The subject of human nature has recently returned to the centre of welfare debates in Britain, with prime ministers, politicians and academics addressing the effects of social policy on individual character and morality. This book offers a serious examination of ideas about human nature and motivation in twentieth- century social policy, focusing specifically on social democratic, neo-liberal and mutualist ideas in mainstream welfare, and on Marxist and feminist alternatives. It pays close attention to the important reappraisal of welfare and human needs currently underway in each of these...
The subject of human nature has recently returned to the centre of welfare debates in Britain, with prime ministers, politicians and academics address...
35 years of political tranquility followed the failure of Chartism. This book asks why there was no significant political or social unrest in Britain in this period, when social upheaval occurred in many continental European countries in 1848.
35 years of political tranquility followed the failure of Chartism. This book asks why there was no significant political or social unrest in Britain ...
