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Weighing Up Australian Values
Balancing Transitions and Risks to Work and Family in Modern Australia
Brian Howe
Livre broché | Anglais
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Description
Over the past 30 years, Australia has experienced ongoing economic and social change. During this time, many Australians might have felt liberated by the freer economic and social environment. At the same time, though, many more Australians have felt their lives becoming more precarious and come to see themselves in danger of social exclusion. greater sense of risk and suggests some positive new directions in social policy designed to anticipate and help people address risk. The book does not identify 'risk' as a negative; instead it argues that converting risk into opportunity requires a co-ordinated policy response. responsibility and morality in much of contemporary social policy discourse. He argues that society needs to give more attention to anticipating risks as they emerge for people across the life course, and governments should be developing policy responses that will enable people to convert risk into opportunity. sovereignty' - that is the capacity of people to bank time so that they can vary their work commitments in the light of caring responsibilities, their need for further education and training or because they may at certain periods be carrying more community leadership responsibility. It is a book of big ideas such as the need for 'learning accounts', as well as new institutional arrangements that help people to manage difficult transitions in life.
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- Nombre de pages :
- 207
- Langue:
- Anglais
Caractéristiques
- EAN:
- 9780868408859
- Date de parution :
- 01-03-07
- Format:
- Livre broché
- Format numérique:
- Trade paperback (VS)
- Dimensions :
- 165 mm x 231 mm
- Poids :
- 317 g
