Contents

pp iii-iv

List of figures and tables

pp v-vi

Notes on contributors

pp vii-x

Part I - A decade of social policy since the crisis – looking back and forward

pp 1-6

1 - The English National Health Service in a cold climate: a decade of austerity

pp 7-28

2 - Disability and austerity: the perfect storm of attacks on social rights

pp 29-46

3 - Financialisation and social protection? The UK’s path towards a socially protective public–private pension system

pp 47-70

4 - Towards a whole-economy approach to the welfare state: citizens, corporations and the state within the broad welfare mix

pp 71-100

5 - From welfare state to participation society: austerity, ideology or rhetoric?

pp 101-124

Part II - Developments in social policy and contributions from the Social Policy Association Conference 2018

pp 125-128

6 - From the Windrush Generation to the ‘Air Jamaica generation’: local authority support for families with no recourse to public funds

pp 129-150

7 - Alt-Right ‘cultural purity’, ideology and mainstream social policy discourse: towards a political anthropology of ‘mainstremeist’ ideology

pp 151-176

8 - The moving frontier and beyond: the third sector and social policy

pp 177-196

9 - Local variations in implementing energy-efficiency policy: how third sector organisations influenced cities’ responses to the Green Deal

pp 197-220

10 - Is the ‘lump of labour’ a self-evident fallacy? The case of Great Britain

pp 221-242

11 - Family as a socio-economic actor in the political economy of welfare

pp 243-266

Index

pp 267-280