Ending child poverty : popular welfare for the 21st century?
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Ending child poverty : popular welfare for the 21st century?
Policy Press, 1999
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-161) index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In the Beveridge Lecture, delivered on 18 March 1999, Prime Minister Tony Blair committed his government to abolishing child poverty within 20 years. He concluded that the present-day welfare state is not fitted to the modern world, and laid out his vision for a welfare state for the 21st century. Blair's vision, grounded in a particular conception of social justice, is perhaps as challenging as the blueprint laid down by Beveridge.
Ending child poverty presents Blair's Beveridge Lecture alongside the views of some of Britain's foremost policy analysts and commentators. This unique collection makes it possible to not only read the ideas of leading current thinkers in this critical area of policy, but also to compare them with the Prime Minister's lecture, and to see which ideas he himself took up and in what form.
Ending child poverty is a record of not only the Lecture itself, but also of the ideas available to government and their influence on its leader at an important moment in the formation of policy. It provides a rich tapestry on analysis, insight and reflection that will, it is to be hoped, stimulate critical debate about the future shape of British welfare.
This collection is essential reading for anyone interested in the future of modern society and politics and provides an accessible handbook for undergraduate students of politics, social policy and sociology.
Table of Contents
- Contents: Foreword ~ Lord Butler
- Section One: Welfare for the 21st century: Introduction ~ Robert Walker
- Beveridge revisited: a welfare state for the 21st century ~ Tony Blair
- Section Two: Contributions: A. Beveridge and his legacy: Beveridge and the Beveridge Report - life, ideas, influence ~ Jose Harris
- Beveridge and the 21st century ~ Tony Atkinson
- Beveridge and New Labour: poverty then and now ~ John Hills
- B. Modern social justice: Notes on social justice and the welfare state ~ Anthony Giddens
- Social justice ~ Raymond Plant
- Conceptions of social justice ~ Julian Le Grand
- Equality of access ~ Peter Kellner
- The balance of rights and responsibilities within welfare reform ~ Alan Deacon
- C. Social justice into practice: The New Right and New Labour ~ David Piachaud
- A modern party of social justice: achievements and missed opportunities ~ Ruth Lister
- Social security: a cornerstone of modern justice ~ Robert Walker
- Making welfare work ~ Polly Toynbee
- The new welfare ~ Bob Holman
- Section Three: Responses: A poor press? Media reception of the Beveridge Lecture ~ Simon Cross and Peter Golding
- Dimensions of the debate: reflections on the Beveridge Lecture ~ Robert Walker.
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