Why We Need Welfare: Collective Action for the Common Good

by Pete Alcock

What is welfare? Why is it a key part of the common good for all? And how should we go about providing it? In Why We Need Welfare, social policy expert Pete Alcock explains the challenges that collective welfare faces in a world that so often--and so wrongly--equates it with weakness and dependence. Exploring the complexities involved in the where and how of welfare delivery, and touching on debates about who really benefits from it, Alcock...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1447328345
• ISBN13: 9781447328346
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.3"