Understanding Social Welfare Movements

Understanding social welfare movements is the first text to bring together social policy and social movement studies. The book provides a timely and much needed overview of the changing nature of social welfare as it has been shaped by the demands of social movements.

About the author

Jason Annetts is Sociology division leader at the University of Abertay and has published on sexuality, sexual health and the family. Alex Law is Senior Lecturer in sociology at the University of Abertay Dundee. He is author of Key concepts in classical social theory (Sage, 2009) and co-editor with Gerry Mooney of New Labour/Hard Labour? (The Policy Press, 2007). Wallace McNeish lectures in sociology at the University of Abertay Dundee. He is Programme Tutor for the Sociology and Behavioural Science degree programmes. He has a long-standing research interest in social movements, environmentalism and the dynamics of social and political change. Gerry Mooney is Senior Lecturer in social policy and Staff Tutor in the Faculty of Social Sciences at The Open University. He is co-editor with Alex Law of New Labour/Hard Labour? (The Policy Press, 2007) and with Sarah Neal of Community: Welfare, crime and society (Open University Press, 2009).

Summary

"Understanding social welfare movements" is the first text to bring together social policy and social movement studies. The book provides a timely and much needed overview of the changing nature of social welfare as it has been shaped by the demands of social movements.

Product details

• Authors: Jason Annetts, Jason (School of Social and Health Sciences Annetts, Alex Law, Alex (Sociology Division Law, Wallace McNeish, Wallace (Sociology Department McNeish, Gerry Mooney, Gerry (The Open University (Scotland)) Mooney
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.07.2009
• EAN: 9781847420961
• ISBN: 978-1-84742-096-1
• No. of pages: 306
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 244 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 532 g
• Series: Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice Series; Policy Press - Understanding W; Understanding Welfare: Social; Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice Series; Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education