This represents a substantial revision of Philip Mendes' successful textbook ""Australia's Welfare Wars"", in which the author explains - and questions - many of the values and assumptions that underpin contemporary social welfare policies. In particular, the book is critical of the Neo-liberal or Economic rationalist ideas that now dominate the welfare debates in Australia and overseas, and instead demonstrates and reaffirms the ongoing relevance of social-democratic and welfare-state ideals.
- ISBN13 9780868409917
- Publish Date 1 January 2008
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 14 April 2017
- Publish Country AU
- Imprint UNSW Press
- Edition Revised ed.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 320
- Language English