Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgement
- Preface
- General introduction: Robert Pinker on rethinking approaches to welfare
- Introduction to Part One On social policy studies
- one The ends and means of social policy: a personal and generational perspective
- two Social theory and social policy: a challenging relationship
- three Stigma and social welfare
- four The welfare state: a comparative perspective
- five Richard Titmuss and the making of British social policy studies after the Second World War: a reappraisal
- Introduction to Part Two On social care, communities and the conditions for well-being
- six Report of the Working Party on the Role and Tasks of Social Workers: an alternative view
- seven The quest for community: from the Settlement Movement to the Griffiths Report: an historical perspective
- eight Citizenship, civil war and welfare: the making of modern Ireland
- Introduction to Part Three On welfare pluralism
- nine Golden Ages and welfare alchemists
- ten From gift relationships to quasi-markets: an odyssey along the policy paths of altruism and egoism
- eleven The experience of citizenship: a generational perspective
- twelve The right to welfare
- thirteen The prospects for social policy in the UK after the 2015 General Election
- Afterword On the post-Brexit prospects for social policy in the UK
- References
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 April 2022
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgement
- Preface
- General introduction: Robert Pinker on rethinking approaches to welfare
- Introduction to Part One On social policy studies
- one The ends and means of social policy: a personal and generational perspective
- two Social theory and social policy: a challenging relationship
- three Stigma and social welfare
- four The welfare state: a comparative perspective
- five Richard Titmuss and the making of British social policy studies after the Second World War: a reappraisal
- Introduction to Part Two On social care, communities and the conditions for well-being
- six Report of the Working Party on the Role and Tasks of Social Workers: an alternative view
- seven The quest for community: from the Settlement Movement to the Griffiths Report: an historical perspective
- eight Citizenship, civil war and welfare: the making of modern Ireland
- Introduction to Part Three On welfare pluralism
- nine Golden Ages and welfare alchemists
- ten From gift relationships to quasi-markets: an odyssey along the policy paths of altruism and egoism
- eleven The experience of citizenship: a generational perspective
- twelve The right to welfare
- thirteen The prospects for social policy in the UK after the 2015 General Election
- Afterword On the post-Brexit prospects for social policy in the UK
- References
- Index
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- Social Policy and Welfare PluralismSelected Writings of Robert Pinker, pp. i - iiPublisher: Bristol University PressPrint publication year: 2017