Changing Directions of the British Welfare State
Distributed for University of Wales Press
With a Foreword by Huw Edwards
256 pages
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3 figures
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5 1/2 x 8 1/2
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© 2012
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- Review Quotes
Table of Contents

Contents
Foreword
Huw Edwards
Acknowledgements
List of figures and tables
Notes on contributors
Introduction
Gideon Calder, Jeremy Gass and Kirsten Merrill-Glover
Timeline
Part 1: The ‘five giants’
1. Want: ‘What the British people desire’: the rise and fall of insurance-based social security
Peter Kenway
2. Disease: Social Democracy, health inequalities and the welfare state
Michael Sullivan
3. Ignorance: Combating ignorance: education, social opportunity and citizenship in Wales
Gareth Rees
4. Squalor: Shifting boundaries: people, homes and the state since 1945
John Puzey
5. Idleness: ‘No longer a problem of industry’? Principles, practice and policy in the early twenty-first century
David Byrne
Part 2: Five challenges
6. Gender: Continuity and change: gender and welfare
Sandra Shaw
7. Race: A very ‘British’ welfare state? ‘Race’ and racism
Charlotte Williams
8. Disability: What rights for disabled people in a welfare state? Need-fulfilment versus identity-assertion and the ‘problem of dependency’
Steven R. Smith
9. Devolution: Devolution and the welfare state: the case of Wales
Mark Drakeford
10. The start and end of life
Part 1: The welfare of children since 1948
Ian Butler
Part 2: The welfare of older people since 1948
Liz Lloyd
Conclusion: Taking Stock
Victoria Winckler
References
Index
Huw Edwards
Acknowledgements
List of figures and tables
Notes on contributors
Introduction
Gideon Calder, Jeremy Gass and Kirsten Merrill-Glover
Timeline
Part 1: The ‘five giants’
1. Want: ‘What the British people desire’: the rise and fall of insurance-based social security
Peter Kenway
2. Disease: Social Democracy, health inequalities and the welfare state
Michael Sullivan
3. Ignorance: Combating ignorance: education, social opportunity and citizenship in Wales
Gareth Rees
4. Squalor: Shifting boundaries: people, homes and the state since 1945
John Puzey
5. Idleness: ‘No longer a problem of industry’? Principles, practice and policy in the early twenty-first century
David Byrne
Part 2: Five challenges
6. Gender: Continuity and change: gender and welfare
Sandra Shaw
7. Race: A very ‘British’ welfare state? ‘Race’ and racism
Charlotte Williams
8. Disability: What rights for disabled people in a welfare state? Need-fulfilment versus identity-assertion and the ‘problem of dependency’
Steven R. Smith
9. Devolution: Devolution and the welfare state: the case of Wales
Mark Drakeford
10. The start and end of life
Part 1: The welfare of children since 1948
Ian Butler
Part 2: The welfare of older people since 1948
Liz Lloyd
Conclusion: Taking Stock
Victoria Winckler
References
Index
Review Quotes
Ruth Lister, Loughborough University
“A valuable, wide-ranging assessment of where Beveridge’s welfare state stands in the early years of the twenty-first century. . . . [It will be] of interest to both students of social policy and a wider readership.”
Fran Bennett, University of Oxford
“The authors cast a committed but critical eye over the past performance of the British welfare state in relation to Beveridge’s ‘5 Giants’ over the seventy years since his 1942 report, and examine current issues that are key to its future. The combination of its grounding in the specific context of Wales on the one hand and its wide range of topics on the other gives this volume a unique and valuable perspective.”
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