Abstract
All Western industrialised nations are today facing similar difficulties in providing the range and standard of social welfare services expected by the public. There are two main reasons for these problems: the increase in life expectancy and the important decline in infant mortality, which have resulted in longer periods of dependency and created new needs; and the development of a new conception of physical, mental, social and moral well-being, which has come to be considered as a basic social value. Technological progress and political pressures have fostered expectations to a point where every member of society is given to believe that he is entitled to demand and receive the highest standard of protection and care, or of social security,1 as a basic human right.
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Bibliographical guidance
General works examining the growth of social welfare services and of the French social security system :
Documentation Française, La Sécurité sociale en France (Paris: Documentation Française, 1975)
J. Doublet, Sécurité sociale, 5th ed. (Paris: PUF, 1972)
H. Hatzfield, Du Paupérisme à la sécurité sociale: essai sur les origines de la sécurité sociale en France, 1850–1940 (Paris: Colin, 1971)
R. Jambu-Merlin, La Sécurité sociale (Paris: Colin, 1970)
Critical appraisals of social policy in France:
J.-M. Belorgey, La Politique sociale (Paris: Seghers, 1976)
‘Quelle sécurité sociale?’, Courrier de la République, 107 (July 1974)
X. Greife, La Politique sociale: étude critique (Paris: PUF, 1975)
P. Hermand, L’Avenir de la sécurité sociale (Paris: Seuil, 1967)
B. Lory, La Politique d’action sociale (Toulouse: Privat, 1975)
‘La santé des Français’, Supplément au Monde dossiers et documents (Nov 1979)
‘Perspectives de la sécurité sociale’, Revue française des affaires sociales, special issue, 2 vols (July-Sep 1976)
Social welfare as a redistributive mechanism :
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Les Inégalités sociales: situations, mécanismes, actions correctrices (Paris: Editions du CNRS, 1977)
J.-C. Colli, L’Inégalité par l’argent (Paris: Gallimard, 1975)
L. Fabius, La France inégale (Paris: Hachette, 1975)
P.-A. Mercier, Les Inégalités en France (Paris: CREDOC, 1974)
Reviews:
Up-to-date information about present trends and studies of specific areas of social policy are included in different editions of Données sociales and the quarterly publication Revue française des affaires sociales.
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Hantrais, L. (1982). Social Welfare. In: Contemporary French Society. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-86105-7_4
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