British Social Welfare in the Twentieth Century

ISBN-13: 9780333677711 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 366 str.

Robert Page;Richard Silburn

Opis

This major thematic and historical overview provides a clear guide to key welfare practices and developments in the public, private, voluntary and informal welfare sectors in twentieth-century Britain, outlining the dominant ideas about welfare in the period in question. As such, it offers an effective bridge between historical and contemporary concerns, drawing out some of the more rarely articulated premises of courses in the history of social policy and illuminating the social, political and economic dimensions of its subject.

Spis treści

Tables.- Acknowledgements.- Contributors.- Introduction; R.L.Silburn.- PART ONE: THE CENTURY SURVEYOR.- The Twentieth Century: An Overview; J.Stewart.- Paying for Welfare in the Twentieth Century; J.Tomlinson.- PART TWO: POLITICAL IDEAS.- Neoclassicism, The New Right and British Social Welfare; N.Barry.- New Liberalism and the Middle Way, R.Pinker.- Democratic Socialism and Social Policy; M.Sullivan.- PART THREE: WELFARE AND THE STATE.- Education; M.Sanderson.- Health; H.Jones.- Employment, Unemployment and the Labour Market; S.Glynn.- Poverty and Social Security; P.Alcock.- Housing; N.Ginsburg.- PART FOUR: WELFARE OUTSIDE THE STATE.- Voluntary and Informal Welfare; J.Lewis.- Commercial and Occupational Welfare; M.May & E.Brunsdon.- PART FIVE: THE FUTURE.- The Prospects for Social Welfare at the Millennium; R.Page.- Bibliography.- Index.

O autorze

ROBERT M. PAGE is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Leicester. His books include Stigma and Altruism and the British Welfare State, and Modern Thinkers on Welfare, which he co-edited with Vic George.

RICHARD L. SILBURN worked for many years as a university teacher and researcher. He is now a freelance scholar and research consultant. He has written extensively on issues of poverty and social security.