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The Wage Earners' Welfare State Revisited

Refurbishing the Established Model of Australian Social Protection, 1983–93

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ID11228397
AuthorsFrancis G Castles (corresponding author)
Year1994
Volume29
Issue2
Pages120-145
Publication date1994-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAustralian Journal of Social Issues (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0157-6321 • E-ISSN: 1839-4655
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/j.1839-4655.1994.tb00939.x
OpenAlexW2261035123
LanguageEN
Citations received63
References cited12

This article sets out to give an overview of the most significant policy changes and developments influencing the development of social protection in Australia in the past decade. Rather than focussing on an assessment of gains and losses within the narrow confines of the state welfare system, it looks at what has happened to the broad configuration of policies which have come to constitute Australia's highly distinctive wage earners' welfare state. Overall, the conclusion is that the institutional forms and normative goals of the wage earner's welfare state have proved far more resilient and adaptable than critics have assumed likely, with targeting, award‐based superannuation and women's welfare singled out as the most interesting areas in which Labor has contributed to the refurbishing of the established model

Economics · Labour economics · Market economy · Normative · Political science · Politics · Project commissioning · Publishing · Social policy · Social Welfare · State (computer science · Wage · Welfare · Welfare state · Employment and Welfare Studies · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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Citations per year2,03
Citation span1995 - 2026 (32)
Citation velocitycurrent
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