Social Policy Review
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Social Policy Review

Analysis and Debate in Social Policy, 2019

  1. 292 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Social Policy Review

Analysis and Debate in Social Policy, 2019

About this book

Bringing together the voices of leading experts in the field, this edition offers an up-to-date and diverse review of the best in social policy scholarship over the past year.

The book considers a range of current issues and critical debates in UK and international social policy field. It contains vital research, including discussions on the changing landscape of occupational as well as corporate welfare in the UK, the continuing impact of austerity on various social policy areas and the challenges currently faced by the NHS.

Published in association with the SPA, this comprehensive analysis of the current state of social policy will be of interest to students and academics in social policy, social welfare and related disciplines.

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Table of contents

  1. SOCIAL POLICY REVIEW 31
  2. Contents
  3. List of figures and tables
  4. Notes on contributors
  5. Part I. A decade of social policy since the crisis – looking back and forward
  6. 1. The English National Health Service in a cold climate: a decade of austerity
  7. 2. Disability and austerity: the perfect storm of attacks on social rights
  8. 3. Financialisation and social protection? The UK’s path towards a socially protective public–private pension system
  9. 4. Towards a whole-economy approach to the welfare state: citizens, corporations and the state within the broad welfare mix
  10. 5. From welfare state to participation society: austerity, ideology or rhetoric?
  11. Part II. Developments in social policy and contributions from the Social Policy Association Conference 2018
  12. 6. From the Windrush Generation to the ā€˜Air Jamaica generation’: local authority support for families with no recourse to public funds
  13. 7. Alt-Right ā€˜cultural purity’, ideology and mainstream social policy discourse: towards a political anthropology of ā€˜mainstremeist’ ideology
  14. 8. The moving frontier and beyond: the third sector and social policy
  15. 9. Local variations in implementing energy-efficiency policy: how third sector organisations influenced cities’ responses to the Green Deal
  16. 10. Is the ā€˜lump of labour’ a self-evident fallacy? The case of Great Britain
  17. 11. Family as a socio-economic actor in the political economy of welfare
  18. Index

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