236 Pages
by
Routledge
236 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1991, Social Security and Social Control (now with a new preface by the author) takes a fresh look at social security policy and demonstrates how the disciplinary effects of social security and relief programmes are more extensive, pervasive, and subtle than is commonly supposed. Based on his academic research, drawing particularly upon the post-structuralist ideas of... Read more
1. Social security reform and the question of social control 2. Concepts of social control 3. Social control and the development of the social security system 4. Poverty and partitioning 5. The development of the social security appeal tribunal: A case-study 6. The emergence of the disciplinary examination 7. Strategies for social control
Biography
Hartley Dean is Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics, UK. He had been a welfare rights worker in Brixton, South London for 12 years before moving on to a 40-year academic career researching, teaching, and writing about social justice issues.
