This book offers insights into the development of social welfare policies by exploring the interconnections between policies and practice throughout history.
It challenges tacitly accepted arguments that favour particular approaches to welfare, such as conditionality and eligibility. It provides examples of enduring social assumptions which influence the way we perform social welfare, such as the equivocal position of women in social welfare and the unintended consequences...
Tabella dei contenuti
1. Concepts, Continuities and Critique
2. A Brief History of British Social Welfare
3. Philosophical Binaries and Normative Judgements
4. Chocolate, Fl...
Circa l’autore
Jonathan Parker is Professor of Society & Social Welfare at Bournemouth University, UK, and University of Stavanger, Norway