Welfare Reform in East Asia: Towards Workfare Contributor(s): Kwan Chan, Chak (Editor), Ngok, Kinglun (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415728371 ISBN-13: 9780415728379 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $52.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2013 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Public Policy - Social Policy - Political Science | Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General |
Dewey: 362.584 |
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 6.13" W x 9.19" (0.74 lbs) 188 pages |
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Publisher Description: In many Western countries, social welfare payments are increasingly being made conditional on recipients doing voluntary work or attending job training courses, a system known as welfare-to-work or workfare. Although social welfare in Asia is very different to the West, with much smaller social welfare budgets, a strong self-reliance and a much higher dependency on family networks to provide support, the workfare approach is also being adopted in many Asian countries. This is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of how welfare reform around work is implemented in leading East Asian. Based on the experiences of seven East Asian economies - including China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong and Macau - this book critically analyses current trends; the social, economic and political factors which lead to the implementation of workfare; compares the similarities and differences of workfare in the different polities and assesses their effectiveness. |