| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Front Cover -- Analysing the History of British Social Welfare: Compassion, Coercion and Beyond -- Copyright information -- Table of Contents -- List of tables -- List of abbreviations -- About the author -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Concepts, continuities and critique -- Conceptualising social welfare -- What is welfare? -- Discourses and power -- Habitus, capital, fields and practices -- Everyday practices -- Ambivalence and social welfare -- Overview of the book -- 2 A brief history of British social welfare -- Care and welfare before human recorded histories |
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Early roots of welfare: religion and charity -- The English Poor Law -- Towards reform -- Poor Law (Amendment) Act 1834 -- 20th-century changes in welfare: towards the welfare state and beyond -- The conditions for welfare reform -- Birth and growth of the welfare state -- Impact of the welfare state -- Rolling back the frontiers of the state: the New Right and welfare -- Communitarianism and the social contract: New Labour and welfare -- Welfare reform: the crash, the Coalition and the Conservatives -- 3 Philosophical binaries and normative judgements |
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Binary opposition and distinction: developing normativity in social welfare -- Vagabonds, beggars and the impotent poor -- Deserving and undeserving Victorians -- Universalism? -- Populist discourses in the contemporary world -- Conclusions -- 4 Chocolate, flowers and social welfare reform -- Charity, philanthropy and civil society -- Chocolate, flowers and key philanthropic families -- Prison reform -- Elizabeth Fry and women prisoners -- Cadbury, Bournville and Rowntree -- James Reckitt and garden villages -- Rowntree, Booth and the social survey -- 19th-century charitable bodies |
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Continuing philanthropy, charitable giving and civil society -- Conclusions -- 5 War: the paradoxical crucible of welfare reform -- War, conflict and welfare demands -- The late 18th century to Poor Law reform -- First World War -- Interwar years -- Second World War -- The war in Iraq -- Conclusions -- 6 Gendered perspectives on welfare -- Women under the Poor Law and 'bastardy' -- Surveillance and the Poor Laws -- Hidden women in welfare and women hidden in welfare -- Providing and administering the Poor Law -- Family allowances -- Welfare state typologies and gender relations |
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Women and the current COVID-19 crisis: an equality issue -- Conclusions -- 7 Piacular austerity: sacrificing the poor for the rich -- Piacular rites -- The historical sacrificing of the poor -- Austerity and welfare reform in the 2000s -- Policy -- Disability -- Employment and mental health -- Housing -- Food banks -- COVID-19 lockdown and sacrifice -- Conclusions -- 8 Universal Credit versus Universal Basic Income: strange bedfellows? -- Universal Credit? Ways of reducing welfare administration to address poverty -- Universal Basic Income: novel schemes from different perspectives |
| Summary |
This book offers insights into the development of social welfare policies in Britain. By identifying continuities in welfare policy, practice and thought throughout history, it offers the potential for the development of new thinking, policy making and practice |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 10, 2023) |
| Subject |
Public welfare -- Great Britain -- History
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Public welfare -- Great Britain
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy.
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Social policy
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Public welfare
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- Social policy -- History
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Great Britain -- Social policy.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90001105
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781447363729 |
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1447363728 |
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