Introduction

This chapter summarises the key points of Making Welfare Work which are elaborated upon in the text. Making Welfare Work argues that the impact which legislation has on character is pivotal to human advance. Any welfare reconstruction needs to address and channel the differing roles of self-interest, self-improvement, and altruism, which are among the great driving forces in human character. Making Welfare Work also attempts to realign the British debate in a number of additional respects. Making Welfare Work's programme aligns with the electorate's wish for a greater control over their own affairs. It sets out a series of social as opposed to state collective initiatives. Making Welfare Work fleshes out what joint public and private initiatives should mean. The traditional left's idea of universalised provision is applied to the private sector. Stakeholder welfare provision ushers in a period of popular or social, as opposed to state, collectivism.