Globalization and welfare : a critical reader

The roll-back of the welfare state in advanced industrial democracies is often justified as the inevitable consequence of economic globalization.

This reader provides a collection of inter-disciplinary essays by sixteen leading scholars in the field that rebuke the 'inevitability thesis' on welfare state restructuration. Organized in four section - citizenship and global governance, regulating global capital, re-politicizing the retreat of the state and governmentality and the micro-politics of welfare reform - this volume also includes an original essay by the editor assessing the state of critical scholarship on globalization and welfare.