Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
INDUSTRIAL AND LABOR RELATIONS REVIEW, cilt.78, sa.3, ss.575-577, 2025 (SSCI)
Does the history of social policy ideas offer useful insights for tracing the transformation of capitalism? Do the forces of neoliberal market mechanisms and policy implications in capitalist development put the survival of our contemporary societies in jeopardy? In Social Policy in Capitalist History, Ayşe Buğra’s position is affirmative regarding these questions. The main purpose of the book is to examine social policy ideas between change and continuity in the long course of capitalist development from the 16th century to the present day. Recent crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, have called the legitimacy of the global system into question. Any structural change in the world order will have implications for capitalism as a socioeconomic order. Social policy as a response to the tensions brought by capitalism will be informed by social, economic, and political circumstances of contemporary global politics.