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Why We Need Welfare: Collective Action for the Common Good
Pete Alcock
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Description for Why We Need Welfare: Collective Action for the Common Good
Paperback. Explains the challenges that collective welfare faces, and explores the complexities involved in delivering it, including debates about who benefits from welfare and how and where it is delivered. Num Pages: 204 pages, 8 black & white tables. BIC Classification: JKSB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 199 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 224.
Why we need welfare explains the challenges that collective welfare faces, and explores the complexities delivering it, including debates about who benefits from welfare and how and where it is delivered. The primary focus is on the UK but it also draws on international examples from Europe and other OECD countries.
Why we need welfare explains the challenges that collective welfare faces, and explores the complexities delivering it, including debates about who benefits from welfare and how and where it is delivered. The primary focus is on the UK but it also draws on international examples from Europe and other OECD countries.
Product Details
Publisher
Policy Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
223g
Number of Pages
204
Place of Publication
Bristol, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781447328346
SKU
V9781447328346
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99-50
About Pete Alcock
Pete Alcock is Professor of Social Policy and Administration at the University of Birmingham. Pete has taught and researched social policy for over thirty years, moving to Birmingham in 1998, where he has held a number of posts, including Head of the School of Social Sciences and Director of the ESRC Third Sector Research Centre (TSRC). He is author and ... Read more
Reviews for Why We Need Welfare: Collective Action for the Common Good
Pete Alcock uses his enviable gift for simplifying complex narratives and ideas to redeem the very meaning of `welfare' and explain how the much-maligned welfare state entails concerted action in the service of the common good. Hartley Dean, London School of Economics This is an important book. It is a timely reminder of what the UK welfare state ... Read more