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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pierson Christopher (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Policy Press, 2021.
Temas:
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.