Social Policy: Welfare, Power and Diversity

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1. Imagining Welfare Futures

   Edited by Gordon Hughes

   Series: Social Policy: Welfare, Power and Diversity

   Imagining Welfare Futures explores possible futures of welfare by considering different types of relationship between the public and the state through which social welfare may be organized beyond the millennium. By drawing on contemporary debates about the 'citizen', 'the community' and 'the...

   Published August 12th 1998 by Routledge
2. Unsettling Welfare

   The Reconstruction of Social Policy

   Edited by Gordon Hughes, Gail Lewis

   Series: Social Policy: Welfare, Power and Diversity

   Unsettling Welfare addresses the changing relationship between social welfare, its 'recipients' and the state. In particular, the book explores the direction and the impact of the reforms of the welfare state that took place during the 1980s and 1990s. By focusing on specific fields of social...

   Published June 17th 1998 by Routledge
3. Welfare: Needs, Rights and Risks

   Edited by Mary Langan

   Series: Social Policy: Welfare, Power and Diversity

   Welfare: Needs, Rights and Risks addresses the question of how people get access to social welfare in the UK today. It explores the public, political and professional definitions, constructions and conflicts about who should receive social welfare and under what conditions. In a period during which...

   Published May 6th 1998 by Routledge
4. Forming Nation, Framing Welfare

   Edited by Gail Lewis

   Series: Social Policy: Welfare, Power and Diversity

   This book introduces a historical perspective on the emergence and development of social welfare. Starting from the familiar ground of 'the family', it traces some of the crucial historical roots and desires that fed the development of social policy in the 19th and 20th centuries around education,...

   Published March 4th 1998 by Routledge
5. Embodying the Social

   Constructions of Difference

   Edited by Esther Saraga

   Series: Social Policy: Welfare, Power and Diversity

   This book opens the series with a consideration of the social construction of social difference. Taking the body as the point of departure, it deals with the processes through which social problems and social inequalities are constructed. In particular, it examines the shifting ways in which our...

   Published February 4th 1998 by Routledge