Acknowledgements vi
Lists of Tables, Figures and Boxes vii
Introduction 1
1 Founding Ideas and Approaches 12
2 Well-being and Other Challenges to Conventional Understandings of Welfare 36
Intermezzo 59
3 Classic Political Philosophies of Welfare 61
4 The State and Public Welfare 84
Intermezzo 109
5 Securing Material Welfare through the Market and the State 111
6 The Personal and Social Relations of Welfare 134
7 Conclusion 154
Notes 161
References 169
Index 189
Mary Daly is Professor of Sociology at Queen's University, Belfast.
"This is a must-read book for those for whom welfare and social
policy are, or should be, synonymous."
Social Policy & Administration "Daly provides a
philosophical and sociological overview that makes this little book
the new touchstone for the study of social policy everywhere."
Labour / Le Travail "Mary Daly's lucidly written book analyses the
core ideological and philosophical debates about welfare and also
explores 'welfare in practice' - how welfare policies are actually
delivered through the different mediums of the state, the market
and the family. This is a truly excellent introduction to a complex
and contested concept, and student will benefit enormously from
reading it."
Nick Ellison, University of Leeds "The welfare state is everywhere
under attack. Academics respond with new accounts of how welfare is
to be understood in a world of migration, recession, escalating
inequality, make-work-pay and volatile families. This book provides
an energetic review of an exciting and uncertain world."
Peter Taylor-Gooby, University of Kent
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