ABSTRACT
The volumes in this set, originally published between 1940 and 1994, draw together research by leading academics in the area of welfare and the state, and provide a rigorous examination of related key issues. The volume examines the concepts of welfare in relation to the state through the areas of policy making, social administration, class division and social inequality, social policy and privatization, whilst also exploring the general principles and practices of the welfare state in various countries. This set will be of particular interest to students of sociology, politics, economics, social work respectively.
1. Approaches to Welfare 2. Theories of Welfare 3. Social Security and Society 4. Social Security: Beveridge and After 5. Not Only the Poor: The Middle Classes and the Welfare State 6. Social Welfare and the Failure of the State: Centralised Social Services and Participatory Alternatives 7. The Unemployment Services: A Report Prepared for the Fabian Society 8. Self Help in Health and Social Welfare: England and West Germany 9. Automatic Poverty 10. Freedom and the Welfare State 11. Paupers 12. Privatisation and the Welfare State 13. The Strategy of Equality: Redistribution and the Social Services 14. The Role of Voluntary Organisations in Social Welfare 15. The Emergence of the Welfare State in Britain and Germany: 1850-1950 16. Contradictions of the Welfare State 17. Welfare State and Welfare Society: Illusion and Reality 18. The Welfare State: Its Aims, Benefits and Costs 19. Sociology and Social Welfare 20. The Origins of British Social Policy 21. Social Welfare: Why and How? 22. Talking About Welfare 23. The Unservile State: Essays in Liberty and Welfare 24. Pressure for the Poor: The Poverty Lobby and Policy Making 25. The Politics of the Welfare State
