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Organising Work as Migrant Domestic Workers and Construction Workers in the National Capital Region of India
Exodus of migrant workers from different cities in India has brought the issues of migrant workers into light. The discourse in the public domain...
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Paid–Unpaid Work Continuum of Women: Home-Based Workers and Self-Employed Women in the National Capital Region
Women’s work is a continuum that intersperses productive work with reproductive work, unpaid work with paid work and all kinds of activities with...
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Four Worlds of Latin American Welfare States
There are two ways of studying welfare states, and both have been adopted in Latin America. On the one hand, there is a long tradition of studies...
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Conclusion: Building on Keynes’s Middle Way to Renew the Liberal Tradition and Multilateral System in the 21st Century
This chapter argues that rebalancing liberal economics through the new macroeconomic approach to welfare and institutional economics described in the...
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Potlatch economy: reciprocity among northwest coast Indians
Among the Pacific Northwest Coast Indians of North America before and during the extended era of European contact, a pervasive institution known as...
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The Individual and Society
In this chapter, the authors’ own theoretical foundations are outlined. Their theory of the individual comes from Klaus Holzkamp’s Critical...
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Introduction: The Welfare State as a Social Compromise
It is crucial to define how one understands what a welfare state is, and its primary social significance before we begin discussing the particular...
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Introduction
In the twentieth century traditional alternative to capitalism—socialism—suffered a catastrophic defeat. However, although emancipatory movements...
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Childlessness, childfreeness and compensation
We study the design of a fair family policy in an economy where parenthood is regarded either as desirable or as undesirable, and where there is...
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Crisis and class inequality in Argentina: a new analysis using household survey data
This paper explains how the stagnation and crisis in Argentina (2009–2020) reshaped the standard of living of the working class and how their effects...
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Merit first, need and equality second: hierarchies of justice
The question of “Justice” still divides social research, moral philosophy, and public discourse. Three principles of distributive justice (allocation...
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From Schmoller’s Socialpolitik to Müller-Armack’s Social Market Economy: A Reconstruction of the German Conservative Discourse on the Social Regulation of Capitalist Market Systems
The concept of the social market economy, formulated by German economist Alfred Müller-Armack in the 1940s, reiterates a much older German discourse...
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Completing the Cycle: An Inclusive Capitalism Approach Linking Sustainable Consumption and Production
In this chapter, we present an inclusive capitalism approach, which completes the environmental-production-income and distribution-consumption cycles...
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‘Hel** a Large Number of People Become a Little Less Poor’: The Logic of Survival Entrepreneurs
Survival and growth-oriented entrepreneurs follow qualitatively different logics. In this chapter we retrace the scattered previous theorization of...
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Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Combining Medical and Mental Health Services for Older Adults with HIV in New York City
Older adults with the human immunodeficiency virus or HIV (OAWH), people 50 years and older, are aging with the disease and experience low quality of...
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Science, Technology and Innovation
Science, technology and innovation (STI), targeted to solve both generic and location-specific challenges, are key drivers for transforming agri-food...
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Why Legitimacy Matters: The Institutional Perspective of Educational Decentralisation
This chapter provides some literature reviews on relevant existing studies to identify certain aspects this book should contribute and elaborates the...
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COVID-19 and the burden of ill-health: a double crisis of disruptions and inequalities
In this paper, we attempt to show how the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has disrupted routine health services in India and has created further...
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John A. Weymark
John Weymark’s conversation begins with some biographical remarks. The importance of his undergraduate teachers, notably David Donaldson, for his...
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Homeworkers in Global Supply Chains: Issues and Controversies
The changing patterns of employment in the modern economy have contributed to the accelerated growth of homeworking, and it has become a standard...