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« In social matters, the central concept today is much more that of precariousness, or vulnerability, than that of risk. »
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Pierre Rosanvallon
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Pierre Rosanvallon
The New Social Question: Rethinking the Welfare State
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« The simple distinctions between the sick or disabled and the healthy, the working and unemployed, the active and the retired presupposed that all individuals were at similar risk. The implicit principle of justice and solidarity that underpinned the welfare state was based on the idea that risks were both equally distributed and largely random in nature. It is clear that this is no longer the case today. »
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Pierre Rosanvallon
The New Social Question: Rethinking the Welfare State |
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Pierre Rosanvallon
The New Social Question: Rethinking the Welfare State
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« The revolutionary public relief legislation presupposed that there were only two categories of adults concerned: the disabled who could not work and the able-bodied who could not find work. They did not imagine for a moment that a man with a job could have such a low level of income that he could almost be considered a destitute. However, it is this phenomenon, reproduced on a large scale, that is discovered in the 19th century. »
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Pierre Rosanvallon
The New Social Question: Rethinking the Welfare State |
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Pierre Rosanvallon
The New Social Question: Rethinking the Welfare State
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