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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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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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State Welfare Development in Taiwan: An Overview of History and Literature
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Front Matter
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Welfare Capitalism in Taiwan: Towards an Integrated Marxist Account
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Back Matter
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Yuen-Wen Ku
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Welfare Capitalism in Taiwan
Book Subtitle: State, Economy and Social Policy
Authors: Yeun-wen Ku
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230377875
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1997
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-312-17416-3Published: 12 October 1997
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-37787-5Published: 04 August 1997
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 279
Topics: Regional/Spatial Science, Social Care, Political Science, Social Policy