Risk and Citizenship - Key Issues in Welfare

List of contents

1. Risk, Citizenship and Welfare: Introduction 2. Social Insecurity and Social Protection 3. Transparent and Messy Contracts - How Do They Serve Social Security? 4. Live and Let Love? Reflections on the Unfinished Sexual Revolution of our Times 5. Widening the Scope of Social Policy: Families, Financial Services and the Impact of Technology 6. Complex Inequalities - Redistribution, Class and Gender 7. 'Work for Those Who Can, Security for Those Who Cannot': A Third Way in Social Security Reform or Fractured Social Citizenship 8. Managing the Risk of Unemployment: Is Welfare Restructuring Undermining Support for Social Security? 9. Managing the Body: Competing Approaches to Risk Assessment in Community Care 10. Social Insecurity and the Informal Economy: Survival Strategies on a South London Estate 11. Social Capital and Waves of Innovation in the Risk Society

About the author

Edwards, Rosalind; Glover, Judith

Summary

This spirited and informed collection of papers by leading analysts addresses key questions related to welfare, citizenship and risk.

Product details

• Assisted by: Rosalind Edwards (Editor), Edwards Rosalind (Editor), Judith Glover (Editor), Glover Judith (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.05.2001
• EAN: 9780415241595
• ISBN: 978-0-415-24159-5
• No. of pages: 208
• Weight: 317 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, MEDICAL / Allied Health Services / General, Social issues & processes, Social and ethical issues