Rethinking Welfare: A Critical Perspective

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SAGE, 09.07.2002 - 211 Seiten
`I would encourage undergraduates students to read it, for it does summarise well a classical Marxist analysis of social policy and welfare' - Social Policy

The anti-capitalist movement is increasingly challenging the global hegemony of neo-liberalism. The arguments against the neo-liberal agenda are clearly articulated in Rethinking Welfare. The authors highlight the growing inequalities and decimation of state welfare, and use Marxist approaches to contemporary social policy to provide a defence of the welfare state.

Divided into three main sections, the first part of this volume looks at the growth of inequality, and social and environmental degradation.

Part Two centres on the authors' argument for the relevance of core Marxists concepts in aiding our understanding of social policy. This section includes Marxist approaches to a range of welfare issues, and their implications for studying welfare regimes and practices.

Issues covered include:

· Class and class struggle

· Opression

· Alienation and the family

The last part of the book explores the question of globalization and the consequences of international neo-liberalism on indebted countries as well as the neo-liberal agenda of the Conservative and New Labour governments in Britain. The authors conclude with the prospect of an alternative welfare future which may form part of the challenge against global neo-liberalism.

 

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Defining Quality Values Stakeholders and Processes
1
Working in Conflict Developing a Dynamic Model of Quality
10
Looking at Quality from the Childs Perspective
28
Defining and Valuing Quality As a Parent
43
Measure for Measure Values Quality and Evaluation
61
Quality in SchoolAge Child Care Services An Inquiry About Values
76
No Equality No Quality
92
Developing CrossCultural Partnerships Implications for Child Care Quality Research and Practice
108
The New Zealand Experience of Charter Development in Early Childhood Services
123
Fragments for a Discussion About Quality
142
Evaluation and Regulation a Question of Empowerment
157
Towards an Inclusionary Approach in Defining Quality
172
Index
181
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