| Towards a Post-Fordist Welfare State? Contributor(s): Burrows, Roger (Author), Loader, Brian D. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415099676 ISBN-13: 9780415099677 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $54.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1994 Annotation: There is no doubt that significant socio-economic changes have occurred over the last twenty years in the UK and other advanced capitalist societies. Consequently, Fordism, a bureaucratic, hierarchical model of industrial development has matured into Post-Fordism, with its greater emphasis on the individual, freedom of choice and flexibility, generating fresh debate and analysis. b /b b i Towards a Post-Fordist Welfare State? /i /b represents leading authors from a number of disciplines--social policy, sociology, politics and geography--who have played a key role in promoting and criticizing Post-Fordist theorizing and presents a thorough examination of the implications of applying Post-Fordism to contemporary restructuring of the British welfare state. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare - Social Science | Social Work - Medical | Health Care Delivery |
| Dewey: 361.610 |
| LCCN: 93042527 |
| Series: Teaching and Learning in the First Three Years of School |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.79 lbs) 288 pages |
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| Publisher Description: There is no doubt that significant socio-economic changes have occurred over the last twenty years in the UK and other advanced capitalist societies. Consequently, Fordism, a bureaucratic, hierarchical model of industrial development has matured into Post-Fordism, with its greater emphasis on the individual, freedom of choice and flexibility, generating fresh debate and analysis. Towards a Post-Fordist Welfare State represents leading authors from a number of disciplines - social policy, sociology, politics and geography - who have played a key role in promoting and criticising Post-Fordist theorising and presents a thorough examination of the implications of applying Post-Fordism to contemporary restructuring of the British welfare state. |