| Description |
xiii, 263 pages ; 22 cm |
| Series |
State of welfare |
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State of welfare.
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| Contents |
1. Towards a post-Fordist welfare state? The restructuring of Britain, social policy and the future of welfare / Brian Loader and Roger Burrows -- 2. The transition to post-Fordism and the Schumpeterian workfare state / Bob Jessop -- 3. The politics of the modernisation of the UK welfare state / Paul Hoggett -- 4. Social relations, welfare and the post-Fordism debate / Fiona Williams -- 5. Prisoners of the Beveridge dream? The political mobilisation of the poor against contemporary welfare regimes / Paul Bagguley -- 6. Continuity and discontinuity in the emergence of the 'post-Fordist' welfare state / Christopher Pierson -- 7. Restructuring the local welfare state / Allan Cochrane -- 8. Planning for and against the divided city: a case study of the north east of England / David Byrne -- 9. Public services and local economic regeneration in a post-Fordist economy / Mike Geddes -- 10. Flexibility in higher education / Michael Rustin |
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11. Labour flexibility and the changing welfare state: is there a post-Fordist model? / Steven Pinch -- 12. Consumers, consumption and post-Fordism / Alan Warde |
| Summary |
This text examines the implications of applying post-Fordism, with its greater emphasis on the individual, freedom of choice and flexibility, to contemporary restructuring of the British welfare state |
| Analysis |
Public services |
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Public services |
| Notes |
Bibliography: p239-254. - Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-254) and indexes |
| Subject |
Public welfare -- Great Britain.
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Welfare state -- Great Britain.
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Welfare state.
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- Social policy.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90001105
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| Author |
Burrows, Roger, 1962-
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Loader, Brian, 1958-
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| LC no. |
93042527 |
| ISBN |
0415099676 |
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0415099684 |
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