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Honouring the Contract
John E. Martin
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Description for Honouring the Contract
Paperback. Honouring the Contract provides a novel perspective on the distinctive foundations of New Zealand's welfare state. It raises issues concerning modern-day concepts of citizenship as the welfare state comes under challenge. Num Pages: 296 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MBN; HBJM; HBLW; HBLX; JKS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 565.
Providing a vital background to some of the pressing issues in contemporary New Zealand politics, this novel perspective on the distinctive foundations of the country’s welfare state raises issues concerning modern-day concepts of citizenship as this welfare state comes under challenge. Government policy has been linked to this evolving social contract between wage earners and the state; With the contract’s genesis in the migration of wage earners from Britain in the 1840s, New Zealand became an experimental laboratory, first promoting settlement of the land, then safeguarding the economic position of the male breadwinner, and—with the emergence of the welfare state ... Read more
Providing a vital background to some of the pressing issues in contemporary New Zealand politics, this novel perspective on the distinctive foundations of the country’s welfare state raises issues concerning modern-day concepts of citizenship as this welfare state comes under challenge. Government policy has been linked to this evolving social contract between wage earners and the state; With the contract’s genesis in the migration of wage earners from Britain in the 1840s, New Zealand became an experimental laboratory, first promoting settlement of the land, then safeguarding the economic position of the male breadwinner, and—with the emergence of the welfare state ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Victoria University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
, New Zealand
ISBN
9780864736345
SKU
V9780864736345
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-18
About John E. Martin
John E. Martin is the parliamentary historian in the Parliamentary Service and the author of The House: New Zealand’s House of Representatives, 1854–2004 and Parliament’s Library.
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