Product Description: How do human societies provide for the wellbeing of their members? How far can we organise the ways in which we care for and about each other? And who should take responsibility for providing the support we all need? These are some of the fundamental questions addressed by social policy today...read more

Product Description: Human need is a central but contested concept in social policy and the social sciences. This book provides an accessible overview of the subject using concepts and debates from philosophy, psychology, economics, sociology and elsewhere...read more

Product Description: Britain's New Labour government claims to support the cause of human rights. At the same time, it claims that we can have no rights without responsibility and that dependency on the state is irresponsible. The ethics of welfare offers a critique of this paradox and discusses the ethical conundrum it implies for the future of social welfare...read more

Product Description:  Welfare Rights and Social Policy provides an introduction to social policy through a discussion of welfare rights, which are explored in historical, comparative and critical context. At a time when the cause of human rights is high on the global political agendathe authorasks why the status of welfare rights as an element of human rights remains ambiguous...read more

Product Description: The opening chapters suggest that transitions in welfare capitalism can be understood in terms of shifts in dominant 'corporeal' discourses. The body as a focus for power and resistance in differing welfare regimes is further explored in individual contributions on health and social care, bodily metaphors in social policy and the relationship between animal and human welfare...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This work on family duty and how it intersects with policy asks questions such as: to what extent should we be responsible for our children; what is the nature of the debt we owe to our parents; and, how far should the state involve itself with these matters?

Product Description: This text explores welfare rights and social legislation in historical, comparative and critical contexts. the book is divided into four parts which cover the following issues: Part 1. Focuses upon the philosophical debates associated with social rights and the development of welfare citizenship; Part 2...read more

Product Description: First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: "Social Security and Social Control" takes a look at social security policy and demonstrates how the disciplinary effects of social security and relief programmes are more extensive, pervasive and subtle than is commonly supposed...read more