Citizenship, Europe and Change

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction

   • Paul Close

   Pages 1-9

3. State Care, Control and Contradictions: Theorizing Resistance, Change and Progress in Modern Society

   • Paul Close

   Pages 10-71

4. Pursuing Errant Fathers: Maintenance Systems in Three Western Countries

   • Rosemary Collins

   Pages 72-85

5. Born in Poverty: The Social Dimensions of Births Outside Marriage

   • Rosemary Collins, Alison Macleod

   Pages 86-107

6. Benign or Sinister? Parental Responsibility and State Intervention in Britain

   • Sonia Jackson

   Pages 108-127

7. The State and Social Welfare in Japan: Patterns and Developments

   • Ryuji Komatsu

   Pages 128-147

8. The State and the Survivors of Hiroshima

   • Katsuya Kodama

   Pages 148-161

9. State Care and Control in Japan: The Employment Guidance and Referral Process for Secondary School Leavers

   • Kaori Okano

   Pages 162-185

10. Education and the Facade of Care: An Australian Case Study

    • Elizabeth Hatton

    Pages 186-203

11. Constructing Social Care: The Australian Dilemma

    • Don Edgar

    Pages 204-213

12. Against the Odds: Community Based Care for Psychiatric Disabilities in Britain and New Zealand

    • Julie Leibrich

    Pages 214-231

13. Back Matter

    Pages 232-251

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A set of essays critically assessing aspects of the state's involvement in caring in modern societies, with particular reference to Britain, Japan, the United States, Australia and New Zealand. Paul Close is also the editor of "Family and Economy in Modern Society".

• education
• employment
• intervention

• Derbyshire College of Higher Education, UK

  Paul Close

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