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Making welfare work : reconstructing welfare for the millennium

Title: Making welfare work : reconstructing welfare for the millennium / Frank Field.
Author: Field, Frank, 1942-
Publication: New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction, ©2001.

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Description

xvi, 211 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

Challenges the current social policy with its emphasis on the role of legislation alone in bringing about social improvement in a welfare state. Argues that welfare reconstruction needs to address and channel the differing roles of self-interest, self-improvement, and altruism.

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Genre/Form

graph.
graphique.
gráfico.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-207) and index.

Contents

The Fivefold Agenda -- The Causes of Welfare Expenditure -- Welfare and Behaviour -- Contract Welfare -- Universalism: The Goal -- Welfare and Democracy -- Joined Up Policy -- How to Pay for the Future -- The New Barbarism -- Ghetto Politics -- The Disinherited Male -- Destroying Self-Respect and Self-Improvement -- The New Male -- Permanent Adolescence -- Cutting the Supply Routes -- The Drug Trade -- Inner City Apartheid -- Outside the Ghetto -- The Winter of Our Discontent -- Voters' Dismay -- The Poor's Response -- Politicians' Dismay -- The Flawed Vision -- Welfare's Fault-Lines -- Poverty Studies -- Beveridge's Second Coming -- First Thoughts -- Excluding Women -- Excluding the Disabled -- Renting a Failure -- Extending the Fault-Lines -- Government Cuts -- The White Paper Chase -- Yet More Cuts -- Minimum Income Levels -- A National Minimum -- Charles Booth -- Seebohm Rowntree -- The Poverty Line's Political Impact -- From Theory to Practice -- The Beveridge Report -- Social Insecurity -- Who Is Getting What? -- Single Parents and Poverty -- Poverty's Younger Face -- Poor Law Revival -- Half the Population on Means Tests -- Cheating the Taxpayer -- The Disintegrating Socio-Economic Landscape -- Today's Uncertain World -- Revolution in the Job Market -- The Rise and Rise of Part-Time Work -- The Disinherited Male -- The Pay Revolution -- Inequality in Incomes -- The Impact of Tax Changes -- The Rise and Rise of Single Parents -- Fraud -- The Very Elderly -- A Stakeholder's Welfare.

ISBN

0765806266
9780765806260

LCCN

99087302

OCLC

ocm43095809
43095809
SCSB-1143699

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library