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The Third Edition of this widely adopted textbook has been thoroughly revised and offers an authoritative and up-to-date coverage of the key theories, concepts, and issues in social policy. This lively and readable text has been designed to provide the essential tools to understand the main theoretical debates surrounding the discipline.
The book is organized into three sections:
Section One offers a detailed but accessible critique of major theoretical approaches such as neo-liberalism, Marxism, feminism and racism;
Section Two explores conceptual debates such as distributive justice and postmodernism;
Section Three engages with contemporary social policy issues such as children, pensions and the role of New Labor;
The new edition of also features newly commissioned chapters to reflect recent developments and current debates within social policy. New areas of consideration include citizenship; post-structuralism; the politics of food; and globalization.
Student exercises and reading lists feature throughout the text and practical examples are skillfully used to illustrate conceptual and theoretical material. Social Policy: Theories, Concepts and Issues is a core textbook for undergraduate social policy students, as well as those studying related welfare modules across the social sciences
Wage Supplementation, Social Policy and the State: From the Old Poor Law to New Labour
Wage Supplementation, Social Policy and the State: From the Old Poor Law to New Labour
Outline Points
- Within the labour market in Britain a large number of fully employed workers earn low wages and have at least one dependent child.
- The relationship between low wages, dependent children and family poverty.
- Wage supplementation as a policy response to the problems generated by the above relationship at three key moments in the history and development of British social policy.
- Wage supplementation, work incentives and labour market participation rates as an important issue in British social policy.
- Wage supplementation and its place in the consummation of a general vision of the ‘good society'; from the 1834 Poor Law Report ...
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