Social Policy in Times of Austerity : : Global Economic Crisis and the New Politics of Welfare /

Social Policy in Times of Austerity : : Global Economic Crisis and the New Politics of Welfare / / ed. by Kevin Farnsworth, Zoë Irving.

The 2008 global economic crisis was unprecedented in living memory and its impact on economic and social life immense. Large-scale social policy interventions played a crucial role in helping to mediate the crisis, and yet the welfare state continues to come under attack. A new age of austerity, bas...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Complete eBook-Package 2015
MitwirkendeR:
Farnsworth, Kevin,
Hill, Michael,
Irving, Zoë,
Jessop, Bob,
McBride, Stephen,
Minnite, Lorraine C.,
Piven, Frances Fox,
Spoehr, John,
Whitfield, Dexter,
HerausgeberIn:
Farnsworth, Kevin,
Irving, Zoë,
Place / Publishing House:Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • List of figures and tables
  • Notes on contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Social policy in the age of austerity
  • Austerity: more than the sum of its parts
  • Conventional wisdom on government austerity: UK politics since the 1920s
  • The economics of austerity
  • Neoliberalism, finance-dominated accumulation and enduring austerity: a cultural political economy perspective
  • Alternatives to austerity
  • Crisis, convulsion and the welfare state
  • A new politics of welfare
  • Index

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