Welfare and Ideology explores the positions of six major ideological schools of thought towards the welfare state of today and the future: the New Right, the Middle Way, Democratic Socialism, Marxism, Feminism and Greenism. The book analyses how these ideologies interpret the development of the welfare state; their support or opposition to the welfare state; their views on social services; their ideas for change, and what they consider to be their ideal society. As debate continues on the future of state welfare, Welfare and Ideology is essential reading for students and teachers in all the social sciences, as well as those who wish to understand the depth and breadth of the politics of welfare in all industrial societies.

Welfare and Ideology

Engineering & Transportation

Wilding, Paul

George, Vic

Engineering

Harvester/Wheatsheaf

Globalisation and Human Welfare

This thematically structured text offers an ideal introduction to the positive and negative effects of globalization on human welfare in industrial and developing societies. It documents the effects of globalization on economic growth, income distribution, poverty, education, health, social care and the environment. It pays special attention to the effects of globalization on ethnic and gender issues and concludes with an assessment of the possibilities of global social policy. It will appeal to undergraduates in the social sciences both as a basic text and a reference book.

Business & Money

Economics

Red Globe Press

This thematically structured text offers an ideal introduction to the positive and negative effects of globalization on human welfare in industrial and developing societies. It documents the effects of globalization on economic growth, income distribution

Governments in all advanced industrial societies are involved in an endless struggle of how to 'square the welfare circle', as demand for public services rises due to demographic, social and labour market foctors. Government ability to finance this rising tide of public service demand is constrained by economic and, at times, ideological factors but failure to make welfare provision has adverse electoral consequeces. This is not an issue which is likely to go away. Social Policy Towards 2000 examines the issues and factors affecting the welfare state and by comparing the proposals of the three main UK political parties for the welfare system for the remaining part of the decade, offers a prospective analysis of the future of welfare.

Social Policy Towards 2000: Squaring the Welfare Circle

Politics & Social Sciences

Miller, Stewart

George, Prof Vic

Social Sciences

Routledge

European Welfare Futures: Towards a Theory of Retrenchment

European Welfare Futures presents a clear and up-to-date analysis of developments in social policy in the main EU member states. It provides a systematic account of welfare retrenchment and assesses the competing explanations of this process. The authors provide convincing evidence for the view that an 'ever closer union' in social policy will require a much more difficult process than that which led to monetary union.   The book makes a major contribution to understanding how welfare policy in Europe will develop over the next few years. It offers an original and wide-ranging account of the forces affecting the direction of policy, and stresses the role of social and political institutions in explaining why countries differ.   European Welfare Futures will be essential reading for undergraduates, graduate students and scholars in social policy, sociology, political science, area studies and international relations courses. It will also be of great interest to policy-makers in the EU, especially in the areas of pensions, health, social care and unemployment.

Taylor-Gooby, Peter

Bonoli, Giuliano

Politics & Government

Polity

European Welfare Futures presents a clear and up-to-date analysis of developments in social policy in the main EU member states. It provides a systematic account of welfare retrenchment and assesses the competing explanations of this process. The authors provide convincing evidence for the view that an 'ever closer union' in social policy will require a much more difficult process than that which led to monetary union. The book makes a major contribution to understanding how welfare policy in Europe will develop over the next few years. It offers an original and wide-ranging account of the forces affecting the direction of policy, and stresses the role of social and political institutions in explaining why countries differ. European Welfare Futures will be essential reading for undergraduates, graduate students and scholars in social policy, sociology, political science, area studies and international relations courses. It will also be of great interest to policy-makers in the EU, especially in the areas of pensions, health, social care and unemployment.

First published in 1980, Socialism, Social Welfare and the Soviet Union examines the views of Marx, Engels and Lenin on what constitutes a socialist form of provision of social security, income, education, health and housing. The authors discuss the implementation of these ideas in the Soviet Union since the 1917 Revolution in the context of economic and political development, and describe the social services in the Soviet Union, assessing the extent to which the original ideas have been matched by reality. They also briefly survey the views of several East European academic writers on social policy, outlining some distinctive features of social policy in the Eastern bloc. 
The authors’ general conclusion is that the Soviet Union has made great progress in social policy provision; from their research and from their visits in the course of writing this book, they show that the social services of the Soviet Union are as good as and, in some ways, more comprehensive than those of Western Europe. Equally important is their conclusion that a society in which the means of production and distribution are nationalised, and which makes a full provision of social services is not necessarily a socialist society. This book will appeal to students of sociology, political science and area studies.

Socialism, Social Welfare and the Soviet Union (Routledge Revivals)

Manning, Nicholas

Reference

Major Thinkers in Welfare: Contemporary Issues in Historical Perspective

With unprecedented breadth, Major Thinkers in Welfare examines a host of views and theories on a range of welfare issues—including wealth, poverty, inequality, slavery, gender, family, education, crime, and the role of governments and markets in society—from ancient Greece to the end of the nineteenth century. Contextualizing the theorists with a look at their social values and perceptions of human nature, it offers one of the most complete histories of the thought of social welfare and highlights important historical complexities for some of the most urgent contemporary problems.

Policy Press

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Welfare and Ideology

Globalisation and Human Welfare

Globalisation and Human Welfare

Social Policy Towards 2000: Squaring the Welfare Circle

European Welfare Futures: Towards a Theory of Retrenchment

European Welfare Futures: Towards a Theory of Retrenchment

Socialism, Social Welfare and the Soviet Union (Routledge Revivals)

Major Thinkers in Welfare: Contemporary Issues in Historical Perspective