ABSTRACT
Social policy in modern industrialised societies is increasingly challenged by new social risks. These include insecure employment resulting from ever more volatile labour markets, new family and gender relationships resulting from the growing participation of women in the labour market, and the many problems resulting from very much longer human life expectancy. Whereas once social policy had to be in step with a standardised, relatively stable and predictable life course, it now has to cope with non-standardised individual preferences, life courses and families, and the consequent increased risks and uncertainties. This book examines these new life courses and their impact on social policy across a range of East Asian societies. It shows how governments and social welfare institutions have been slow to respond to the new challenges. In response, we propose a life-course sensitised policy as an approach to manage these risks. Overall, the book provides many new insights which will assist advance social policy in East Asia.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|54 pages
Changes in transitions
chapter 2|17 pages
Extended transitions to adulthood in Japan
chapter 3|18 pages
Social policies addressing the transition from school to work of post-secondary graduates in Taiwan
chapter 4|17 pages
Will dreams come true?
part II|55 pages
Competing demands
chapter 6|17 pages
The double responsibilities of care in Japan
part III|69 pages
Alternative ways of living
chapter 9|18 pages
The material contradictions of proletarian patriarchy in South Korea's condensed capitalist industrialization
part IV|18 pages
Towards a life-course sensitized social policy