Marginalized Groups, Inequalities and the Post-War Welfare State: Whose Welfare?

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Examining the ways in which societies treat their most vulnerable members has long been regarded as revealing of the bedrock beliefs and values that guide the social order. However, academic research about the post-war welfare state is often focused on mainstream arrangements or on one social group. With its focus on different marginalized groups: migrants and people with disabilities, this volume offers novel perspectives on the national and international dimensions of the post-war welfare state in Western Europe and North America. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents List of illustrations Figures Table List of contributors Introduction Whose welfare? Marginal groups The lens of inequality New (dis)continuities This volume Notes Chapter 1 Rescuing the European welfare state: The Social Affairs Committee of the early European Communities, 1953–1962 Introduction Building legitimacy for European integration by promoting workers’ welfare, 1953–1955 Lobbying for supranational social policies during the European “relaunch,” 1955–1957 The expansion and limitations of the Social Affairs Committee’s welfare vision, 1958–1962 Conclusion Notes Chapter 2 From territorialized rights to personalized international social rights? The making of the European Convention on the Social Security of Migrant Workers (1957) Introduction The international framing of social security The entrepreneurs of the internationalized social security The European Convention and the connection of the national social security organizations: from “national interests” to personalized international social rights Conclusion Notes Chapter 3 The ILO and the shift toward seconomic liberalization in the international professional rehabilitation policies of people with disabilities after World War II Introduction The institutionalization of a liberal legality in the field of vocational integration for the disabled The exportation of a liberal economic legality in the field of vocational rehabilitation of the disabled in Latin America (1955–beginning of the 1970s) Conclusion Notes Chapter 4 Farewell to social Europe? An entangled perspective on European disability policies in the 1980s and 1990s Introduction A “considerable burden” New awareness The institutionalization of self-advocates Beyond a welfare state perspective? A Europeans with Disabilities Act? Conclusion Notes Chapter 5 The history of a phantom welfare state: The United States Introduction First story: naming the welfare state Second set of stories: conceptual meanings of a welfare state Third set of stories: programmatic parameters Perspectival perception and phantom pains Neoliberal crises The phantom lives Conclusion Notes Chapter 6 Managing the transition from war to peace: Post-war citizenship-based welfare inItaly and France, 1944–1947 Introduction Repatriation in the context of recovery’s ideology Facing the legacies of Mussolini’s war From “rehabilitation” to social services The end of an age of reforms and their legacies Notes Chapter 7 Disabled citizens and the neoliberal turn in Britain: Whose rights and whose responsibilities? Introduction Antecedents: the British welfare state and disability The official response: charitable action and “we have to do something” The grassroots response The right to work and independent living, and their neoliberal incarnations Epilogue Notes Chapter 8 Welfare: defended, questioned, complemented? Belgian welfare arrangements in the 1970s–1980s from the perspective of disability organizations Introduction The specificities of the Belgian welfare context An uncertain change of heart – after 1973 A paradoxical state – after 1981 Notes Chapter 9 A new inequality in the Danish welfare state: The development of immigration and integration policy in post-war Denmark Introduction Immigration and welfare state development Labour immigration in the period of welfare expansion Social rights in times of economic crisis Immigrants, refugees and the normative crisis of the welfare state Integration and welfare reforms Conclusion Notes Conclusion: Beyond citizenship and “responsibilization” in the exclusionary welfare state: realizing universal human rights through social resilience-building and interactional justice? Introduction Two normative eligibility conflicts in the realization of socio-economic human rights Two proposals for more inclusive social policy Conclusion Notes Index