Towards a Post-Fordist Welfare State?

by Loader; Brian D.

• ISBN13: 9780415099677
• ISBN10: 0415099676
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1994-11-17
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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 criticizing Post-Fordist theorizing and presents a thorough examination of the implications of applying Post-Fordism to contemporary restructuring of the British welfare state.

Table of Contents

Illustrations	p. vii
Contributors	p. ix
Series Editor's Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xv
The Restructuring of Britain, Social Policy and the Future of Welfare	p. 1
Notes	p. 10
Applicability and Critique	p. 11
The Transition to Post-Fordism and the Schumpeterian Workfare State	p. 13
Notes	p. 36
The Politics of the Modernisation of the Uk Welfare State	p. 38
Notes	p. 47
Social Relations, Welfare and the Post-Fordism Debate	p. 49
Notes	p. 73
The Political Mobilisation of the Poor Against Contemporary Welfare Regimes	p. 74
Notes	p. 93
Continuity and Discontinuity in the Emergence of the 'Post-Fordist' Welfare State	p. 95
Post-Fordism and the Local Welfare State	p. 115
Restructuring the Local Welfare State	p. 117
A Case Study of the North East of England	p. 136
Public Services and Local Economic Regeneration in a Post-Fordist Economy	p. 154
Flexibility, Consumption and the Future of Welfare	p. 175
Flexibility in Higher Education	p. 177
Notes	p. 200
Is There a Post-Fordist Model?	p. 203
Consumers, Consumption and Post-Fordism	p. 223
References	p. 239
Name Index	p. 255
Subject Index	p. 257
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