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Description

1. xvi, 211 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

1. Challenges the current social policy with its emphasis on the role of legislation alone in bringing about social improvement in a welfare state. Argues that welfare reconstruction needs to address and channel the differing roles of self-interest, self-improvement, and altruism.

Subject

1. Since 1979
2. Geschichte 1945-2000
3. Public welfare > Great Britain
4. Welfare state
5. Public welfare
6. Social policy
7. Welfare state
8. Sozialpolitik
9. welfare state
10. social security
11. social security reform
12. work incentive
13. social policy
14. political aspect
15. unemployment
16. social problem
17. income distribution
18. guaranteed income
19. low income
20. poverty
21. supplementary benefit
22. social assistance
23. one parent family
24. family benefit
25. women workers
26. older people
27. old age benefit
28. pension scheme
29. motivation
30. self help
31. statistical table
32. État providence
33. Aide sociale > Grande-Bretagne > 1990-
34. Etat-providence
35. sécurité sociale
36. réforme de la sécurité sociale
37. incitation au travail
38. politique sociale
39. aspect politique
40. chômage
41. problème social
42. répartition du revenu
43. revenu garanti
44. faible revenu
45. pauvreté
46. prestations supplémentaires
47. assistance sociale
48. famille monoparentale
49. prestations familiales
50. travailleuses
51. personnes âgées
52. prestations de vieillesse
53. régime de pension
54. auto-assistance
55. tableau statistique
56. seguridad social
57. reforma de la seguridad social
58. incentivo al trabajo
59. política social
60. aspecto político
61. desempleo
62. problema social
63. distribución del ingreso
64. ingreso garantizado
65. bajos ingresos
66. pobreza
67. prestación suplementaria
68. asistencia social
69. hogar con un solo progenitor
70. prestaciones familiares
71. trabajadoras
72. personas de edad avanzada
73. prestaciones de vejez
74. régimen de pensiones
75. motivación
76. autoayuda
77. cuadros estadísticos
78. Estado benefactor
79. Great Britain > Social policy > 1979-
80. Great Britain
81. Großbritannien
82. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
83. Grande-Bretagne > Politique sociale
84. Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande du Nord
85. Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda del Norte

Genre/Form

1. graph.
2. graphique.
3. gráfico.

Contents

1. The Fivefold Agenda -- The Causes of Welfare Expenditure -- Welfare and Behaviour -- Contract Welfare -- Universalism: The Goal -- Welfare and Democracy -- Joined Up Policy -- How to Pay for the Future -- The New Barbarism -- Ghetto Politics -- The Disinherited Male -- Destroying Self-Respect and Self-Improvement -- The New Male -- Permanent Adolescence -- Cutting the Supply Routes -- The Drug Trade -- Inner City Apartheid -- Outside the Ghetto -- The Winter of Our Discontent -- Voters' Dismay -- The Poor's Response -- Politicians' Dismay -- The Flawed Vision -- Welfare's Fault-Lines -- Poverty Studies -- Beveridge's Second Coming -- First Thoughts -- Excluding Women -- Excluding the Disabled -- Renting a Failure -- Extending the Fault-Lines -- Government Cuts -- The White Paper Chase -- Yet More Cuts -- Minimum Income Levels -- A National Minimum -- Charles Booth -- Seebohm Rowntree -- The Poverty Line's Political Impact -- From Theory to Practice -- The Beveridge Report -- Social Insecurity -- Who Is Getting What? -- Single Parents and Poverty -- Poverty's Younger Face -- Poor Law Revival -- Half the Population on Means Tests -- Cheating the Taxpayer -- The Disintegrating Socio-Economic Landscape -- Today's Uncertain World -- Revolution in the Job Market -- The Rise and Rise of Part-Time Work -- The Disinherited Male -- The Pay Revolution -- Inequality in Incomes -- The Impact of Tax Changes -- The Rise and Rise of Single Parents -- Fraud -- The Very Elderly -- A Stakeholder's Welfare.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-207) and index.