Global social policy: themes, issues and actors

Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables, Figures and v -- Note on the Contributor -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Part I: Preliminaries -- 1 Approaches to Social Policy: From Social Policy, to Comparative Social Policy to Global Social Policy -- Introduction -- What do we mean by social policy? -- The implications of the issues about defining social policy for global social policy -- The relevance of the development of comparative social policy -- From comparative social policy to global social policy -- The rest of the book -- 2 Social Policy in the Global Age -- Introduction -- From internationalisation to globalisation -- Challenges of economic globalisation in the context of a divided world -- From countries to economic globalisation: a quick overview of neoliberalism -- Neoliberalism: a balance sheet -- Who says inequality is a problem? -- Final considerations -- Part II: Spheres of Action in Global Social Policy -- 3 The Market, Its Main Tenets and Its Global Guardians -- Introduction -- International trade and welfare -- The rise of the transnational corporation (TNC) -- The market, its dominant ideology and our well-being -- 4 The Power of the State and International Organisations -- Introduction -- The United Nations and its agencies -- Global economic management organisations: guardians of the global marketplace? -- Conclusions: the influence of international organisations -- 5 Global Civil Society: New Forms of Participation and Spaces for Change? -- Introduction -- Civil society: the complex history of a concept -- Globalisation and new actors in social policy -- What role for global civil society in social policy? A story of (at least) three answers -- Global social movements advance the policy agenda -- Part III: Issues in Global Social Policy -- 6 Global Poverty -- Introduction.