Originally published in 1965, this introductory textbook provides the student with an outline of the subject matter of Social Administration. It deals with the growth of this discipline of study, its inter-relatedness with the other social sciences, and examines the historical development and structure of the social services in the 20th Century. The book discusses the complexity of the study of the study of the formation and implementation of social policy in the United Kingdom and will be of interest to those in the areas of the history of social policy and the welfare state.
Originally published in 1965, this introductory textbook provides the student with an outline of the subject matter of Social Administration. It deals with the growth of this discipline of study, and examines the historical development and structure of the social services in the 20th Century.
Part 1: The Essential Background
1. The Nature and Growth of Social
Administration as a Systematic Field of Study David C. Marsh
2. The Growth
and Development of the Social Services and the Welfare State. Part 2: Social
Provision Organized on a Functional Basis
3. Social Services for the
Maintenance of Income David C. Marsh
4. Social Policy in Relation to
Industrial Conditions Richard L. Silburn
5. Services for the Maintenance and
Promotion of Health Arthur J. Willcocks
6. Social Policy and the Physical
Environment Arthur J. Willcocks
7. Educational Services Arthur J. Willcocks
Part 3: Social Provision to Meet Special Needs
8. Offenders Against the Law
Richard L. Silburn
9. The Physically Handicapped Joan L.M. Eyden
10. The
Mentally Disordered Joan L.M. Eyden
11. The Elderly Joan L.M. Eyden
12.
Children and the Family Joan L.M. Eyden
13. Policy, Administration and
Personnel Joan L.M. Eyden
David C. Marsh (1917-1983) was Head of the Department of Social Science at the University of Nottingham.
