AuthorEstevez-Abe, Margarita, 1962-
TitleWelfare and capitalism in postwar Japan / Margarita Estevez-Abe
Imprint Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008
Edition 1st ed
Descript xv, 340 p. : illustrations ; 24 cm

CONTENT

Rashomon: the Japanese welfare state in a comparative perspective -- Structural logics of welfare politics -- Historical patterns of structural logic in postwar Japan -- The rise of the Japanese social protection system in the 1950s -- Economic growth and Japan's selective welfare expansion -- Institutional complemetarities and the Japanese welfare capitalism -- The emergence of trouble in the 1970s -- Policy shifts in the 1990s: the emergence of European-style welfare politics -- The end of Japan's social protection as we know it: becoming like Britain?


SUBJECT

  1. economic conditions
  2. social welfare
  3. Japan -- Economic conditions
  4. Public welfare -- Japan -- History
  5. Welfare state -- Japan

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