Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of photographs and sources
- Foreword
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction Owning not othering our welfare
- Part One The legacy of the past
- Part Two The way to the future
- Afterword The future: a different way forward?
- Appendix One The family
- Appendix Two Research projects and related publications
- References
- Index
Part One - The legacy of the past
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 September 2022
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of photographs and sources
- Foreword
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction Owning not othering our welfare
- Part One The legacy of the past
- Part Two The way to the future
- Afterword The future: a different way forward?
- Appendix One The family
- Appendix Two Research projects and related publications
- References
- Index
Summary
Conventional accounts of social policy have tended to present it as a battle between welfare state past and a more pluralist present; between paternalistic central planning and a drive for personalised choice and control, or most baldly, between neoliberal market and old style ‘statism’. The aim of the first part of the book is to try and get a better understanding of current trends in social policy and possible futures, by looking more carefully at their relationships with the past and with people on the receiving end. It also sets the scene for an exploration of how we look after each other, which places an emphasis on it as a participatory and democratic project.
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- All our WelfareTowards Participatory Social Policy, pp. 11 - 12Publisher: Bristol University PressPrint publication year: 2016