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Informationen zum Autor Timothy Smith is Associate Professor of History at Queen's University, Ontario where he teaches Modern European history, comparative public policy and the history of globalization. His previous publications include Creating the Welfare State in France, 1880–1940 (2003). Klappentext Timothy Smith argues that the French economic and social model is imploding on itself despite good intentions. Bad policies and vested interests that exploit the rhetoric of "solidarity" and the specter of globalization have prevented necessary changes from being effected. Making frequent comparisons with the U.S.! U.K.! Canada! Scandinavia! Germany and the Netherlands! Smith argues that change need not follow the inegalitarian U.S. or British paths in order to lead to a more balanced French society. Zusammenfassung France is in crisis. In this provocative book! Timothy Smith argues that the French economic and social model is collapsing inward on itself! the result of good intentions! bad policies! and vested interests who employ the rhetoric of 'solidarity' and the specter of globalization to prevent change. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. The misunderstood French welfare state; 2. Corporatist welfare states: the residue of the past, or the wave of the future?; 3. The 'treason of the intellectuals': globalization as the big excuse for France's economic and social problems; 4. France's break with socialism; 5. Persisting inequalities; 6. The protected people; 7. The excluded: immigrants, youth, women; 8. The French exception; Index.
