All Our Welfare: Towards Participatory Social Policy

by Peter Beresford

Book Overview

The UK welfare state is under sustained ideological and political attack. In All Our Welfare, Peter Beresford explores the establishment and trajectory of the postwar welfare state and offers a blueprint for participatory social policy in the future. By showing that early welfare policies resulted from popular revulsion against the inequity of the market and associated poor laws, Beresford reveals that the welfare state was ultimately undermined...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1447328949
• ISBN13: 9781447328940
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Length: 468 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"