Rethinking Welfare
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Rethinking Welfare

A Critical Perspective

  1. 212 pages
  2. English
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eBook - PDF

Rethinking Welfare

A Critical Perspective

About this book

`I would encourage undergraduates students to read it, for it does summarise well a classical Marxist analysis of social policy and welfare? - Social Policy

The anti-capitalist movement is increasingly challenging the global hegemony of neo-liberalism. The arguments against the neo-liberal agenda are clearly articulated in Rethinking Welfare. The authors highlight the growing inequalities and decimation of state welfare, and use Marxist approaches to contemporary social policy to provide a defence of the welfare state.

Divided into three main sections, the first part of this volume looks at the growth of inequality, and social and environmental degradation.

Part Two centres on the authors? argument for the relevance of core Marxists concepts in aiding our understanding of social policy. This section includes Marxist approaches to a range of welfare issues, and their implications for studying welfare regimes and practices.

Issues covered include:

· Class and class struggle

· Opression

· Alienation and the family

The last part of the book explores the question of globalization and the consequences of international neo-liberalism on indebted countries as well as the neo-liberal agenda of the Conservative and New Labour governments in Britain. The authors conclude with the prospect of an alternative welfare future which may form part of the challenge against global neo-liberalism.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. A Bed For The Night
  5. Introduction
  6. Part I: The Relevance of Marx
  7. Chapter 1 - 'Was he right all along?': Classical Marxism and Social Policy
  8. Chapter 2 - 'Incentives and punishments': Capitalism and Welfare
  9. Part II: Marxism and Welfare
  10. Chapter 3 - 'We are all classless nowadays': The Class Structure Today
  11. Chapter 4 - 'A deplorable concession to the shade of Karl Marx': Class as Agency
  12. Chapter 5 - 'People have become objects': The Roots of Alienation
  13. Chapter 6 - 'The compexities of social differentiation': Explaining Oppression
  14. Chapter 7 - 'The bedrock of a decent, civilised and stable society': Capitalism and the Family
  15. Part III: The Neo-Liberal Assault
  16. Chapter 8 - 'Apocalypse now': Globalisation, Welfare and the State
  17. Chapter 9 - 'A system designed not yesterday, but for today': New Labour and Welfare
  18. Chapter 10 - '...Waiting for something else': Welfare Futures
  19. Bibliography
  20. Subject Index
  21. Name Index