In recent years, major social forces such as: ageing populations, social trends, migration patterns, and the globalization of economies, have reshaped social welfare policies and practices across the globe. Multinational corporations, NGOs, and other international organizations have begun to influence social policy at a national and local level. Among the many ramifications of these changes is that globalizing influences may hinder the ability of individual nation-states to effect policies that are beneficial to them on a local level. With contributions from thirteen countries worldwide, this collected work represents the first major comparative analysis on the effect of globalization on the international welfare state. The Welfare State in Post-Industrial Society is divided into two major sections: the first draws from a number of leading social welfare researchers from diverse countries who point to the nation-state as case studies; highlighting how it goes about establishing and revising social welfare provisions. The second portion of the volume then moves to a more global perspective in its analysis and questioning of the impact of globalization on citizenship, ageing and marketization. The Welfare State in Post-Industrial Society seeks to encourage debate about the implications of the most pressing social welfare issues in nation-states, and integrate analyses of policy and practice in particular countries struggling to provide social welfare support for their needy populations.
Professor Jason L. Powell Ph.D works at University of Central Lancashire, UK. In 2012-2013, Prof. Powell also holds a Distinguished Visiting Research Fellowship at The University of Oxford. Previously, he was a Reader, Executive Director of Knowledge Exchange, and Associate Dean of Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and Associate Dean of Faculty of Social and Environmental Studies at The University of Liverpool. Formerly, he was Associate Head of School and Director of Admissions at University of Salford.
He has strong interests in ageing, social theory, social policy, globalization, and social welfare and extends to analysing comparative ageing especially in China, US and UK. He also has an interest in the powerful work of Michel Foucault. Prof. Powell has published over 200+ publications in the past 10 years including over thirty books such as Social Theory and Aging (2005) which was part of Charles Lemert's 'New Social Formations' book series at Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham. He has also published in top journals such as British Journal of Healthcare Management; China Journal of Social Work; Asian Journal of Social Policy; and Journal of Applied Gerontology. Prof. Powell and Associates won acclaim for an article in the the prestigious 'Highly Commended Article of the Year Award' (2008) in International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy on risk and old age in western modernity.
Prof. Powell is Executive Editor of international journal of 'Illness, Crisis and Loss' for Baywood Publishers in US. He has served on over 80 editorial boards in international journals across the world and is Associate Editor of The Canadian Journal of Sociology He has been a Guest Editor of Aging International that is based at The Harvard Medical School, Harvard University in North America. Dr Powell is also Series Editor with Professor Sheying Chen on 'International Aging' for Springer publishers in New York.
