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Welfare Capitalism in Taiwan

State, Economy and Social Policy

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  • © 1997

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Authors:
  1. Yeun-wen Ku

    1. Graduate School of Social Policy and Social Work, National Chi-Nan University, Taiwan

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Yeun-wen Ku
      Pages 1-15

  3. State Welfare Development in Taiwan: An Overview of History and Literature

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
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    2. Colonial Taiwan (1895–1945)

      • Yeun-wen Ku
      Pages 19-30

    3. Postwar Taiwan (1945–79)

      • Yeun-wen Ku
      Pages 31-48

    4. Taiwan in Transition (1980–90)

      • Yeun-wen Ku
      Pages 49-63

    5. Issues and Explanations

      • Yeun-wen Ku
      Pages 64-74

  4. Welfare Capitalism in Taiwan: Towards an Integrated Marxist Account

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75
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    2. The Principal Feature of Taiwan’s Capitalist Development

      • Yeun-wen Ku
      Pages 77-120

    3. State Autonomy in Taiwan

      • Yeun-wen Ku
      Pages 121-161

    4. Education, Ideology and Popular Welfare Attitudes

      • Yeun-wen Ku
      Pages 162-199

    5. Class Division, Social Movements, Democratization and State Welfare

      • Yeun-wen Ku
      Pages 200-239

    6. Conclusion

      • Yeun-wen Ku
      Pages 240-246

    7. A Postscript on Taiwanese Welfare Development after 1990

      • Yeun-wen Ku
      Pages 247-249

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 250-279
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This book explores the development of state welfare in Taiwan, focusing on the interconnection between capitalist development and state welfare from 1895 to 1990, using an integrated Marxist perspective to which the capitalist world system, state structure, ideology, and social structure are considered simultaneously. It argues that neither citizenship nor welfare needs were the concern of Taiwanese social policies. A decline in legitimacy and risen social movements forced the state to expand welfare, namely the National Health Insurance, in the 1980s.

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  • Graduate School of Social Policy and Social Work, National Chi-Nan University, Taiwan

    Yeun-wen Ku

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