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Virtually unknown as a poet in her lifetime, Emily Dickinson (1830-86) is now recognized as one of the most unaccountably strange and marvelous of the world's great writers. Unique in their form, their psychic urgency, and their uncanny, crystalline power, her poems represent a mind unlike any other to be found in literature.
The editors of Diminishing Welfare, Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg and Marguerite G. Rosenthal, have assembled a fine array of comprehensive but accessible and interesting studies on the fate of the welfare state in nine nations, spanning three continents. This book will be an asset to intellectual and political debates on the future of the welfare state and an invaluable tool for courses in social policy, social work, political sociology, social inequality, and political science, among others. The introductory chapter, covering the stages of emergence, growth and crisis, and a concluding essay reviewing major themes, issues and theoretical perspective and providing a bibliography of key works in the social policy field makes this book particularly useful for both graduate and undergraduate students. -Gregg M. Olsen Sociology University of Manitoba Canada author of The Politics of the Welfare State: Canada, Sweden and the United States
