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Social policy : a critical introduction : issues of race, gender, and class
- Title
- Social policy : a critical introduction : issues of race, gender, and class / Fiona Williams.
- Author
- Williams, Fiona, Professor
- Publication
- Cambridge, UK : Polity Press ; Oxford, Uk ; New York, NY, USA : Blackwell, 1989.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | HN390 .W48 1989 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xviii, 236 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- This introduction to social policy argues for the centrality of race, gender and class in welfare theory and practice. It develops an analytical framework for the study of the welfare state which considers factors deriving from capitalism, patriarchy, racism and the division of labour.
- Subject
- Since 1979
- Welfare state > History
- Racism > Great Britain
- Sexism > Great Britain
- Public health
- Public Policy
- Public Health
- Social Class
- public health
- Public health
- Racism
- Sexism
- Social policy
- Welfare state
- Verzorgingsstaat
- Rassendiscriminatie
- Sekseverschillen
- Klassenverhoudingen
- Seksisme
- Great Britain > Social policy > 1979-
- Great Britain > Social policy
- United Kingdom
- Great Britain
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. [214]-228.
- Contents
- Introduction: 'Race', gender and class -- Towards an integrated approach in social policy -- Part I: The discipline of social policy ; The origins and development of the discipline of social policy and the construction of ideas around family and nation ; Perspectives of welfare: the existing, but inadequate theoretical basis of social policy -- Part II: New Critical approaches to welfare ; Feminist critiques of the welfare state ; The basis for an anti-racist critique of the welfare state -- Part III: The welfare state: an analysis ; The historical cast of welfare reforms: Family and nation ; The welfare state as part of a racially structured and patriarchal capitalism ; Conclusion.
- ISBN
- 0745601499
- 9780745601496
- 0745601502
- 9780745601502
- LCCN
- 88028499
- OCLC
- ocm18462981
- 18462981
- SCSB-9018040
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library