Bringing together the voices of leading experts in the field, this edition offers an up-to-date and diverse review of the best in social policy scholarship over the past year. The book considers a range of current issues and critical debates in UK and international social policy field. It contains vital research, including discussions on the changing landscape of occupational as well as corporate welfare in the UK, the continuing impact of austerity on various social policy areas and the challenges currently faced by the NHS. Published in association with the SPA, this comprehensive analysis of the current state of social policy will be of interest to students and academics in social policy, social welfare and related disciplines.
Part One: A decade of social policy since the crisis - looking back and forward ~ Elke Heins The English National Health Service in a cold climate: a decade of austerity ~ Martin Powell Disability and austerity: the perfect storm of attacks on social rights ~ Kirstein Rummery Financialisation and social protection? The UK's path towards a socially protective public-private pension system ~ Paul Bridgen Towards a whole-economy approach to the welfare state: citizens, corporations and the state within the broad welfare mix ~ Kevin Farnsworth From welfare state to participation society: austerity, ideology or rhetoric? ~ Menno Fenger and Babs Broekema Part Two: Developments in social policy and contributions from the Social Policy Association Conference 2018 ~ James Rees and Catherine Needham From the Windrush Generation to the 'Air Jamaica generation': local authority support for families with no recourse to public funds ~ Andy Jolly Alt-Right 'cultural purity', ideology and mainstream social policy discourse: towards a political anthropology of 'mainstremeist' ideology ~ Julia Lux and John David Jordan The moving frontier and beyond: the third sector and social policy ~ Rob Macmillan and Jeremy Kendall Local variations in implementing energy-efficiency policy: how third sector organisations influenced cities' responses to the Green Deal ~ Rebecca Ince Is the 'lump of labour' a self-evident fallacy? The case of Great Britain ~ Jacques Wels and John Macnicol Family as a socio-economic actor in the political economy of welfare ~ Theodoros Papadopoulos and Antonios Roumpakis
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