<p><strong>`... a valuable text for students seeking to understand contemporary social policy and practice in welfare agencies.'</strong> - <em>Work, Employment & Society</em></p>

There is no doubt that significant socio-economic changes have occurred over the last twenty years in the UK and other advanced capitalist societies. Consequently, Fordism, a bureaucratic, hierarchical model of industrial development has matured into Post-Fordism, with its greater emphasis on the individual, freedom of choice and flexibility, generating fresh debate and analysis. Towards a Post-Fordist Welfare State represents leading authors from a number of disciplines - social policy, sociology, politics and geography - who have played a key role in promoting and criticising Post-Fordist theorising and presents a thorough examination of the implications of applying Post-Fordism to contemporary restructuring of the British welfare state. The work will appeal to a wide-ranging readership providing the first social policy text on Post-Fordism. It will be key reading for undergraduates, postgraduates and lecturers in social policy and administration, sociology, politics and public sector economics
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Leading authors from a number of disciplines present a thorough examiniation of the implications of applying Post-Fordism to contemporary restructuring of the welfare state.
Chapter 1 Towards a Post-Fordist Welfare State?, Brian Loader, Roger Burrows; Part 1 Post-Fordist Analyses of Welfare; Chapter 2 The Transition to Post-Fordism and the Schumpeterian Workfare State, Bob Jessop; Chapter 3 The Politics of the Modernisation of the UK Welfare State, Paul Hoggett; Chapter 4 Social Relations, Welfare and the Post-Fordism Debate, Fiona Williams; Chapter 5 Prisoners of the Beveridge Dream?, Paul Bagguley; Chapter 6 Continuity and Discontinuity in the Emergence of the ‘Post-Fordist’ Welfare State, Christopher Pierson; Part 2 Post-Fordism and the Local Welfare State; Chapter 7 Restructuring the Local Welfare State, Allan Cochrane; Chapter 8 Planning for and Against the Divided City, David Byrne; Chapter 9 Public Services and Local Economic Regeneration in a Post-Fordist Economy, Mike Geddes; Part 3 Flexibility, Consumption and the Future of Welfare; Chapter 10 Flexibility in Higher Education, Michael Rustin; Chapter 11 Labour Flexibility and the Changing Welfare State, Steven Pinch; Chapter 12 Consumers, Consumption and Post-Fordism, Alan Warde;
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`... a valuable text for students seeking to understand contemporary social policy and practice in welfare agencies.' - Work, Employment & Society

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780415099677
Publisert
1994-05-19
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
385 gr
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
138 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
288

Biographical note

Roger Burrows is a sociologist working in the School of Human Studies at the University of Teesside, where Brian Loader is a Senior Lecturer in Policy Studies.