Welfare or Welfare State?: Contradictions and Dilemmas in Social Policy

by David Marsland

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Throughout the modernized world, a massive, bureaucratic apparatus of state welfare has been built up since the 1940s. This book examines the major deficiencies of the welfare state: the incoherence of its underlying philosophy; its redundancy in an era of prosperity and progress; its costs; its inefficiency; and the harm it does to those it should help by driving them into underclass dependency. Practical proposals for radical reform are outlined, combining self-reliance, privatization, and a new deal for the deprived and disadvantaged.
  • ISBN10 0312129211
  • ISBN13 9780312129217
  • Publish Date 1 February 1996 (first published 1 January 1996)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 31 March 2016
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint St. Martin's Press
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 262
  • Language English