Risk, Welfare and Work by Jeremy Moss - ISBN: 9780522857917
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In recent years, people’s experience of welfare has undergone dramatic transformation, with the responsibility for managing risk being shifted from state institutions to non-governmental agencies and individuals. In this transformation moral and ethical questions about collective responsibility for …

Risk, Welfare and Work

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  • Paperback

    200 pages

  • Release Date

    15 July 2010

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Summary

In recent decades, people’s experience of welfare has undergone a dramatic transformation, with the responsibility for managing risk increasingly being shifted from state institutions to non-governmental agents, individuals and agencies. Some commentators see this shift as heralding a fundamental transformation of society, while others have pointed to the resilience of the welfare state. In the transformation of the welfare state, moral and ethical questions about collective responsibility fo…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780522857917
ISBN-10:0522857914
Author:Jeremy Moss
Publisher:Melbourne University Press
Imprint:Melbourne University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:200
Release Date:15 July 2010
Weight:450g
Dimensions:211mm x 139mm x 20mm
About The Author

Jeremy Moss

“Dr Greg Marston is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy and Deputy Head of the School of Social Work and Human Services at the University of Queensland. His research interests focus on the intersection of welfare state restructuring, policy implementation and social theory.Jeremy Moss is Director of the Social Justice Initiative at the University of Melbourne. His main research interests are in egalitarian discussions of key topics in political philosophy including equality, climate justice and political obligation. He has been awarded the Eureka Prize for Research in Ethics and the Australasian Association for Philosophy Media Prize.John Quiggin is an Australian Research Council Federation Fellow in Economics and Political Science at the University of Queensland. His other fellowships include the Australian Social Science Academy, the American Agricultural Economics Association and the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society. Professor Quiggin is prominent both as a research economist and as a commentator on Australian economic policy.”

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