Originally published in 1994 The Politics of the Welfare State looks at how the privatization and marketization of education, health and welfare services in the past decade have produced a concept of welfare that is markedly different from that envisaged when the welfare state was initially created. Issues of class, gender and ethnicity are explored in chapters that are wide ranging but closely linked. The contributors are renowned academics and policy-makers, including feminist and welfare historians, highly regarded figures in social policy, influential critics of recent educational reforms and key analysts of current reform in the health sector.
Notes on Contributors Introduction
1. Interpretations of Welfare and
Approaches to the State 1870-1920
2. Lessons from the Past: The Rise and Fall
of the Classic Welfare State in Britain, 1945-76
3. Conservatives and
Consensus: The Politics of the National Health Service, 1951-64
4. Local
Voices in the National Health Service: Needs Effectiveness and Sufficiency
5.
Priority Setting for Health Gain
6. Obstacles to Medical Audit: British
Doctors Speak
7. Choice, Needs and Enabling: The New Community Care
8. Making
Sense of the New Politics of Education
9. The Relationship Between Research
and Policy: The Case of Unemployment and Health Index
Edited by Ann Oakley and Susan Williams
