Social Policy in Times of Austerity: Global Economic Crisis and the New Politics of Welfare

ISBN-13: 9781447319115 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 224 str.

Kevin Farnsworth; Zoe Irving

Opis

The effects of the 2008 financial crisis were ameliorated by large-scale social policy interventions, which both helped limit the depth and duration of the crisis and softened its worst effects on citizens. Yet in the wake of the crisis, those very same social policies and the welfare state they support have come under attack.
There is, however, reason to be optimistic, argue the contributors to Social Policy in Times of Austerity. Bringing together leading scholars engaged in the debate over austerity and the future of the welfare state, the book traces the strong currents of resistance to austerity that continue to thrive within organizations, governments, and the citizenry at large.

Spis treści

Introduction: social policy in the age of austerity ~ Kevin Farnsworth and Zoë Irving; Austerity: more than the sum of its parts ~ Kevin Farnsworth and Zoë Irving; Conventional wisdom on government austerity: UK politics since the 1920s ~ Michael Hill;
 The economics of austerity ~ Stephen Mcbride; Neoliberalism, finance-dominated accumulation and enduring austerity: a cultural political economy perspective ~ Bob Jessop;
 Alternatives to austerity ~ Dexter Whitfield and John Spoehr; Crisis, convulsion and the welfare state ~ Frances Fox-Piven and Lorraine Minnite; Conclusion: a new politics of welfare ~ Kevin Farnsworth and Zoë Irving.