Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (vi, 131 pages)
,
illustrations
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
DDC:
305.23
Keywords:
Civil society
;
Human capital
;
Children Social conditions
;
Capitalism
;
Welfare state
Abstract:
"In this work, John O'Neill expands the economist's concept of human capital to include health, education, and other social transfers that enrich civic capital, and thereby underwrite childhood, family, and community life. This concept of human capital is shown to be at the political core of capitalist societies in North America and Europe whose welfare regimes are continuously contested yet are intrinsic to ideals of citizenship and social justice."--Jacket
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: The Civic Way: Beyond Left and Right?Civic Capitalism -- Family Capital and Child Formation -- Child Poverty and the New Household -- Community Capital and Family Disinvestment -- Civic Education -- Human Capital Theory -- Civic Capital Theory -- Learning in a Civic Society -- Beyond the Class War -- The Civic State -- The Market and the New Meritocracy -- The Intelligent Welfare State -- Three Degrees of Welfare (Class, Status, and Citizenship) -- Civic Childhood -- Standard Childhoods -- Children Are Civic Subjects -- The Civic Gift -- The New Stigma of Poverty -- The Citizen's Gift -- Conclusion: A Child's Guide to Capitalism -- Child Capitalism -- Civic Childhood.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [111]-126) and index
DOI:
10.3138/9781442628014
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