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The Transformation of British Welfare Policy

Author : Tom O'Grady
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192898892
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book The Transformation of British Welfare Policy written by Tom O'Grady and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 2010 the UK has enacted radical welfare reforms that have led to greater poverty, homelessness, indebtedness, and foodbank use. It has diverged from other European countries experiencing similar economic and social trends, who have not enacted such dramatic cuts and reforms. Until recently, however, the changes proved very popular with the public, who increasingly hated the welfare system and viewed its users as lazy, undeserving, and likely to be cheating. In this book, Tom O'Grady focuses on policies that provide relief from unemployment, poverty, and disability to uncover why Britain's welfare system has been reformed so radically and why, until recently, the public enthusiastically endorsed this programme. Using a comparative and historical perspective, he traces the evolution of British welfare policy, politics, discourse, and public opinion since the 1980s, and argues that from the 1990s a long-term change in discourse from both politicians and the media caused the British public to turn against welfare by 2010. That, combined with the financial crisis, left the system uniquely vulnerable to cuts. This book explores the roots of public opinion on the welfare system, the motives of politicians who have revolutionized it, and the ways in which the system and its users have been spoken about. It is an account of how the public came to consider deserving recipients of help as scroungers; of when and why politicians and the media vilified them; of political parties whose discourse and policies were transformed, almost overnight; and of Britain's journey from providing welfare as generously as the average European country in the 1970s to becoming an outlier today.

The Next Welfare State?

Author : Christopher Pierson
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447361199
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book The Next Welfare State? written by Christopher Pierson and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Chris Pierson argues that we will need to think quite differently about the British welfare state after COVID-19. He looks back to the welfare state’s origins and development as well as forwards, unearthing some surprising solutions in unexpected places.

Colonialism and Welfare

Author : James Midgley
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 184980849X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (498 download)

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Download or read book Colonialism and Welfare written by James Midgley and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British Empire is part covered three centuries, five continents and onequarter of the world's population. Its legacy continues, shaping the societies and welfare policies of much of the modern world. In this book, for the first time, this legacy is explored and analysed. Colonialism and Welfare reveals that social welfare policies, often discriminatory, and challenging to those colonised were introduced and imposed by the ?mother country.' It highlights that there was great diversity in rationales and impacts across the empire, but past developments had a major impact on the development of much of the world's population. Contributions from every continent explore both the diversity and the common themes in the imperial experience. They examine the legacy of colonial welfare - a subject largely neglected by both historians of empire and social policy analysts. This original book shows that social welfare today cannot be understood without understanding the legacy of the British Empire. Academics, specialised students with an interest in comparative social policy, history of social policy, imperial history, colonialism, and contemporary third world social policy will find this book invaluable to their studies.

Changing Directions of the British Welfare State

Author : Gideon Calder
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1783165510
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (831 download)

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Download or read book Changing Directions of the British Welfare State written by Gideon Calder and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a unique and timely survey of the evolving priorities of the British welfare state since its inception in the late 1940s, with an emphasis on how current and future aims and features of welfare provision compare with the ambitions of its original architects. In this book, 15 commentators, including prominent academic experts in the field, and also members of think tanks, charities and campaigning organisations – with a foreword by the BBC’s Huw Edwards, explore themes such as health, education, housing, gender, disability and ethnic diversity. The result of this study is a rich, critical and thought-provoking exploration of the legacy and prospects of the welfare state – worth reading by anyone with an interest in debates on how a modern society should meet the needs of its citizens.

The Gender Division of Welfare

Author : Mary Daly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521626217
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book The Gender Division of Welfare written by Mary Daly and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-05-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 2000, compares gender, social equality and welfare issues in Britain and Germany.

Corporate power and social policy in a global economy

Author : Farnsworth, Kevin
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1847425860
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Corporate power and social policy in a global economy written by Farnsworth, Kevin and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2004-01-28 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning the complete era of the Conservative governments and the first term of New Labour, this book looks at mechanisms of corporate power and influence; corporate opinion and influence in a range of social policy areas including: education, training, health and social security; changing business influence on social policy in recent years in an international context and business involvement in social policy initiatives and welfare delivery. By exploring business views and opinions, power, influence and involvement in social provision, this book helps to address important questions in social policy and, in so doing, goes some way towards closing a gaping hole in the current literature. The book's breadth and multidisciplinary approach will appeal not only to students of social policy, but also to students of business, public sector management and politics, their teachers and policy makers in the field.

New Labour, New Welfare State?

Author : Powell, Martin
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1861341512
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (613 download)

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Download or read book New Labour, New Welfare State? written by Powell, Martin and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 1999-06-02 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study provides a comprehensive examination of the social policy of New Labour. It examines differences between current policy areas and provides topical information on the debate on the future of the welfare state.

Comparing Welfare States

Author : Allan Cochrane
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Comparing Welfare States written by Allan Cochrane and published by SAGE Publications Limited. This book was released on 1993-10-05 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering an introduction to the study of both British and comparative social policy, this book provides a unique approach to understanding the British welfare state through its wider international focus. The British experience is related to those of Hong Kong, Sweden, Germany and Ireland and is set in the context of policy issues within the European Community. Particular attention is paid to the interactions between family policies and issues of race and gender, and to the processes by which individuals or groups are given or denied access to full welfare citizenship. Individual chapters move easily between national and international levels in ways which highlight the richness and complexity of welfare regimes in different

Cash Not Care

Author : Mo Stewart
Publisher : New Generation Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785077856
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Cash Not Care written by Mo Stewart and published by New Generation Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-14 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mo Stewart is a former healthcare professional, a disabled female veteran and an independent researcher. This book is the culmination of six years of self-funded research and the evidence exposes the influence of corporate America, since 1992, with the future welfare reforms of the UK. The impact of the enforced austerity measures of the UK government is identified, as they negatively affect the welfare and the survival of the chronically sick and disabled population in receipt of welfare benefits when unfit to work. The research has informed welfare reform debates in the House of Lords and the House of Commons since 2011 and contributed to the evidence used by the United Nations to investigate the UK government for breaches of the Human Rights of sick and disabled people. Endorsed by the disabled community and by academics, the research has identified the adoption of lethal social policies, copied from American social security policies, and linked to the death of thousands of the most vulnerable of all, as the UK welfare state is systematically demolished as all planned over thirty years ago by a previous Conservative government.

Welfare and Punishment

Author : Ian Cummins
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1529203937
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (292 download)

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Download or read book Welfare and Punishment written by Ian Cummins and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2022-08 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Margaret Thatcher’s first government to austerity politics, Ian Cummins traces changing attitudes to imprisonment and the social state. With fresh insights and critical thinking, he demonstrates how increasingly punitive approaches to crime and welfare have shaped the neoliberal economy and created stigma around those living in poverty.

Financialization as Welfare

Author : Philipp Golka
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030061000
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Financialization as Welfare written by Philipp Golka and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing an in-depth case study on the emergence of social impact investing in the UK, this book develops a new perspective on financialization processes that highlights the roles of non-financial actors. In contrast to the common view that impact investing gears finance toward the solution of social problems, the author analyzes how these investments create new problems and inequalities. To explain how social impact investing became popular in British social policy despite its unclear effectiveness, the author focuses on cooperative relations between institutional entrepreneurs from finance and various non-financial actors. Drawing on field theory, he shows how seemingly unrelated social transformations – such as HM Treasury's expanding role in public service reform – may act as resonance spaces for the spread of finance. Opening up a new perspective on financialization processes in the terrain of public policy, this book invites readers to refocus scholarship on capitalist dynamics to the meso-level. Based on this analysis, the author also proposes ways to transform social impact investing to increase its potential for reducing global inequalities.

New Directions in Economic and Social History

Author : Anne Digby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780333495698
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (956 download)

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Download or read book New Directions in Economic and Social History written by Anne Digby and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of essays on the subjects of agriculture, economy, society and labour, covering major events in British social history and the impact of such factors as imperialism and the Industrial Revolution.

The Welfare State Reader

Author : Christopher Pierson
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 0745635555
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book The Welfare State Reader written by Christopher Pierson and published by Polity. This book was released on 2006 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes 20 selections, reflecting the thinking and research in welfare state studies, these readings are organized around a series of debates - on welfare regimes, globalization, Europeanization, demographic change and political challenges.

The Oxford Handbook of Public Choice

Author : Roger D. Congleton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0190469773
Total Pages : 1017 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Public Choice written by Roger D. Congleton and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 1017 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Public Choice provides a comprehensive overview of the research in economics, political science, law, and sociology that has generated considerable insight into the politics of democratic and authoritarian systems as well as the influence of different institutional frameworks on incentives and outcomes. The result is an improved understanding of public policy, public finance, industrial organization, and macroeconomics as the combination of political and economic analysis shed light on how various interests compete both within a given rules of the games and, at times, to change the rules. These volumes include analytical surveys, syntheses, and general overviews of the many subfields of public choice focusing on interesting, important, and at times contentious issues. Throughout the focus is on enhancing understanding how political and economic systems act and interact, and how they might be improved. Both volumes combine methodological analysis with substantive overviews of key topics. This second volume examines constitutional political economy and also various applications, including public policy, international relations, and the study of history, as well as methodological and measurement issues. Throughout both volumes important analytical concepts and tools are discussed, including their application to substantive topics. Readers will gain increased understanding of rational choice and its implications for collective action; various explanations of voting, including economic and expressive; the role of taxation and finance in government dynamics; how trust and persuasion influence political outcomes; and how revolution, coups, and authoritarianism can be explained by the same set of analytical tools as enhance understanding of the various forms of democracy.

The Politics of Free Markets

Author : Monica Prasad
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226679020
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Free Markets written by Monica Prasad and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2006-07-17 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The attempt to reduce the role of the state in the market through tax cuts, decreases in social spending, deregulation, and privatization—“neoliberalism”—took root in the United States under Ronald Reagan and in Britain under Margaret Thatcher. But why did neoliberal policies gain such prominence in these two countries and not in similarly industrialized Western countries such as France and Germany? In The Politics of Free Markets, a comparative-historical analysis of the development of neoliberal policies in these four countries,Monica Prasad argues that neoliberalism was made possible in the United States and Britain not because the Left in these countries was too weak, but because it was in some respects too strong. At the time of the oil crisis in the 1970s, American and British tax policies were more punitive to business and the wealthy than the tax policies of France and West Germany; American and British industrial policies were more adversarial to business in key domains; and while the British welfare state was the most redistributive of the four, the French welfare state was the least redistributive. Prasad shows that these adversarial structures in the United States and Britain created opportunities for politicians to find and mobilize dissatisfaction with the status quo, while the more progrowth policies of France and West Germany prevented politicians of the Right from anchoring neoliberalism in electoral dissatisfaction.

Social Policy in a Cold Climate

Author : Ruth Lupton
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447327713
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Social Policy in a Cold Climate written by Ruth Lupton and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2016-04-20 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The financial crisis of 2008 led the United Kingdom's Labour Government to make changes--primarily cuts--to social programs and a wide range of social services. The subsequent Coalition Government followed those changes with much more dramatic cuts. This book offers the first in-depth empirical analysis of the two governments and their approach to social policy in a period of crisis, assessing policy aims, policy implementation, and measurable outcomes.

Good Times, Bad Times

Author : Hills, John
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447336496
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Good Times, Bad Times written by Hills, John and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2017-02-22 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two-thirds of UK government spending now goes on the welfare state and where the money is spent – healthcare, education, pensions, benefits – is the centre of political and public debate. Much of that debate is dominated by the myth that the population divides into those who benefit from the welfare state and those who pay into it – 'skivers' and 'strivers', 'them' and 'us'. This ground-breaking book, written by one of the UK’s leading social policy experts, uses extensive research and survey evidence to challenge that view. It shows that our complex and ever-changing lives mean that all of us rely on the welfare state throughout our lifetimes, not just a small ‘welfare-dependent’ minority. Using everyday life stories and engaging graphics, Hills clearly demonstrates how the facts are far removed from the myths. This revised edition contains fully updated data, discusses key policy changes and a new preface reflecting on the changed context after the 2015 election and Brexit vote.