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Book SynopsisThis exciting volume brings together international scholarship to address a broad range of issues including the effects of financialisation on services and care provision, policies to address deficiencies in housing and labour markets and ways in which the study of social policy may need to develop.
Trade Review"A one-stop shop for key contemporary social policy debates, along with a timely retrospective on the `three worlds of welfare capitalism’. Essential reading for all those interested in social policy." Karen Rowlingson, Birmingham University
Table of ContentsPart One: Continuities and change in UK social policy; Britain’s hunger crisis: where’s the social policy? ~ Hannah Lambie-Mumford; Social security policy and low wages in austere times ~ Chris Grover; Responsibilisation of everyday life: housing and welfare state change ~ Stuart Lowe and Jed Meers; ‘The end of local government as we know it’ – what next for adult social care? ~ Jon Glasby; Part Two: Contributions from the Social Policy Association Conference 2014; Towards the Welfare Commons: contestation, critique and criticality in social policy ~ Fiona Williams; New keys for old doors: breaking the vicious circle connecting homelessness and reoffending ~ Graham Bowpitt; Embedded neglect, entrenched abuse: market failure and mistreatment in elderly residential care ~ Joe Greener; What variety of employment service quasi-market? Ireland’s JobPath as a private power market ~ Jay Wiggan; Part Three: 25 years after The three worlds of welfare capitalism: a retrospective; Applying welfare regime ideal types in empirical analysis: the example of activation ~ Deborah Rice; What if we waited a little longer? The dependent variable problem: within the comparative analysis of the welfare state revisited ~ Stefan Kühner; The welfare modelling business in the East Asian welfare state debate ~ Gyu-Jin Hwang; The role of regime-type analysis in OECD work on social policy and family ~ Dominic Richardson.
