This collection deals with the central questions which have emerged from the break-up of the postwar political consensus around the welfare state. A series of distinguished contributors, including exponents of alternative positions on welfare from the right, left and centre, examine key issues in the disputes over the relationship between the state and welfare.
Individual chapters both explore the different political and theoretical issues in the debate, and concentrate on their application in key areas of social policy. Particular attention is given to the role of social work, and public policy and the family. The final section of the book examines the political sources of the current crisis of social policy, and the prospects for a resolution of the crisis of the welfare state.
The State or the Market is a set book on the Open University Course D211, Social Problems and Social Welfare.
PART ONE: PRIVATE GRIEFS AND PUBLIC SORROWS
Social Problems - Tom Hulley and John Clarke
Social Construction and Social Causation
The Undeserving Poor - John Ditch
Unemployed People, Then and Now
The Social Construction of Dependency in Old Age - Alan Walker
The Future of Social Work - Joan Cooper
A Pragmatic View
The Future of Social Work - Patrick Minford
A View From the New Right
Hazardous Lives - Social Work in the 1980s - Ann Davis
A View From the Left
Child Sexual Abuse - Mary Macleod and Esther Saraga
Challenging the Orthodoxy
PART TWO: PUBLIC POLICY AND THE FAMILY
The Unnatural Family - Felicity Edholm
Securing the Family? - Carol Smart
Rhetoric and Policy in the Field of Social Security
Family Matters and Public Policy - Malcolm Wicks
The Asian Mother and Baby Campaign - Yvette Rocheron
The Construction of Ethnic Minorities' Health Needs
PART THREE: RESTRUCTURING THE WELFARE STATE
The Break-Up of Consensus - Nevil Johnson
Competitive Politics in a Declining Economy
Understanding the Market - Norman Barry
Towards the Remoralization of Society - Stephen Davies
The Weakening of Social Democracy - Andrew Gamble
The New Municipal Socialism - Geoff Green
Living on Welfare - Jeremy Seabrook
The Welfare State as Part of a Racially Structured and Patriarchal Capitalism - Fiona Williams
PART FOUR: SOCIAL SCIENCE AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS
The Contribution of Social Science - Jennifer Platt
