The Idea of Welfare

ISBN-13: 9780367177645 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 300 str.

Robert Pinker

Opis

Originally published in 1979, The Idea of Welfare challenges conventional definitions of welfare, largely concerned with formal social policies sponsored by government and uses historical material to illustrate the dominant forms of a mutual aid which were practised before the development of modern welfare states

Spis treści

Preface  Acknowledgements  Part I: The Institutional Frameworks of Social Welfare  1. Egoism and Altruism: A Critique of the Divergence  2. Family and Community  3. Nationalism and Internationalism  4. Social Change and Social Welfare  5. Patterns of Exchange in Social Welfare  Part II: Capitalism, Socialism and Collectivism  6. Welfare and the Free Market  7. The Collectivist Reaction  8. Social Change and Social Policy in Russia before the Bolshevik Revolution  9. Community and Social Welfare in America before the First World War  10. Settlement, Migration and the Search for Welfare  11. A Comparative Typology of Social Welfare  12. Three Models of Social Welfare  Bibliography  Subject Index  Name Index

O autorze

Robert (Bob) Pinker served his academic apprenticeship in Richard Titmuss’s department at the LSE from the late 1950s under Brian Abel-Smith and Peter Townsend, as a research worker and a higher degree student. Successive academic appointments followed at Goldsmiths College, Chelsea College and then the LSE, from where he retired in 1996 as Professor of Social Administration.