Description
Originally published in 1980, Social Welfare: Why and How? is a collection of papers contributing to the subject of welfare philosophy, and to philosophising about and doing welfare. It advances emerging arguments concerning the growth grounds and uses of social welfare. The book is divided into two main sections, the first looks at the growth and the grounds of social welfare and the second looks at the practice of social welfare. The collection of papers provides a multi-disciplinary look at the subject through the lens of philosophy, social policy, social work and economics.
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Introduction
Part I: The Growth and the Grounds of Social Welfare
1. The Welfare State and ‘Post-Industrial’ Values, Alex Robinson
2. Needs, Welfare and Political Allegiance, Peter Taylor-Gooby
3. The Market and Welfare Services: Remedial Values, R.S. Downie
4. The Rehabilitation of the Market in Social Policy, David Heald
5. Choice, Markets, and Welfare, Alf Davey
6. Needs and Welfare, Raymond Plant
7. Rights, Welfare and Stigma, Peter Jones
8. Richard Titmus: Social Policy and Social Life, David Watson
9. Altruism, Duty and the Welfare State, Robert Sugden
Part II: Models of Welfare and the Practice of Welfare
10. Galbraith and Social Welfare, David Reisman
11. Helping the Disadvantaged, Vernon Pratt
12. Respect or Persons and Social Work: Social Work as ‘Doing Philosophy’, Nicolas Ragg
13. Procedural Fairness and Rationing the Social Services, Albert Weale
14. ‘The Social Work Task’: A Rulebook for Social Work?, Paul Dolan
15. Personal Needs and Moral Dilemmas: Some Examples from Social Work, Ian Sinclair
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