1st Edition

Modernising Social Policy Unravelling New Labour's Welfare Reforms

By Tom Burdon, Charlie Cooper, Steph Petrie Copyright 2000
324 Pages
by Routledge

324 Pages
by Routledge

324 Pages
by Routledge

The key aim of this book is to critically explore the options for the future of welfare under New Labour. The 1997 election marked the prospect of a new era in social welfare - the possibility of establishing a third phase in the post-war history of the welfare state (the first being the creation of the Keynesian welfare state, the second the Thatcher/Major neo-liberal reforms). The welfare... Read more
1. The Emergence of ‘New’ Labour, 2. The Development of Social Policy, 3. ‘Welfare’ Perspectives, 4. Health Policies, 5. Education Policies, 6. Housing Policies, 7. Income Maintenance Policies, 8. ‘Family’ Policies, 9. ‘Modernising’ Welfare, Index

Biography

Burdon, Tom; Cooper, Charlie; Petrie, Steph