Governing Social Protection in the Long Term

This open access book examines the comparative evolution of social protection in Australia and New Zealand from 1890 to the present day, focusing on the relationship between employment relations and social policy. Utilising longstanding and more recent developments in historical institutionalist methodology, Ramia investigates the relationship between these two policy domains in the context of social protection theory. He argues that treating employment relations as dynamic, and as inextricably intertwined with changes in the welfare state over time, allows for more accurate portrayal of similarity and difference in social protection.

The book will be of most interest to researchers, advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students in social policy, employment relations, public policy, social and political history, and comparative politics.

Makes the case for a more holistic concept of social protection that gives equal weight to both social security/welfare and employment relations/industrial relations Analyses how the international and local policy literatures portray Australia and New Zealand as social protection regimes in different periods Traces developments to the present day and accounts for the hitherto separate literatures of employment relations and social policy, while also considering scholarship which is blind to the disciplinary divide.

Autorentext

Gaby Ramia is Associate Professor in Public Policy at the University of Sydney, Australia, and Visiting Professorial Fellow at the Research Institute of the University of Bucharest, Romania.

Inhalt

1. Governing the Work-Welfare Relationship.- 2. A Relationship Dominated by Employment Relations. - 3. Consolidating the Relationship. - 4. Complicating the Relationship. - 5. Restructuring the Relationship.- 6. Meeting in the Middle.- 7. International Implications.