Dear Colleagues,
I hope my new book entitled 'Property, Family and the Irish Welfare State' will be of interest to some of you. It is the first major text on the Irish welfare state to be published since the 1990s and presents an original analysis of this case which contests the conventional treatment of Ireland in the literature.
The book contests the consensus view that Ireland, like other Anglophone countries, has historically operated a liberal, commodified welfare regime. Drawing on a longitudinal analysis of Irish social policy since in the late 19th Century, this book argues that rather than developing weakly the Irish welfare state developed differently from most other Western European countries until recent decades. Ireland’s welfare state was shaped by the power of small farmers, Catholic social teaching and the needs of a primarily agricultural economy. Thus social policies in Ireland were intended to support a rural, agrarian and familist social order rather than an urban working class and industrialised economy which were the focus of welfare systems in most other developed countries.
The book is published by Palgrave Macmillan and details are available on this link: http://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783319445663
Happy Christmas to everyone and here's hoping that 2017 is less depressing than 2016!
Michelle
Dr Michelle Norris
Head of School
School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice
Hanna Sheehy Skeffington Building
University College Dublin.
W: http://www.ucd.ie/research/people/socialpolicysocialworksocialjustice/drmichellenorris/
T: +353)(1)7168203.
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