Modern Social Policy

Abstract

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part 1 Contexts of social policy -- 1 Social, economic and political contexts -- Features of the post-war British state -- Economic policy 1945-75 -- Social policy 1945-75 -- The demise of welfare statism? -- Prelude: the early 1970s -- 2 Social policy in the 1980s and 1990s -- 1979-93: the new Conservative experiment -- Social policy and new Conservatism: an appraisal -- Part 2 Understanding the state and social policy -- 3 Understanding the modern British State -- The erstwhile orthodoxy: social democracy and the state -- Marxist views of the state -- Marxism and the state: the oil-shock economy -- Radical right views on the state -- Ideas about the state in the 1980s and 1990s -- Conclusion -- 4 Understanding welfare: Pre-Thatcherite social policy -- The social democratic orthodoxy: welfare and bureaucratic collectivism -- Radical challenges to social democracy: the capitalist state and social policy -- Radical challenges to social democracy: social policy and the radical right -- 5 Understanding social policy: Radical challenges to social democracy in the 1980s and 1990s -- The neo-liberal revival? Radical rightism, politics and social policy in the 1980s and 1990s -- Intentions and outcomes -- The objectives of Conservative social policy -- The development of Conservative social policy -- Health policy -- The NHS and the internal market -- Education policy -- Other social policy areas -- Some conclusions -- The new Labourism: the 'citizen' returns -- 6 Changing social services: A study of the demise of old-style social democracy -- Prelude: social work before the welfare state -- The inception of state social work -- The reorganisation of state social work -- Personal social services in the post-war period.