Introduction -- Socialist Medicine and Theories of Informal Payments -- Institutional Changes and the Power of Chinese Medical Professionals -- Health Reform and the Rise of Informal Payments after 1978 -- Transactions of Red Packets in the Hospital -- Rein in Red Packets -- Conclusion.This text addresses the key issue of informal payments, or ‘red packets’, in the Chinese Healthcare system…
Part 1: Concepts and debates -- 1 -- Introduction: The policy implications of virtual work; Pamela Meil and Vassil Kirov -- 2. Where did Online Platforms come from? The virtualization of work organization and the new policy challenges it raises; Ursula Huws -- Part 2: Measuring virtual work -- 3. Crowd employment and ICT-based mobile work – new employment forms in Europe; Irene Mandl and Maur…
Chapter 1: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Three Sectors in Asia: The Contexts and Perspectives -- Chapter 2: BSR in Transitional China: Traditions, Practices, and Future -- Chapter 3: CSR in Japan: Towards Integration and Corporate-CSO Partnership -- Chapter 4: Business Social Responsibility in South Korea: A Study of Relationships among Korean Companies and NPOs -- Chapter 5: Corporat…
Prologue -- The Development of China’s Social Welfare System -- The Deviation of China’s Social Insurance Fund Mode and Its Corrections -- Health Problems and Health Equality in the Transitional Period -- Establishing a Basic Rural Medical Security System -- Analysis of Factors Affecting Rural Residents’ Satisfaction with Medical Services -- Analysis of Social Security Expenditures by the…
Sections/Topics -- 1 The human and humanitarian challenge of suffering (This topic includes philosophical and practical perspectives, the global geography of suffering and its relief, social solidarity, social responsibility for relief of suffering, collective action, empathic altruism, and interpersonal caring.) -- 2 Quality of Life (QOL) research challenges (The topic includes issues such as …
Preface -- Part 1 -- Part 2 -- Part 3 -- Part 4 -- Part 5 -- Postscript.This book is an analysis and exploration of the relationship between peasants and policies within the process of reform in China. After examining the long term rural policies, either before or after the reform, it was found that all these polices have been expected to promote peasants’ interests and claimed to take enhanc…
Introduction -- 1. A History of the Value accorded to Work -- 2. The Immense Expectations attached to Work -- 3. The Disappointment of Expectations as a Result of the Transformation of Work -- 4. The Meaning of Work through the Lens of Generational Difference -- 5. The Coexistence of Generations at Work.This book looks at the history of work and the meanings that are attached to it over time. T…
Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Capitalist development and the growth paradigm -- Chapter 3 Growth and the welfare state as we know it -- Chapter 4 Critiques of growth -- Chapter 5 Postgrowth and human wellbeing -- Chapter 6: The generation of human wellbeing – social practices theory -- Chapter 7: Welfare in a global steady-state economy -- Chapter 8: Conclusions.This book presents a d…
Part I: Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Family-Work Nexus and Wellbeing in Asia: An Introduction -- Part II: Family Structure -- Chapter 2. Familial Exchange and Intergenerational Contact in East Asian Societies -- Chapter 3. A New Era in Living Arrangements: Determinants of Quality of Life among Chinese Older Adults -- Part III: Gender, Work and Culture -- Chapter 4. Multiple Dimensions of Gend…
Preface -- Chapter 1: Peasants and the Central Government -- Chapter 2: Peasants and the Local Government -- Chapter 3: Peasants and Rural Democratization -- Chapter 4: Peasants and Social Construction -- Chapter 5: Peasants and Local Government Officials.This book focuses on analyzing the inter-relationship between Chinese peasants and the reform and it tries to understand the conditions of pe…