Theorising Welfare

• IntroductionPART ONE: ENLIGHTENMENT AND PROGRESSLiberalismMarxismPART TWO: AGAINST ENLIGHTENMENT: QUESTIONS ON POWER AND KNOWLEDGENeo-LiberalismPoststructuralismPART THREE: POST-ENLIGHTENMENT PROBLEMATICSPolitical EconomyPolitical EcologyPostmodernismCritiques and Conclusion

`Very well written and painstakingly clear. It is an accessible and original textbook on the welfare state and the idea of welfare. There is nothing available like it in terms of its scope and intellectual sweep′ - Scott Lash, University of Lancaster