Rethinking Welfare : A Critical Perspective.
Title:
Rethinking Welfare : A Critical Perspective.
Author:
Ferguson, Iain.
ISBN:
9781412931984
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (220 pages)
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 -- Name Index.
Abstract:
`I would encourage undergraduates students to read it, for it does summarise well a classical Marxist analysis of social policy and welfare' - Social Policy he anti-capitalist movement is increasingly challenging the global hegemony of neo-liberalism. The arguments against the neo-liberal agenda are clearly articulated in Rethinking Welfare. The authors highlight the growing inequalities and decimation of state welfare. Using Marxist approaches to contemporary social policy they provide a defence of the welfare state. They explore the question of globalization as well as the neo-liberal agenda of the Conservative and New Labour governments in Britain.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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