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Author Leonard, Peter, 1930-

Title Postmodern welfare : reconstructing an emancipatory project / Peter Leonard
Published London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 1997

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 187 pages)
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1. Argument -- Welfare State Under Attack -- Challenge to Modernity -- Postmodern -- Postmodernity? -- Subject of Modernity and Postmodernity -- Modernity and the Discourse of Welfare -- What Follows Deconstruction? -- Past as Another Country -- Present as an Uncertain Place -- Future as Illusion or Possibility -- 2. Subject -- Subject as Socially Constituted -- Virtue of Work -- Consumption and Desire -- Family -- Sexuality -- Identities and Bodies -- Subject as Agent -- Subject of Welfare -- Dependent Subject -- Body and the Gaze -- Interdependent Subject and the Collectivity -- 3. Culture -- Deconstructing Culture -- Culture, Difference and Critique -- Cross-cultural Communication and Racism -- Culture, Art, Politics -- 4. Organization -- Modern Organization -- Postmodern Critique of Bureaucracy -- Modern Expert -- Postmodern Organization -- Politics of Alternative Organization -- 5. Economy -- Discursive Shift -- Globalization -- Flexible Accumulation/Post-Fordism -- Lean Production and Re-engineering -- New Economies and New Social Discourses -- Economy and Welfare -- 6. Politics -- Critical Marxism and Political Action -- Politics Under Postmodern Conditions -- Ethical Judgements Without Rules? -- Social Movements and Social Identity -- Interdependence and Collective Action -- 7. Reconstruction -- Ethics of Reconstruction -- Objectives of Welfare as Emancipation -- Strategies of Resistance and Welfare Building -- State, Party, Difference
Summary 'Postmodern Welfare' places postmodernism firmly on the agenda of contemporary debates about the welfare state. It is the first book to explain systematically the significance of postmodernism for understanding social welfare
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-184) and index
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Subject Welfare state.
Postmodernism -- Political aspects
Postmodernism -- Social aspects
71.80 social policy: general.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Services.
Postmodernism -- Political aspects
Postmodernism -- Social aspects
Welfare state
Postmoderne
Sozialpolitik
Spätkapitalismus
Theorie
Wohlfahrtsstaat
Entwicklung
Verzorgingsstaat.
Postmodernisme.
Filosofische aspecten.
Welfare state.
Postmodernism -- Political aspects.
Postmodernism -- Social aspects.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 97065514
ISBN 9780857026057
0857026054
9781446278895
1446278891
0803976097
9780803976092