The New Insecurity by Jerald Wallulis
But Wallulis also makes the case that the envied security of past generations did not depend on their prospects for long-term, full-time employment alone. It was also made possible by the development of social insurance programs designed to provide protection against unemployment, disability, and old-age indigency. This book emphasizes the contribution of the "insurance state" to the achievement of individual security and explores how programs of income assistance could protect the individual against the strong income fluctuations so prevalent in the new job market."The New Insecurity identifies issues that are really central to today's society, particularly American society, and hence also to social criticismWallulis's book is the Dilbert phenomenon in of course much greater depth, with interesting historical background, elaborated with the assistance of techniques taken from Foucault, and with additional tie-ins with the situation of the contemporary family. It is in fact an in-depth look at the novel, and in some respects frightening, structures of everyday life into which our society has been descending over the past twenty years or so." — William L. McBride, Purdue University
Jerald Wallulis is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina. He is coeditor of Changing Social Science: Critical Theory and Other Critical Perspectives, also published by SUNY Press, and author of The Hermeneutics of Life History: Personal Achievement and History in Gadamer, Habermas, and Erikson.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780791436554 |
| ISBN 10 | 0791436551 |
| Title | The New Insecurity |
| Author | Jerald Wallulis |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | State University of New York Press |
| Year published | 1997-12-05 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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