Cover; Title; Contents; Introduction: Shifting Risk?; Part 1: Historical and International Developments; 1. Risk Shifts in Australia:; 2. Welfare Regimes and Risky Speculations; 3. Demographic Change in Australia and Its Social Consequences; 4. Risk and US Social Policy:; 5. Welfare Reform and Provision for Old Age in Australia and Britain; Part 2: Critical Reflections on Risk, Responsibility and Autonomy; 6. Autonomy: Individualistic or Social and Relational; 7. Two Conceptions of Risk and Responsibility; Part 3: Consequences of Individualising Risk: Work, Welfare and Education.

8. 'The great risk shift at work in Australia?'9. Tertiary Education as Insurance against Risk:; 10. Very Risky Business:; 11. Risk Management and the Human Services:; Part 4: Managing Risk More Effectively and Equitably; 12. Policy Design Issues for Risk Management:; 13. New Social and Economic Risks; 14. Working It Out:; Contributors; Index; Copyright.