This major introductory textbook in social policy breaks new ground in arguing for the centrality of race, gender and class in welfare theory and practice.
Part I. The Discipline of Social Policy:. 1. The Origins and Development of the Discipline of Social Policy.
2. Perspectives of Welfare.
Part II. New Critical Approaches to Welfare:.
3. Feminist Critiques of the Welfare State.
4. The Basis for an Anti-Racist Critique of the Welfare State.
5. The Perspectives Revisited.
Part III. The Welfare State: An Analysis:.
6. The Historical Cast of Welfare Reforms.
7. The Welfare State as Part of a Racially-Structured and Patriarchal Capitalism.
Conclusion.
Bibliography.
Index.
