這是一門博士班的討論課程，主要內容聚焦在貧窮、失業、就業相關議題及勞動市場政策、家庭政策與社會政策。後工業化、全球化帶來工作模式的變遷、貧富差距擴大、失業與低薪工作的增加，於是，新貧、工作貧窮被認為是後工業國家必須面對的新社會風險。其中兒童貧窮、青年失業、單親家庭受到各國的關切。
This seminar is about the relationships between work, poverty and social policy. All welfare states in the post-industrial world have had to respond to changes in patterns of employment at the same time as a general trend towards increasing income inequalities and poverty prevails in many countries, where child poverty and working poor recently has been paid closer attention due to the potential adverse consequences for well-being of children, youth as well as for their market prospects.
This purpose of this course is to analyze structures, determinants and outcomes of social policy legislation in post-war welfare democracies from a macro-sociological and institutional perspective. A main question is to what extent the motives of different active labour market policies (ALMPs), family policy institutions can be linked to childbearing, women’s work, child poverty, in-work poverty, and gender role attitudes.
The basic format of this seminar will be lecture, presentations and discussion. The instructor will review the theoretical explanation for the working poor, ALMPs and family policy and demonstrate some comparative studies in social policy. Students will be expected to present and discuss their paper in class in the late weeks. Papers should be 15-20 pages and the due on the last day of class.