Class Struggle and Social Welfare

by Lavalette,Michael

• ISBN13: 9780415201056
• ISBN10: 0415201055
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2000-06-05
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

For too long the collective struggles of the oppressed over welfare provision and welfare settlement have been ignored, yet such struggles punctuate recent British history. By presenting a series of case studies of episodes of collective action from the field of social policy and social welfare, this book aims to rediscover this "hidden history." Organized chronologically, the book covers some of the most important welfare struggles from the nineteenth century to the present.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	ix
Series editor's preface	xii
Acknowledgements	xv
Introduction: class struggle and social policy	1	(12)
Michael Lavalette
Gerry Mooney
Class struggle and the English Poor Laws	13	(21)
Mark O'Brien
Class struggle, self-help and popular welfare	34	(18)
Chris Jones
Tony Novak
Class struggle and the origins of state welfare reform	52	(19)
John Charlton
`The Clyde Rent War!': the Clydebank rent strike of the 1920s	71	(25)
Sean Damer
The making of a poor people's movement: a study of the political leadership of Poplarism, 1919-1925	96	(21)
Alan Johnson
The `two souls of socialism': the labour movement and unemployment during the 1920s and 1930s	117	(22)
Laura Penketh
Alan Pratt
Housing and class struggles in post-war Glasgow	139	(16)
Charlie Johnstone
The Struggle for abortion rights	155	(18)
Sue Clegg
Rita Gough
Riots and urban unrest in Britain in the 1980s and 1990s: a critique of dominant explanations	173	(26)
Rumy Hasan
`No poll tax here!': the Tories, social policy and the great poll tax rebellion, 1987-1991	199	(29)
Michael Lavalette
Gerry Mooney
Identity politics or class struggle? The case of the mental health users' movement	228	(22)
Iain Ferguson
Bibliography	250	(17)
Name index	267	(3)
Subject index	270