Welfare and the State: Who Benefits?: Who Benefits?

ISBN-13: 9780333488263 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 280 str.

Lois Bryson

Opis

Conventional texts on the welfare state have had a narrow gaze, focused mainly on benefits to the poor and relatively poor. Welfare and the State updates and broadens the classic debates on poverty, inequality and the nature of state. It focuses on the widest range of social policies, affecting the wealthy as well as the poor. It directs attention to gender, through examining women's welfare state and men's welfare state. It is concerned with the interests of those of non- dominant races both within nations and internationally. The results highlight the international applicability of the Matthew principle - 'to those that hath shall be given'.

Spis treści

List of Tables and Figures.- Acknowledgements.- Introduction: Who Benefits?.- The Sociological Context.- Conventional Welfare Discourses: Their Relevance in the 1990s.- The Development of the Welfare State: From Poor Laws to New Right.- The Distribution of State Welfare.- Men's Welfare.- State Women's Welfare.- State Conclusion: The Welfare State in the Twenty-first Century Recommended.- Reading References.- Index.