Rethinking Welfare: a Critical Perspective
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The anti-capitalist movement is increasingly challenging the global hegemony of neo-liberalism. The arguments against the neo-liberal agenda are clearly articulated in Radical Social Welfare. The authors: * hightlight the growing inequalities and decimation of state welfare * use Marxist approaches to contemporary social policy to provide a defence of the welfare state * explore the question of globalization as well as the neo-liberal agenda of the Conservative and New Labour governments in Bri…
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- Full title :Rethinking Welfare : a Critical Perspective.
Summary
The anti-capitalist movement is increasingly challenging the global hegemony of neo-liberalism. The arguments against the neo-liberal agenda are clearly articulated in Radical Social Welfare. The authors: * hightlight the growing inequalities and decimation of state welfare * use Marxist approaches to contemporary social policy to provide a defence of the welfare state * explore the question of globalization as well as the neo-liberal agenda of the Conservative and New Labour governments in Britain.
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- Publication Date:2002.
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- Publisher(s):SAGE Publications
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2002.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (224)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780761964179, 0761964177, 9780761964186, 0761964185, 9781446219324, 1446219321
- oclc:ocn729030979
- LC Classification:HV31
- Dewey Decimal:361.65
Table of Contents
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- A Bed For The Night -- Introduction -- Part I: The Relevance of Marx -- Chapter 1 -- 'Was he right all along?': Classical Marxism and Social Policy -- Chapter 2 -- 'Incentives and punishments': Capitalism and Welfare -- Part II: Marxism and Welfare -- Chapter 3 -- 'We are all classless nowadays': The Class Structure Today -- Chapter 4 -- 'A deplorable concession to the shade of Karl Marx': Class as Agency -- Chapter 5 -- 'People have become objects': The Roots of Alienation -- Chapter 6 -- 'The compexities of social differentiation': Explaining Oppression -- Chapter 7 -- 'The bedrock of a decent, civilised and stable society': Capitalism and the Family -- Part III: The Neo-Liberal Assault -- Chapter 8 -- 'Apocalypse now': Globalisation, Welfare and the State -- Chapter 9 -- 'A system designed not yesterday, but for today': New Labour and Welfare -- Chapter 10 -- ' ... Waiting for something else': Welfare Futures -- Bibliography -- Subject Index.
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