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Old-Age Security in Comparative Perspective.

This book examines a central element of social welfare, old age security, exploring history of policies in both developed and underdeveloped countries to assess their structure, ideology and effectiveness. The authors test five theoretical perspectives on old-age security policy in four industrial nations (the United States, United Kingdom, Sweden, Germany) and three developing countries (India, Nigeria, Brazil), challenging view that old age policy is outcome of class conflict between capital and labour. Instead, authors adopt a neo-pluralist perspective which emphasizes influence of ethnic r…