<p>Examines the social policy of Germany, France, Sweden, Britain, Italy, Greece, and Spain, focusing on their common problem of finding money for social programs over the past 15 years, and their various approaches to dealing with the problem based on interactions between political and economic factors. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.</p>

European Welfare Policy: Squaring the Welfare Circle

Politics & Social Sciences

Vic George

Politics & Government

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

This book provides an analysis of the sustainability of modern British society. Its core chapters explore five major aspects of contemporary Britain where developments seem to threaten society's sustainability--work, the family, the environment, social division, and law and order. It looks at the current situation in each area, examines recent changes and government responses, and explores why changes have happened; the authors then critically review conventional and radical policy proposals for resolving the problems.

British Society and Social Welfare: Towards a Sustainable Society

History

Europe

St.Martin's Press

This is an important introduction to a range of issues and questions studied throughout the social sciences. It examines the changes that have taken place in the areas of work, the family, the environment, crime and social division in Britain during the past twenty years. It explores the explanations for these changes and a range of policy responses to them, including the policies pursued by governments during the 1980s and 1990s, those advocated by conventional and radical approaches, and those proposed by the authors in the interests of creating a sustainable welfare society in Britain.

Paul Wilding

Social Sciences

British society is going through a period of rapid economic, social and cultural change. There is evidence of significant and far-ranging changes for the better as old hierarchies and divisions are challenged and eroded. But major new problems also threaten. Full employment is a thing of the past. The traditional family seems to be crumbling away. We are threatened by environmental disaster within a generation. The gap between the rich and the poor is widening. In spite of recent reductions in crime, the issue of law and order is seldom out of the news or far from our minds. This book gives a sharp, critical and highly readable appraisal of these five key aspects of modern Britain - what the situation actually is (based on a wealth of valuable empirical data), how and why it has been changing, and what the government response has been. It then explores and critically reviews a rich array of conventional and more radical policy proposals for tackling the problems. The first and last chapters provide the essential context, exploring whether and why Britain seems to have become a less stable society in the last 25 years and analysing the nature and basis of a genuinely sustainable society. The issues expertly explored in this book are of central importance to all of us. They are about the quality of life in contemporary Britain, the society we shall pass on to the next generation and the future sustainability of our society.

British Society and Social Welfare : Towards a Sustainable Society

Sociology

Palgrave MacMillan Ltd

Ideology and Social Welfare (Radical Social Policy Series)

Routledge

Wealth, Poverty and Starvation

Wealth, Poverty and Starvation: An International Perspective

Business & Money

Economics

Imprint unknown

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

Harvester/Wheatsheaf

Social Policy Towards 2000: Squaring the Welfare Circle

Prof Vic George

Stewart Miller

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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