Restructuring Welfare Policy by Means of Privatization

This article deals with privatization, combining viewpoints presented both in critical discourses of the welfare state and in the debate on marginalization and the crisis of labour society. Privatization is currently gaining ground in the welfare state. The welfare state, then, is in crisis, whether...

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Published inActa Sociologica Vol. 29; no. 3; pp. 255 - 264
Main Author Vettenranta, Jari
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Thousand Oaks, CA Universitetsforlaget 01.01.1986
Sage Publications
Munksgaard
Subjects
Capitalism
Crises
Economic growth
Labor unions
Policymaking
Political Action
Private Sector
Privatization
Public sector
Public services
Public welfare
Research Note
Right and Left
Service contracts
Social and economic security
Social movements
Social policy
Social services
Strategies
Unemployment
Welfare State
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Summary:This article deals with privatization, combining viewpoints presented both in critical discourses of the welfare state and in the debate on marginalization and the crisis of labour society. Privatization is currently gaining ground in the welfare state. The welfare state, then, is in crisis, whether considered from the point of view of private capital, the welfare citizen, or its own inner logic. The mobilization strategy outline at the end of the article is a political solution to the contradictions of the welfare state, much in the same way as the welfare state was a political solution to the problems of capitalist society. In both, the structures that generate the contradictions remain intact.
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ISSN:0001-6993
1502-3869
2067-3809
DOI:10.1177/000169938602900305