Analysing the history of British social welfare : compassion, coercion and beyond
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Analysing the history of British social welfare : compassion, coercion and beyond
Policy Press, 2023
- : hardcover
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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. 185-227) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
1. Concepts, Continuities and Critique
2. A Brief History of British Social Welfare
3. Philosophical Binaries and Normative Judgements
4. Chocolate, Flowers and Social Welfare Reform
5. War: The Paradoxical Crucible of Welfare Reform
6. Gendered Perspectives on Welfare
7. Piacular Austerity: Sacrificing the Poor for the Rich
8. Universal Credit vs. Universal Basic Income: Strange Bedfellows?
9. Containing the Radicals and Regulating the 'Other': A History of the Strange Case of Social Work
10. W(h)ither Welfare After Brexit and COVID-19?
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