The rollback of the welfare state in advanced industrial democracies is often justified as the inevitable consequence of economic globalization. This reader provides a collection of inter-disciplinary essays by sixteen leading scholars in the field that rebuke the 'inevitability thesis' on welfare state restructuration.

'With a genuinely insightful introduction, Ritu Vij has brought together a classic set of readings ... A judicious and radical collection which is likely to become a standard reference point for anyone interested in the state of welfare and the welfare state under conditions of contemporary globalization.' - Professor Anthony McGrew, Head of School, School of Social Sciences, Southampton University, UK

'The book is an important statement about what has happened to the welfare state throughout the last generation of politically-inspired globalization.' - Craig N. Murphy, M. Margaret Ball Professor of International Relations, Wellesley College, USA

'...this collection facilitates a productive engagement with critical perspectives on social protection and suggests avenues for the future development of critical scholarship on globalization and welfare.' - International Social Security Review

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GOSTA ESPING-ANDERSEN Professor, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain TERESA BRENNAN Formerly Schmidt Distinguished Professor of Humanities, Florida Atlantic University, USA RICHARD A. CLOWARD Formerly Professor in the School of Social Work, Columbia University, USA MITCHELL DEAN Dean, Division of Society, Culture, Media and Philosophy and Professor, Department of Sociology, Macquaire University, Sydney, Australia GEOFFREY GARRETT President of the Pacific Council on International Policy and Professor of International Relations, University of Southern California, USA COLIN HAY Professor of Political Analysis and Head of Department, Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham, UK BOB JESSOP Professor and Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies, Lancaster University, UK STEPHAN LEIBFRIED Professor, Graduate School of Social Sciences, University of Bremen, Germany CLAUS OFFE Formerly Professor of Political Sociology, Humboldt University, Germany JAMIE PECK Professor of Geography, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA PAUL PIERSON Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, USA FRANCES FOX PIVEN Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology, City University of New York, USA ELMAR RIEGER Associate Professor, Centre for Social Policy, University of Bremen, Germany NIKOLAS ROSE Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK SANFORD F. SCHRAM Lecturer, Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research, Bryn Mawr College, USA LYNNE SEGAL Anniversary Professor of Psychology and Gender Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK BRYAN S. TURNER Professor of Sociology, Asian Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Professorial Research Associate at the School of Oriental and Asian Studies, University of London, UK and Honorary Professor of Deakin University, Australia NICOLA YEATES Senior Lecturer, Social Policy, Open University, UK

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Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: CITIZENSHIP AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE The Erosion of Citizenship; B.S.Turner The Sustainability of Welfare: States into the Twenty-First Century; G.Esping-Andersen Social Politics and Policy in an Era of Globalization: Critical Reflections; N.Yeates PART II: REGULATING GLOBAL CAPITAL Some Contradictions of the Welfare State; C.Offe The Normalizing Role of Rationalist Assumptions in the Institutional Embedding of Neoliberalism; C.Hay The Transition to Post-Fordism and the Schumpeterian Workfare State; B.Jessop Welfare State Limits to Globalization; E.Rieger & S.Leibfried Which Third Way?; T.Brennan PART III: RE-POLITICIZING THE RETREAT OF THE STATE The New Politics of the Welfare State; P.Pierson Shrinking States? Globalization and National Autonomy in the OECD; G.Garrett Eras of Power; F.Fox Piven & R.A.Cloward Subject to Suspicion: Feminism and Anti-Statism in Britain; L.Segal PART IV: GOVERNMENTALITY AND THE MICRO-POLITICS OF WELFARE REFORM The Death of the Social? Re-Figuring the Territory of Government ; N.Rose Governing the Unemployed Self in an Active Society; M.Dean Compliant Subjects for a New World Order: Globalization and the Behaviour Modification Regime of Welfare Reform; S.F.Schram Political Economies of Scale: Fast Policy, Interscalar Relations, and Neoliberal Workfare; J.Peck REFERENCES