Download or read book The Class Struggle and Welfare Social Policy under Capitalism written by David Matthews and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2025-01-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With The Class Struggle and Welfare, David Matthews argues that we must understand the welfare state as a dialectical phenomenon—a product of class struggle. Confronting the hypocritical rhetoric of politicians who castigate welfare beneficiaries as lazy and “workshy,” Matthews points to clear evidence that the welfare state is essential to the prosperity and health of capitalist economies. At the same time, in the Marxist tradition, Matthews moves well beyond an analysis of welfare as simply an instrument wielded by capitalism for its benefit, arguing that proof of the class struggle scars the surface of every welfare system. With chapters focusing on welfare issues, including social security, health, disability, housing, and education, Matthews examines historical and current developments in Britain as a basis for a wider understanding of the relationship between capitalism and welfare. The Class Struggle and Welfare shows that as welfare states grew exponentially throughout the advanced capitalist world over the course of a century, the intents, purposes and perceptions of the institution of welfare underwent a dialectical transformation. On the one hand, the services offered served to bolster capitalism. On the other hand, welfare systems in and of themselves were born of class struggle. In turn, even as current welfare systems reflect the values and the needs of the capitalist arena, the influence and imprint of the working class is plain to see. The Class Struggle and Welfare ultimately looks to the future, arguing that the working class must consider an alternative type of welfare system—one which looks beyond the state and truly reflects the values of equality, solidarity, and community.
Download or read book Social Work Practice Under Capitalism written by Philip Corrigan and published by Springer. This book was released on 1978-04-19 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Class Struggle and Social Welfare written by Michael Lavalette and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For too long the collective struggles of the oppressed over welfare provision and welfare settlement have been ignored, yet such struggles punctuate recent British history. By presenting a series of case-studies of episodes of collective action from the field of social policy and social welfare, Class Struggle and Welfare aims to rediscover this 'hidden history'. Organised chronologically, the book covers some of the most important welfare struggles from the early nineteenth century, some of the issues covered are: *the growth of capitalism *the development of the poor laws and the anti-poor law movement *working class self-help welfare in the nineteenth century *rent strikes on the Clyde in 1920s *the squatters movement in the 1950s *the struggle for abortion rights *an analysis of the urban riots in the 1980s *the great poll tax rebellion.
Download or read book The Political Economy of the Welfare State written by Ian Gough and published by MacMillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1979 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Savage State written by Edward J. Martin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2005-08 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 is used as a point of departure for a critique of contemporary welfare policy and the capitalist state. Martin and Torres set out to renew a critical Marxist method by extending it to an analysis of contemporary social policy. It is in this approach that they set out to argue that a critique of welfare policy within the context of capitalism is more timely and important than ever before.
Download or read book Ideology and Social Welfare written by Victor George and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revised and rewritten version of the best-selling textbook, described by Sociological Review as 'essential reading for every student of social policy. '
Download or read book The Welfare State in Capitalist Society written by Ramesh Mishra and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the period from 1970 to 1988.
Download or read book The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism written by Gosta Esping-Andersen and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-05-29 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few discussions in modern social science have occupied as much attention as the changing nature of welfare states in western societies. Gosta Esping-Andersen, one of the most distinguished contributors to current debates on this issue, here provides a new analysis of the character and role of welfare states in the functioning of contemporary advanced western societies. Esping-Andersen distinguishes several major types of welfare state, connecting these with variations in the historical development of different western countries. Current economic processes, the author argues, such as those moving towards a post-industrial order, are not shaped by autonomous market forces but by the nature of states and state differences. Fully informed by comparative materials, this book will have great appeal to everyone working on issues of economic development and post-industrialism. Its audience will include students and academics in sociology, economics and politics.
Download or read book The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism written by Gosta Esping-Andersen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1990-01-23 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few discussions in modern social science have occupied as much attention as the changing nature of welfare states in Western societies. The author here provides a new analysis of the character and role of welfare states in the functioning of contemporary advanced Western societies. The author distinguishes three major types of welfare state, connecting these with variations in the historical development of different Western countries. He argues that current economic processes, such as those moving toward a postindustrial order, are shaped not by autonomous market forces but by the nature of states and state differences.
Download or read book The Welfare State in Crisis written by Ramesh Mishra and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Working Class in Welfare Capitalism written by Walter Korpi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1978, The Working Class in Welfare Capitalism looks at the position of the working class in the Swedish pattern of welfare capitalism and compares it with other capitalist industrial countries. Beginning with an analysis of class, class conflict, power and social change in classical and modern social theory, Professor Korpi discusses the development of the Swedish labour movement and its strategies of class conflict. He focuses on the situation of the worker at the workplace and in the community, on the functioning of the labour union, on industrial conflict, and on the political views and standpoints of the workers. He also examines political developments in Sweden and discusses the prospects for a development towards economic democracy. A challenging and comprehensive study of Swedish social democracy in action, carried out by a Swede within a comparative frame of reference, the book presents an analysis which is of central relevance to all capitalist societies, especially when mass communist parties in Europe appear to be moving towards reformistic socialism. This book will be of interest to students of sociology, social class, economy and history.
Download or read book Rethinking Welfare written by Iain Ferguson and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2002-07-09 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `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.
Download or read book Caring Capitalism written by Ronald M. Glassman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-07-04 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everywhere one travels in the world, people are excited about the new high technology production system. But the global villagers are also perplexed about the new social service needs that seem to accompany the high-tech economy: child care needs for working couples, elder care facilities for infirm senior citizens, burgeoning health care costs accompanying high-tech medicine, nursery school and college tuition costs, and more. There has been a global response to these social service needs, and this book will present and analyse that response. For, a new phenomenon may be emerging, as contradictory as it may appear, a kind of 'caring capitalism' may arise, worldwide. This book explores the various attempts around the globe to create a system of 'caring capitalism' and why nations have been pressured by the 'new middle class' to do so.
Download or read book Reflections on Marxism written by Pieter Du Toit and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sociology and Social Welfare written by Michael Sullivan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-20 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1987, Sociology and Social Welfare looks at the relationship between state and welfare in the context of a wider sociological analysis of state and society in post-war Britain. The book looks at two main concerns, the first suggests the ways in which the theory and practice of welfare might be made more reflective and self-conscious if located in sociological understandings of state, society, and welfare. The second suggests that the sociological study of social work and other welfare activities might lead to the development of a more sensitive and practice-informed sociology.
Download or read book Power Resources Theory and the Welfare State written by Walter Korpi and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rather than simply asserting that all social policies in all capitalist societies exist to maintain capitalism and serve the long-term interests of the capitalist class, PRT examines the nature and impact of social policies and the level and types of social inequality in a variety of advanced capitalist nations.
Download or read book Welfare Theory and Social Policy written by Phil Lee and published by Sage Publications (CA). This book was released on 1988 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welfare Theory and Social Policy provides an introduction to, and development of, current debates about the nature of welfare. It will be essential reading for all students and lecturers of social policy and the politics of the welfare state. @3In Britain, socialist analyses of welfare have conventionally divided into one of two hostile camps -- Fabian and Marxist. The Fabian tradition is empiricist and reformist and works within the capitalist system to eradicate inequalities and improve the provision of welfare. This tradition has, to a large extent, informed the policies of Labour governments. Against this tradition has been set the Marxist school. This has been critical, not only of the performance of the welfare state, but also of the belief that welfare provision under capitalism can achieve significant social change. @3In this major new text Phil Lee and Colin Raban examine these two traditions, looking at the key questions which face both in the context of the modern welfare state. Is reformism and political pragmatism necessarily at odds with a theoretically informed critique of the inequalities of the capitalist system? With the future of the welfare state thrown in doubt by the new right, do Marxists need to modify their analysis of the fate of welfare reforms as little more than instruments of social control? Drawing on the latest work in critical social policy from both traditions, the authors argue that it is an urgent political necessity that each learn from the strengths of the other. Only in this way can welfare be defended and advanced in a way which is both intellectually coherent and politically feasible.
