The rollback of the welfare state in advanced industrial democracies is often justified as the inevitable consequence of economic globalization. This reader provides a collection of inter-disciplinary essays by sixteen leading scholars in the field that rebuke the 'inevitability thesis' on welfare state restructuration.

Brings together key writings since the 1990s from a range of leading scholars, including Mitchell Dean, Bob Jessop, Colin Hay and Nikolas Rose

Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: CITIZENSHIP AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE The Erosion of Citizenship; B.S.Turner The Sustainability of Welfare: States into the Twenty-First Century; G.Esping-Andersen Social Politics and Policy in an Era of Globalization: Critical Reflections; N.Yeates PART II: REGULATING GLOBAL CAPITAL Some Contradictions of the Welfare State; C.Offe The Normalizing Role of Rationalist Assumptions in the Institutional Embedding of Neoliberalism; C.Hay The Transition to Post-Fordism and the Schumpeterian Workfare State; B.Jessop Welfare State Limits to Globalization; E.Rieger & S.Leibfried Which Third Way?; T.Brennan PART III: RE-POLITICIZING THE RETREAT OF THE STATE The New Politics of the Welfare State; P.Pierson Shrinking States? Globalization and National Autonomy in the OECD; G.Garrett Eras of Power; F.Fox Piven & R.A.Cloward Subject to Suspicion: Feminism and Anti-Statism in Britain; L.Segal PART IV: GOVERNMENTALITY AND THE MICRO-POLITICS OF WELFARE REFORM The Death of the Social? Re-Figuring the Territory of Government ; N.Rose Governing the Unemployed Self in an Active Society; M.Dean Compliant Subjects for a New World Order: Globalization and the Behaviour Modification Regime of Welfare Reform; S.F.Schram Political Economies of Scale: Fast Policy, Interscalar Relations, and Neoliberal Workfare; J.Peck REFERENCES