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Class Struggle and Social Welfare
Contributor(s): Lavalette, Michael (Editor), Mooney, Gerry (Editor)
ISBN: 0415201055     ISBN-13: 9780415201056
Publisher: Routledge
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Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: March 2000
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Annotation: For too long the collective struggles of the oppressed over welfare provision and welfare settlement have been ignored, yet such struggles punctuate recent British history. By presenting a series of case studies of episodes of collective action from the field of social policy and social welfare, this book aims to rediscover this "hidden history."
Organized chronologically, the book covers some of the most important welfare struggles from the nineteenth century to the present.
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BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Public Policy - Social Policy
- Political Science | Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare
Dewey: 361.610
LCCN: 99052995
Series: State of Welfare
Physical Information: 0.99" H x 8.46" W x 5.36" (0.85 lbs) 296 pages
 
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For too long the collective struggles of the oppressed over welfare provision and welfare settlement have been ignored, yet such struggles punctuate recent British history. By presenting a series of case-studies of episodes of collective action from the field of social policy and social welfare, Class Struggle and Welfare aims to rediscover this 'hidden history'.
Organised chronologically, the book covers some of the most important welfare struggles from the early nineteenth century, some of the issues covered are:
*the growth of capitalism
*the development of the poor laws and the anti-poor law movement
*working class self-help welfare in the nineteenth century
*rent strikes on the Clyde in 1920s
*the squatters movement in the 1950s
*the struggle for abortion rights
*an analysis of the urban riots in the 1980s
*the great poll tax rebellion.