The Nordic welfare states have found themselves in the firing line of post-industrial developments, resulting in fundamental changes and new social needs to attend to. This book explores responses to changing social risks across areas such as structural unemployment, entrepreneurship, immigration, single parenthood, education and health.

1. Introduction: Changing Social Risks and Social Policy Responses in the Nordic Welfare States; Ivan Harsløf and Rickard Ulmestig 2. Changing Population Profiles and Social Risk Structures in the Nordic countries; Ivan Harsløf, Simone Scarpa and Synøve Nygaard Andersen 3. Welfare State Support of Lone Parents: Nordic Approaches to a Complex and Ambiguous Policy Field; Mia Hakovirta, Susan Kuivalainen and Minna Rantalaiho 4. Working Time Policy Change and New Social Risks; Uffe Enokson 5. The Growing Emphasis on Education in the Nordic Social Citizenship: Inducing New Risks While Trying to Alleviate Them; Alexandru Panican 6. Structural Unemployment as a New Social Risk in the Nordic countries: A critical reassessment; Christian Albrekt Larsen 7. Fighting Risks with Risks: Self-Employment and New Social Risks in the Nordic Countries; Rickard Ulmestig 8. Health Capital: New Health Risks and Personal Investments in the Body in the Context of Changing Nordic Welfare States; Kristian Larsen, Malcolm Cutchin and Ivan Harsløf 9. Ethnification of New Social Risks: Programmes for Preparing Newly Arrived Immigrants for (Working) Life in Sweden, Denmark and Norway; Ariana Guilherme Fernandes 10. New Geographically-Differentiated Configurations of Social Risks: Labour Market Policy Developments in Sweden and Finland; Simone Scarpa 11. Liberal Responses to New Social Risks - Danish Experiences from Three Decades of Liberalistic Social Policy Reforms; Iver Hornemann Møller 12. Conclusion: The Take on New Social Risks in the Nordic Welfare States; Rickard Ulmestig and Ivan Harsløf