79104 - Sem. Welfare State: Developments and Current Issues

Academic Year 2017/2018

  • Docente: Fabio Nuti Giovanetti
  • Credits: 3
  • SSD: SECS-P/01
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Job and company relations consultant (cod. 0915)

Learning outcomes

The seminar reviews the history of Welfare State in the most important European countries and USA, and analyses the problems which characterize the main sectors of this institution, putting particular emphasis on the contrast between the orthodox approach and the Neo-Liberist view, which dominates the field nowadays.

Course contents

WHEN:

THURSDAY & FRIDAY, 11-13, starting April 12th until May 18th

WHERE:

ROOM NO.1, VIA ZAMBONI 22

 

State Intervention in the Economy and Society

Early Interventions in Welfare

Poverty and the Industrial Revolution

Build-up, Birth and Evolution of Welfare in UK and Germany

Italy

Health & Hygiene

Education

Pensions and Social Insurance

The Alternative View: Liberism

Recent Developments & Future Perspectives


Readings/Bibliography

Bibliographic suggestions will be provided according to the development of the programme.

Teaching methods

Lectures, followed by discussion

Assessment methods

Short essay in a topic selected freely, with the help of the lecturer

 

Teaching tools

Slides available at AMSCampus

Office hours

See the website of Fabio Nuti Giovanetti