Imagining Welfare Futures

Zusatztext 'The contributors have achieved the difficult task of rounding off! summarily and appropriately! a most interesting and informative series. If all the books in the series are just as detailed and neutral they may indeed become the core texts for social policy courses at UK universities.' - Nursing Ethics 1999 Vol 6:4 Informationen zum Autor Hughes, Gordon Klappentext Imagining Welfare Futures explores possible futures of welfare by considering different types of relationship between the public and the state through which social welfare may be organized beyond the millennium. By drawing on contemporary debates about the 'citizen', 'the community' and 'the consumer', the book explores what each of these imaginary figures might mean for the next generation of welfare users. Zusammenfassung Explores possible futures of welfare by considering different types of relationship between the public and the state through which social welfare may be organized beyond the millennium. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction John Clarke, Gordon Hughes, Gail Lewis and Gerry Mooney, all at The Open University 1. Consumerism John Clarke 2. Community Gordon Hughes and Gerry Mooney 3. Citizenship Gail Lewis 4. Reinventing 'the public'? Gordon Hughes, John Clarke, Gail Lewis and Gerry Mooney

Product details

• Authors: Gordon Hughes, Gordon (Cardiff University) Hughes
• Assisted by: Gordon Hughes (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.08.1998
• EAN: 9780415181365
• ISBN: 978-0-415-18136-5
• No. of pages: 184
• Series: Social Policy: Welfare, Power and Diversity
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Central / national / federal government, Central government, Welfare & benefit systems, Welfare and benefit systems