Citizenship, Europe and Change [Hardcover]

A set of essays critically assessing aspects of the state's involvement in caring in modern societies, with particular reference to Britain, Japan, the United States, Australia and New Zealand. Paul Close is also the editor of Family and Economy in Modern Society .List of Figures and Tables - Notes on the Contributors - Acknowledgements - Introduction; P.Close - State Care, Control and Contradictions: Theorising Resistance, Change and Progress in Modern Society; P.Close - Pursuing Errant Fathers: Maintenance Systems in Three Western Countries; R.Collins - Born in Poverty: the Social Dimensions of Births Outside Marriage; R.Collins & A.Macleod - Benign or Sinister? Parental Responsibility and State Intervention in Britain; S.Jackson - The State and Social Welfare in Japan: Patterns and Developments; R.Komatsu - The State and the Survivors of Hiroshima; K.Kodama - State Care and Control in Japan: the Employment Guidance and Referral Process for School Leavers; K.Okano - Education and the Facade of Care: an Australian Case Study; E.Hatton - Constructing Social Care: the Australian Dilemma; D.Edgar - Against the Odds: Community Based Care and Psychiatric Disabilities in Britain and New Zealand; J.Leibrich - Bibliography - Index