11 ONE Economic crisis, work–life balance and class Tracey Warren1 Introduction Labour market evidence suggests that the 2008–09 recession and subsequent on-going economic crisis in the UK have led to a reduction in the proportion of workers reporting over-long working hours and an expansion in work-time underemployment (Bell and Blanchflower, 2013, 2011). The study of ‘work–life’ balance has a long-standing interest in the impact of work-time and work-time preferences on work–life imbalance. This interest has largely concentrated on work- time
The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must. Thucydides, 431 BC Introduction This chapter examines the COVID-19 economic crisis, an economic shock of rare and extreme impact. COVID-19 has had a devastating impact on the world economy with huge reductions in productivity and national income, and record levels of unemployment (for example and 5.2 million people filed for unemployment benefit in just one week in April 2020 in the US). It is widely feared that the economic impact will be far greater than that of the global financial
21 TWO Spain: leave policy in times of economic crisis1 Gerardo Meil, Pedro Romero-Balsas and Jesús Rogero-García Introduction This chapter analyses developments in leave policy between 2007 and 2017 in Spain, focusing on political debate, legislative measures and take-up rates. Most of this period was characterised by a severe economic crisis that ultimately prompted a political crisis, in which an imperfect two-party system gave way to a multi-party system with no party having a clear parliamentary majority. It was, then, a period of intense economic
119 SEVEN South Korea after the 1997 economic crisis: a ‘paradigm shift’? Eunna Lee-Gong Introduction The modern Western welfare state has its roots in the notion of an entitlement deriving from the citizenship model as expounded by T.H. Marshall (1950). What thereby becomes a social right to welfare has deeply influenced the development of welfare systems in Western countries, although different countries have established different national standards of social rights and these have been expressed through different programmes (Marshall, 1950; Esping
81 FIVE Global social policy responses to the economic crisis Bob Deacon Introduction: discursive struggle matters in global social policy Global social policy (GSP) studies has emphasised the contest and conflict regarding advice given to countries about their social policy by a diverse range of global players, including intergovernmental organisations. Thus: The ideas about desirable national social policy carried and argued for by the international organisations … reveals something approaching a ‘war of position’ between those agencies … who have
Policy & Politics vol 31 no 1 69 © The Policy Press, 2003 • ISSN 0305 5736 Key words: Korea • welfare reform • advocacy coalitions Policy & Politics vol 31 no 1 69–83 Final submission 18 April 2002 • Acceptance 19 July 2002 English This article seeks to explain the politics of social policy in Korea after the economic crisis of 1997/ 98, focusing on the advocacy coalitions. It shows that the welfare idealists were able to succeed in introducing the Minimum Living Standard Guarantee (MLSG) by seizing a number of strategic points of decision making in Korea
565 Policy & Politics • vol 42 • no 4 • 565-80 • © Policy Press 2014 • #PPjnl @policy_politics Print ISSN 0305 5736 • Online ISSN 1470 8442 • http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/030557312X655774 Women’s pensions in the European Union and the current economic crisis Liam Foster, l.foster@sheffield.ac.uk University of Sheffield, UK The current financial and economic crisis has serious implications for the underlying ageing challenge. It has demonstrated weaknesses in the design and long-term sustainability of numerous pension schemes. While many EU countries have
231 THIRTEEN Social policy and the recent economic crisis in Canada and the United States Daniel Béland and Alex Waddan Introduction The economic crisis that manifested itself in 2008 in the United States (US) also had serious consequences in Canada, a country that has strong economic ties with its powerful southern neighbour. From a social policy standpoint, these countries also have a lot in common in as much as both are considered to be liberal welfare regimes featuring limited public support in at least some policy areas, with an extensive role for
339 Critical and Radical Social Work • vol 3 • no 3 • 339–55 • © Policy Press 2015 • #CRSW Print ISSN 2049 8608 • Online ISSN 2049 8675 • http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/204986015X14392797857418 article Chicken or egg? Global economic crisis or ideological retrenchment from welfare in three European countries Dawn Judd, dbjudd1@yahoo.co.uk University of Central Lancashire, UK Jurgen Boeckh, j.boeckh@ostfalia.de Ostfalia University of Applied Social Sciences, Germany Aase Mygind Madsen, aam@viauc.dk VIA University, Denmark As welfare states confront massive
181 TEN Ireland and the impact of the economic crisis: upholding the dominant policy paradigm Mairéad Considine and Fiona Dukelow Introduction Ireland represents one of the more extreme cases of economic damage in the global economic crisis. The country became the first in the euro area to enter recession and, over the period 2008 to 2010, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) declined by about 11%. Ireland’s banking crisis is, along with Iceland’s, one of the largest of the advanced economies and the country also had the largest current deficit in the European
