| Welfare: Needs, Rights and Risks Contributor(s): Langan, Mary (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415181283 ISBN-13: 9780415181280 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $54.10 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 1998 Annotation: By looking at contemporary concerns about access to social welfare, "Welfare" examines how social problems involve different principles of needs, rights and entitlements for users of welfare services. This book looks at how the pressure to contain public spending has led to concerns with setting priorities, targeting and rationing in the provision of public services. These are examined through an exploration of the construction of health, social care and need, "dangerous" youth, "deviant families" and the "underclass." |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Social Work - Political Science | Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare - Political Science | Public Policy - Social Policy |
| Dewey: 362.509 |
| LCCN: 97048927 |
| Series: Social Policy: Welfare, Power and Diversity |
| Physical Information: 0.72" H x 7.56" W x 9.68" (1.55 lbs) 292 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Welfare: Needs, Rights and Risks addresses the question of how people get access to social welfare in the UK today. It explores the public, political and professional definitions, constructions and conflicts about who should receive social welfare and under what conditions. In a period during which the rationing, targeting and selective provision of welfare have become more significant, more visible and more disputed, this book examines how individuals and groups come to be defined as in need, at risk or deserving of welfare. |