Title The inclusive society? : social exclusion and New Labour / Ruth Levitas

Edition Second edition Published Basingstoke : Palgravae Macmillan, 2005 Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 ©2005

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Description xv, 277 pages ; 22 cm Contents 1. Three Discourses of Social Exclusion -- 2. From Social Justice to Social Cohesion -- 3. The Optimism of Will -- 4. Staking Claims -- 5. Community Rules -- 6. New Labour, New Discourse -- 7. From Equality to Inclusion -- 8. Delivering Social Inclusion -- 9. The New Durkheimian Hegemony -- 10. From Margins to Mainstream Summary The idea of social exclusion is part of a new political language about social cohesion, community, stakeholding and inclusion. The New Labour government launched its Social Exclusion Unit to pursue this central theme. But what exactly does social exclusion mean? This book identifies three competing meanings of the term in contemporary British politics, in turn emphasising poverty, employment and morality. It examines arguments by Will Hutton, John Kay, Amitai Etzioni and John Gray as well as the rhetoric and policies of New Labour, and shows how all of these neglect the role of unpaid work in society. It argues that there has been a shift away from understanding social exclusion as primarily a problem of poverty, towards question of social integration through paid work, and moral regulation - a combination which reflects the concerns of the sociologist Emile Durkheim, but expresses them in ways which have very ambiguous consequences for social policy. This second edition adds a new chapter evaluating New Labour's record between 1997 and 2004 Notes Previous edition: 1998 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-268) and index Notes Print version record Subject Labour Party (Great Britain) Equality -- Great Britain. Social integration -- Political aspects -- Great Britain. Social policy -- Great Britain. Public welfare -- Great Britain. Marginality, Social -- Government policy -- Great Britain. Poverty -- Government policy -- Great Britain. Labor policy -- Great Britain. SUBJECT Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1997-2007. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh97005399 Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1979-1997. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056924 Great Britain -- Politics and government http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056868 -- 1979- Great Britain -- Social policy -- 1979- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90001103 Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056945 Author Palgrave Connect (Online service) LC no. 2006295480 ISBN 9781403944276 140394427X

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