Egalitarianism in Scandinavia Historical and Contemporary Perspectives /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bendixsen, Synnøve (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Bringslid, Mary Bente (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Vike, Halvard (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Approaches to Social Inequality and Difference
• Subjects: Ethnology.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Ethnography.; Welfare state.; Social justice.; Human rights.; Social Anthropology.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.; Politics of the Welfare State.; Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights.

This book discusses egalitarianism in Scandinavian countries through historically oriented and empirically based studies on social and political change. The chapters engage with issues related to social class, political conflict, the emergence of the welfare state, public policy, and conceptualizati...