Analysing the History of British Social Welfare
eBook - ePub

Analysing the History of British Social Welfare

Compassion, Coercion and Beyond

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Analysing the History of British Social Welfare

Compassion, Coercion and Beyond

About this book

This book offers insights into the development of social welfare policies by exploring the interconnections between policies and practice throughout history.

It challenges tacitly accepted arguments that favour particular approaches to welfare, such as conditionality and eligibility. It provides examples of enduring social assumptions which influence the way we perform social welfare, such as the equivocal position of women in social welfare and the unintended consequences of reforms such as Universal Credit.

By identifying continuities in welfare policy, practice and thought, it offers the potential for the development of new thinking, policy making and practice.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. List of Tables
  6. List of Abbreviations
  7. About the Author
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. 1 Concepts, continuities and critique
  10. 2 A brief history of British social welfare
  11. 3 Philosophical binaries and normative judgements
  12. 4 Chocolate, flowers and social welfare reform
  13. 5 War: the paradoxical crucible of welfare reform
  14. 6 Gendered perspectives on welfare
  15. 7 Piacular austerity: sacrificing the poor for the rich
  16. 8 Universal Credit versus Universal Basic Income: strange bedfellows?
  17. 9 Containing the radicals and regulating the ‘other’: a history of the strange case of social work
  18. 10 W(h)ither welfare after Brexit and COVID-19?
  19. References
  20. Index