Weighing Up Australian Values - Howe, Brian

Résumé :
Explains why so many Australians feel a greater sense of risk and suggests some positive directions in social policy designed to anticipate and help people address risk. This book does not identify 'risk' as a negative; instead it argues that converting risk into opportunity requires a co-ordinated policy response.

Biographie:
Brian Howe AM was Deputy Prime Minister of Australia (1991 - 1995) and was one of only four ministers who served continuously in the Hawke and Keating Ministries from 1983 to 1996. He is now a Professorial Associate in the Centre for Public Policy at the University of Melbourne.

Sommaire:
Acknowledgments; Foreword by Gunther Schmid; 1 Introduction; 2 Social policy and transitional labour markets; 3 Transitions in life and work in Australia; 4 Managing risk in work and family life; 5 Managing time across the life course; 6 Investing in people: Building Australia's skills; 7 Labour market regulation and transitions; 8 Responding to lives at risk; Index.