Analysing the History of British Social Welfare

Compassion, Coercion and Beyond
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-4473-6370-5
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 360 g

This book offers insights into the development of social welfare policies by exploring the interconnections between policies and practice throughout history.

It challenges tacitly accepted arguments that favour particular approaches to welfare, such as conditionality and eligibility. It provides examples of enduring social assumptions which influence the way we perform social welfare, such as the equivocal position of women in social welfare and the unintended consequences of reforms such as Universal Credit.

By identifying continuities in welfare policy, practice and thought, it offers the potential for the development of new thinking, policy making and practice.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Parker, Jonathan

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wohlfahrtsökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Verwaltungswissenschaft, Öffentliche Verwaltung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Dienste, Soziale Organisationen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Concepts, Continuities and Critique

2. A Brief History of British Social Welfare

3. Philosophical Binaries and Normative Judgements

4. Chocolate, Flowers and Social Welfare Reform

5. War: The Paradoxical Crucible of Welfare Reform

6. Gendered Perspectives on Welfare

7. Piacular Austerity: Sacrificing the Poor for the Rich

8. Universal Credit vs. Universal Basic Income: Strange Bedfellows?

9. Containing the Radicals and Regulating the ‘Other’: A History of the Strange Case of Social Work

10. W(h)ither Welfare After Brexit and COVID-19?

Über Autor(innen)

Parker, Jonathan
Jonathan Parker is Professor of Society & Social Welfare at Bournemouth University, UK, and University of Stavanger, Norway

Jonathan Parker is Professor of Society and Social Welfare at Bournemouth University and Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of Stavanger.