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1 online resource |
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ALL OUR WELFARE -- Contents -- List of photographs and sources -- Foreword -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Owning not othering our welfare -- Voices of experience -- The structure of the book -- Conclusion -- Part One. The legacy of the past -- 1. Setting the scene for welfare and social policy -- The bad-mouthing of welfare -- Revisiting 'social policy' -- A different approach to social policy narrative -- The importance of narrative -- 2. The past -- The legacy of the Poor Law -- The principles of the Poor Law -- Utilitarianism: the underpinning philosophy of social policy -- The importance of fear -- Fear of contamination -- Social relations of Victorian poverty -- The idea of the 'hard core pauper': a case study of the New Poor Law -- Emerging contradictions -- Increasing consensus against the poorest -- Conclusion -- 3. The origins of the welfare state -- The Great War -- Inter-war depression -- The Second World War -- Conclusion -- 4. The welfare state and pressures from the war -- What people wanted -- What politicians and policymakers wanted -- The Beveridge Report -- The position of women -- The persistence of division -- Social and psychological disruption -- Conclusion -- 5. The principles of the welfare state -- Some key principles -- Social citizenship -- Decommodification -- Why the centrality of the state? -- The gap between principles and practice -- Conclusion -- 6. The welfare state: whose consensus? -- Political consensus? -- Public consensus? -- The welfare state and marginalised groups -- Conclusion -- 7. Back to the past -- Monetarism -- New public management ideas -- Financial and other redistribution through privatisation and outsourcing/contracting-out -- A rhetoric of choice and consumerism -- Globalisation -- Trade union reform -- Back to the future? -- Inequality -- Poverty -- Conclusion |
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8. What's wrong with social policy? -- The new science of social policy -- The social policy trinity -- Key social policy case studies -- Traditional tensions in social policy -- The Fabian legacy -- The importance of Peter Townsend -- Eugenics and the reliance on 'science' -- The scientism of the right -- The real meaning of choice -- Reinforcing division -- Social policy and direct voices -- Conclusion -- Part Two. The way to the future -- 9. The beginnings of something different -- Accessing people's views, people's histories -- The emergence of service user movements -- Breaking the social policy tradition -- Conclusion -- 10. A new set of principles for social policy -- Why poor treatment? -- A different set of principles -- Speaking for ourselves -- Self-organisation and collective action -- Social approaches -- Being rights-based -- Independent living -- Living in the mainstream -- Conclusion -- 11. Reconceiving research -- Leonard Cheshire, disability research and the disabled people's movement -- A new approach to research -- From 'experts' to experiential knowledge -- Barriers in the way of service user research and knowledge -- The discriminatory effects of exclusion -- A new basis for social policy knowledge -- Conclusion -- 12. A new approach to social policy -- Economic decline, the British motorcycle industry and revitalisation -- Organising around enthusiasms -- Diversity and involvement -- Workplace developments -- Lucas Aerospace -- Collaborative working -- Beyond the fragments -- Real alternatives -- Liberatory rhetoric: reactionary policy -- Conclusion -- 13. Welfare policy for the twenty-first century -- Principles for welfare -- Processes for welfare production -- Getting services and support -- Reaching the starting line -- The service journey -- Social policies for the future -- Conclusion |
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14. Supporting each other in the future -- Rethinking public services -- Transforming occupational and professional education and training -- Public service practice -- The 'gap-mending' approach -- New forms of collective services and peer support/assistance -- New organisational forms -- The economics of social policy -- Economic policy for social well-being -- Conclusion -- 15. Changing welfare -- Theoretical approaches to change -- Models of change -- Our relation with change -- Towards inclusive participation for change -- Humanising and democratising change -- Conclusion -- Afterword. The future: a different way forward? -- The need to renew social policy -- A new paradigm -- Revaluing our welfare -- Reflecting on myself -- All our children -- From baby Timothy to baby Isobel -- Appedix One. The family -- * The date when the account was provided or obtained. -- Sample letter/email -- Appendix 2. Research projects and related publications -- Vagrancy and single homelessness -- Public participation in land-use planning -- Children in care in North Battersea -- Patch-based social services -- Service user and citizen involvement -- Involving poor people in poverty analysis and research -- The citizens' commission on the future of the welfare state -- Leonard Cheshire empowerment project -- Researching with disabled people -- Service user networking and knowledge -- Advancing user involvement in and user-controlled research -- Palliative care -- Person-centred support: The standards we expect -- Involving older people -- Beyond the usual suspects -- Towards a social model of madness and distress -- Developing service user knowledge -- First-hand experience -- References -- Index |
| Summary |
The UK welfare state is under sustained ideological and political attack. It has also been undermined by accusations of paternalism and past failures to engage with the very people it is intended to help. This unique book is the first to critique the past, present and future welfare state from a participatory perspective. Peter Beresford, champion of user involvement, draws on pioneering theories and practice of welfare service user movements to offer a blueprint for a new participatory social policy. He controversially challenges orthodox social policy and the limitations of both Fabian and Neo-liberal perspectives in engaging people to improve their own welfare, drawing on service users ' own ideas and experience, including fascinating vignettes from his own family's experience, to demonstrate the value of 'user knowledge'. Filling a much-needed gap in the literature, this accessible text will provide a great introduction for students and a road-map for practitioners of an alternative vision for a future participatory and sustainable social policy. It will also command much wider interest from everyone concerned with how we look after each other in future in society |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 21, 2016) |
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Welfare state.
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Public welfare -- Social aspects
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Public welfare -- Political aspects
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Services.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Policy.
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Public welfare -- Political aspects
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Public welfare -- Social aspects
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Welfare state
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Alibhai-Brown, Yasmin, writer of foreword
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| ISBN |
9781447320685 |
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1447320689 |
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