Imagining Welfare Futures Contributor(s): Hughes, Gordon (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415181356 ISBN-13: 9780415181358 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $218.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 1998 Annotation: "Imagining Welfare Futures" considers the kinds of relationships between the public and the state that will shape the future of social welfare and book explores the emergence of new representations of the public, based around the figures of the consumer, the community and the citizen. It examines the possibilities and problems associated with each of these as ways of imagining the relationships between the state, the public and social welfare. The contributors initiate a timely analysis that takes up questions such as how the state can provide for public good or if welfare has a responsibility in building social solidarity or providing rights, among others. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare - Social Science | Social Work |
Dewey: 361.609 |
LCCN: 99158010 |
Series: Social Policy: Welfare, Power and Diversity |
Physical Information: 0.65" H x 7.64" W x 9.94" (1.34 lbs) 224 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Imagining Welfare Futures explores possible futures of welfare by considering different types of relationship between the public and the state through which social welfare may be organized beyond the millennium. By drawing on contemporary debates about the 'citizen', 'the community' and 'the consumer', the book explores what each of these imaginary figures might mean for the next generation of welfare users. |