Empowerment and Control in the Australian Welfare State
Title | Empowerment and Control in the Australian Welfare State PDF eBook |
Author | Philip Mendes |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2018-10-19 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1351801775 |
This book explores the tensions between the competing social rights and social control functions of the modern Australian welfare state. By critically examining the history and rhetoric of the Australian welfare state from 1972 to the present day, and using the author’s long-standing research on the Australian Council of Social Service and other welfare advocacy groups, it analyses the transformation from rights-based to conditional welfare. The Labor Party Government from 1972-75 is identified as the only clear cut example of Australia positively using welfare payments and services as an instrument to promote greater social equity, inclusion and participation. Since the mid-1970s, the Australian welfare state has gradually retreated from the social rights agenda conceived by the Whitlam Government. Australia has followed other Anglo-Saxon countries in adopting increasingly conditional and paternalistic measures that undermine the protection of social citizenship outside the labour market. In contrast, this text makes the case for an alternative participatory and decentralized welfare state model that would prioritize social care by empowering and supporting welfare service users at a local community level. This book will be of interest to academics, students and policy-makers working within social policy, social work and political sociology.
The Australian Welfare State
Title | The Australian Welfare State PDF eBook |
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Release | 1990 |
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The Australian Welfare State
Title | The Australian Welfare State PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Anthony Jones |
Publisher | |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Public welfare |
ISBN | 9780044421481 |
An examination of the Australian welfare state.
Social Policy in the Post-welfare State
Title | Social Policy in the Post-welfare State PDF eBook |
Author | Adam Jamrozik |
Publisher | |
Pages | 332 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Political Science |
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The first book to examine social policy in the post-welfare state. It looks critically at the idea of the welfare state, analysing the changing concept of welfare and arguing that the welfare state no longer exists in Australia. The book is written in an accessible and student-friendly style.
Welfare and Inequality
Title | Welfare and Inequality PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Saunders |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 1994-04-25 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780521455947 |
This book introduces key concepts and arguments in the welfare state debate and questions the views of those who argue for further cutbacks.
From Entitlement to Contract
Title | From Entitlement to Contract PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Weatherley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 46 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Australia |
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The Australian Welfare State
Title | The Australian Welfare State PDF eBook |
Author | Michael A. Jones |
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Pages | 355 |
Release | 1988 |
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