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Critical Social Policy: A Reader

Critical Social Policy: A Reader

by David Taylor (Editor), David Taylor (Editor)

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    Paperback 1996

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Synopsis

This invaluable Reader represents a social relations of welfare perspective developed in the journal Critical Social Policy over the last fifteen years. The textbook highlights issues of gender, 'race', sexuality, disability and age as central to the analysis of welfare. These social relations are shown to underpin questions of need, empowerment and social citizenship. The book raises questions about universal and particular arguments for welfare and suggests ways in which welfare strategies may begin to overcome the traditional dichotomies between rights and needs.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 256
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Published: 19 Jul 1996
ISBN 10: 0761950346
ISBN 13: 9780761950349

Media Reviews
`Selected articles published over the past 15 years in the journal of Critical Social Policy are brought together in this volume, producing an innovative reader on social welfare policy. The major contribution to the social policy literature is the multiple perspectives that are represented across articles. The volume works as a clollection because there is a unifying theme, a critical assessment of welfare policy and theories of participatory change, with room enough for a variety of perspectices from the standpoint of exclusionary design and practice.... Policy analysts, as well as applied and academic researchers, would benefit from this book. As a text, Critical Social Policy shoud be required reading for graduate courses in social policy, public administration and social inequality' - Health

'This collection is drawn from articles first published in the journal of Critical Social Policy and represents an emerging voice in British social policy and its central concerns. The first seven essays examine the historical and contemporary inter-relationships between both the discipline and practice of social policy and inequalities structured around gender, age, sexuality, disability and race in British society. The second five offer a more theoretical exploration of issues around citizenship, needs and participation given that exclusive construction of welfare. Taken together, these two sections go some way to offering a socialist and anti-discriminatory perspective on welfare radically different from both the neo-liberal and Fabian socialist traditions' - SAGE Race Relatons Abstracts

Author Bio
David Taylor is Director of the MA Programme in Environmental and Social Studies at the University of North London. He has been Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Sydney and City College, City University, and has been a member of the Critical Social Policy Editorial Collective since 1983. CONTRIBUTORS Colin Barnes University of Leeds Jean Carabine Bradford University Peter Beresford Open Services Project Steve Cohen Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit Suzy Croft Open Services Project Jay Ginn National Institute of Social Work Martin Hewitt University of Hertfordshire Ruth Lister University of Loughborough Mary McIntosh University of Essex Jenny Morris Paul Spicker University of Dundee Fiona Williams University of Leeds