Contents

pp iii-iv

List of tables and boxes

pp v-v

List of abbreviations

pp vi-vii

Notes on contributors

pp viii-xii

Introduction

pp 1-8

Part One - Current developments

pp 9-10

one - A year of transition in post-compulsory education and training

pp 11-34

two - Planning for infrastructure and housing – is sustainable development a dream?

pp 35-50

three - Towards a new pension settlement? Recent pension reform in the UK

pp 51-68

four - Climate change and climate change policy in the UK 2006–07

pp 69-92

five - Policy for older people in Wales

pp 93-110

Part Two - Current debates

pp 111-112

six - Flexibility or flexploitation? Problems with work–life balance in a low-income neighbourhood

pp 113-132

seven - The role of confidence and identity in civic participation: exploring ethnic group differences

pp 133-150

eight - The problem of riches: is philanthropy a solution or part of the problem?

pp 151-172

nine - Policy from the pitch? Soccer and young refugee women in a shifting policy climate

pp 173-190

ten - Social citizenship in post-liberal Britain and post-corporatist Germany – curtailed, fragmented, streamlined, but still on the agenda

pp 191-212

Part Three - Engendering policy and politics

pp 213-214

eleven - Gender and New Labour: after the male breadwinner model?

pp 215-240

twelve - A review of engendering policy in the EU

pp 241-262

thirteen - Forming Australian families: gender ideologies and policy settings

pp 263-278

fourteen - Working fathers as providers and carers: towards a new conceptualisation of fatherhood

pp 279-296

Index

pp 297-308