The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Centre for Population Change are hosting a seminar by Bernd Marin from the European Centre for Social Welfare, Policy and Research. All are welcome to attend.
The seminar will be held on 3 July 2014 at 3pm in Building 54/8033 (8B), Highfield Campus.
This seminar will present the findings of the ground-breaking book, “Welfare in an Idle Society? Reinventing Retirement, Work, Wealth, Health and Welfare”, that demonstrates how countries are addressing population-ageing challenges.
The book offers a broad social science study in political economy and sociology, not an economic analysis. Though focusing on pensions, the analysis included in the book centres on the (im)balance between work and non-work, issues of health, work ability, employability, and benefit receipt from old-age security to disability allowance.
The seminar will be placed within the context of the modern welfare state being one of the greatest achievements of the post-war 20th century. With its key aims of eradicating the five giant social ills of “Want, Ignorance, Disease, Squalor and Idleness”, it has aimed to provide a minimum standard of living, with all people of working age paying a weekly contribution; in return, benefits would be paid to anyone who was sick, unemployed, retired or widowed.
Further information is available at: http://www.cpc.ac.uk/seminars/?link=home.php&id=142