Next welfare state? : UK welfare after Covid-19 /
In this book, Chris Pierson argues that we will need to think quite differently about the British welfare state after COVID-19. He looks back to the welfare state's origins and development as well as forwards, unearthing some surprising solutions in unexpected places.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Policy Press,
2021.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover
- The Next Welfare State?: UK Welfare after COVID-19
- Copyright information
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Table of contents
- List of figures and tables
- List of abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Looking backward
- The welfare state as a 'strategy of equality'
- An outline of the book
- 1 Welfare in an age of austerity
- The austerity welfare state 2010-20
- Austerity? Which austerity?
- Income inequality
- Wealth inequality
- Poverty
- Child poverty
- Other poverties
- Social mobility
- Inherited wealth
- The aftermath of austerity
- 2 The last social democratic welfare state
- The New Labour programme
- New Deals
- Child-contingent benefits
- Pensions
- Health
- Education
- Social exclusion
- New Labour, new welfare state
- Income inequality
- Wealth inequality
- Poverty
- Social mobility
- Inheritance
- The New Labour record
- The Third Way and the social investment state
- New Labour? Old Labour?
- 3 Back to the future, again
- 'Old' Labour
- 'Technocratic socialism'
- Wise to Dalton
- Evan Durbin
- 'Qualitative socialism'
- G.D.H. Cole
- R.H. Tawney
- The Keynesian case for socialism
- Douglas Jay
- James Meade
- Tony Crosland
- Conclusion
- 4 Future imperfect
- The demographic challenge
- The work challenge
- The climate change challenge
- Social investment and asset-based welfare
- Universal Basic Income
- Milanovic
- Piketty
- Gough
- Conclusion
- 5 COVID-19 and after
- COVID: the first year
- COVID: economy and welfare
- Longer COVID
- COVID: paying for it
- Conclusion: after COVID
- Conclusion
- The shape of things to come
- Taxing wealth
- The last word
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Back Cover.