'Fiona Williams has been a vital force in developing critical approaches to social policy. This book brilliantly consolidates and advances our thinking about welfare and welfare states - and does so in a typically subtle and stimulating way. A must-read!'
John Clarke, Emeritus Professor, The Open University
'Breathtaking in its scope, Social Policy sets a challenging analytical and ethical agenda for social policy as a discipline and a praxis. And it contains important messages for all who seek to "build back better" from COVID-19.'
Ruth Lister, Member of the House of Lords and Emeritus Professor of Social Policy, Loughborough University
1. Introduction
PART I ORIENTATION
2. A Critical and Intersectional Approach to Social Policy
3. Intersecting Global Crises and Dynamics of Family, Nation, Work, and Nature: a framework for analysis
PART II ANALYSIS
4. Un/Settling Family-Nation-Work-Nature: from austerity to pandemic
5. The Social Relations of Welfare: subjects, agents, activists
6. Intersections in the Transnational, Social and Political Economy of Care
PART III PRAXIS
7. Towards an Eco-Welfare Commons: intersections of political ethics and prefigurative practices
8. Conclusion: multi-dimensional thinking for social policy
Appendix I Elaborating Family-Nation-Work-Nature and Welfare
Appendix II Situating the Author within Social Policy
Fiona Williams is Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at the University of Leeds.