Poverty, Welfare and the Disciplinary State

Taylor & Francis

A forward-looking appraisal of the welfare state which examines issues such as poverty in Britain, demonisation of the poor in areas of social policy and other related topics. > In a forward looking appraisal of the welfare state, Poverty, Welfare and the Disciplinary State examines such issues as:\n*the current dynamics of poverty in Britain, drawing on similar developments in Europe and the US\n*the major areas of social policy within which this abandonment and demonisation of the poor is taking place\n*the historical antecendents to this relationship between the state and the poor\n*the creation and expansion of a 'welfare' state that characterised the era of social democracy until the mid-1970s and from the point of view of the poor, was limited and conditional\n*the ideology and organisation of the New Right\n*the new terrain on which the struggle over the future of welfare and social policy must take place. > Chapter 1 Redefining the Poor; Chapter 2 Impoverishing the Poor.