Poverty, Welfare and the Disciplinary State

ISBN-13: 9780415182904 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 232 str.

Chris Jones; Tony Novak

Opis

In a forward looking appraisal of the welfare state, this text examines such issues as: the current dynamics of poverty in Britain, drawing on similar developments in Europe and the US; and the major areas of social policy within which the abandonment and demonization of the poor is taking place; the historical antecendents to this relationship between the state and the poor; the creation and expansion of a welfare state that characterized the era of social democracy until the mid-1970s and from the point of view of the poor, was limited and conditional; the ideology and organization of the New Right; and the new terrain on which the struggle over the future of welfare and social policy must take place.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Redefining the Poor; Chapter 2 Impoverishing the Poor; Chapter 3 The Abuse of the Poor; Chapter 4 The Vile Maxim of the Masters; Chapter 5 Re-Tooling the State; Chapter 6 Abandoning the Poor;

O autorze

Chris Jones is Professor of Social Policy and Social Work at Liverpool University;, Tony Novak is Lecturer in Social Policy also at Liverpool University.