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Welfare Law

edited by Peter Robson

(The international library of essays in law and legal theory, . Areas ; 8)

Dartmouth, c1992

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Reprints of essays published in various publications between 1954 and 1988

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

A collection of articles covering all aspects of welfare law, and divided into five main sections: the definition of poverty; the nature of poverty and responses to it; the political and economic context of welfare; rights, discretion and welfare; and gender and welfare.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 The definition of poverty: measuring poverty, Peter Townsend
  • the culture of poverty, Oscar Lewis
  • poverty, inequality and conflict, S.M. Miller, et al
  • how poverty is measured, Mollie Orshansky. Part 2 The nature of poverty and responses to it: analyses in the social division of welfare, Adrian Sinfield
  • welfare states and capitalist markets, Goran Therborn
  • vulnerabilities and responsibilities - an ethical defence of the welfare state, Robert Goodin
  • citizenship, social citizenship and the defence of welfare provision, Desmond King and Jeremy Waldron. Part 4 The political and economic context of welfare: value problems of welfare capitalism, T.H. Marshall
  • the positive functions of poverty, Herbert Gans
  • state expenditure in advanced capitalism, Ian Gough
  • the welfare state, a self-inflicted crisis, Rudolf Klein
  • welfare state and welfare society, Geraint Parry. Part 4 Rights, discretion and welfare: individual rights and social welfare - the emerging legal issues, Charles Reich
  • on protecting the poor through the Fourteenth Amendment, Frank I. Michelman
  • legality, bureaucracy, and class in the welfare system, William H. Simon
  • discretion in social welfare - the uneasy position in the rule of law, Joel F. Handler
  • welfare "Rights", law and discretion, Richard Titmuss
  • welfare, rights and discretion, Robert E. Goodin
  • welfare benefits, administrative discretion, and the politics of the "new urban Left", Ian Loveland. Part 5 Gender and welfare: who cares for the family?, Hilary Land
  • feminism and social policy, Mary McIntosh
  • women and the welfare state, Caroline Andrew
  • the gender basis of American social policy, Virginia Sapiro
  • the Scandinavian welfare states - towards sexual equality or a new kind of male domination?, Birte Siim.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA17137003
  • ISBN
    • 1855211629
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Aldershot, England
  • Pages/Volumes
    xx, 582 p.
  • Size
    25 cm
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