scholarly journals The “Good Citizen” as a “Respectable Worker:” State, Unemployment, and Social Policy in the United Kingdom and Italy, 1930 to 1950

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele Mioni
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Good Citizen ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
State Unemployment

Public Spending and Social Policy: The United Kingdom 1950–1977

1980 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 337-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Gould ◽  
Barbara Roweth
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Public Expenditure ◽  
Public Spending ◽  
International Study ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Welfare Spending ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Individual

ABSTRACTThis article, in which we examine developments in public expenditure on social policy in relation to total public spending in the United Kingdom (UK) in the period after the Second World War, is part of a larger international study on developments in social welfare spending on which we are currently engaged.In Section 1 we briefly sketch in the theoretical background to the study of public expenditure growth in general and social welfare spending in particular. We shall not in this article attempt to evaluate the validity of the competing hypotheses – this exercise is in hand as part of the international study, and we shall report the findings at a later date. Section 2 examines the growth of public expenditure in the UK at the aggregate level. In Section 3 we analyse public expenditure at the individual programme level and in Section 4 we summarize the conclusions.

Social Work's Evolution in the United Kingdom: A Study of Community Care and Social Control

2009 ◽  
Vol 90 (3) ◽  
pp. 336-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. David Harrison
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Community Care ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Model Of Practice

Community social work was a model of practice that was advocated by many roughly from the late 1970s through the 1980s, in the United Kingdom. The approach faded as the field of social work and social services changed drastically in subsequent years. This study conducted in 2006 and 2007, follows up a 1984 study of community social work advocates to learn how the same people understood the changes that occurred over more than 20 years. A total of 9 of the original 30 participants discussed the important role of social policy and social changes that appear to have led toward more individualized, mechanistic, and often control-oriented services.

UK defence plans are ambitious but face challenges

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Cyber Warfare ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Military Presence ◽  
New Space ◽  
Public Opposition

Significance Johnson says the funding will be used to give the United Kingdom Europe’s largest navy, an enhanced global military presence, a new space force and greater cyber warfare capabilities. The Integrated Review, which identifies policy needs and the resources required to fund them, will not be ready until early 2021. Impacts It will be difficult to meet all the investment pledges in face of the budgetary pressures associated with COVID-19. Public opposition to the plans could grow, especially if it results in social policy cuts or increased taxes. It is likely that less investment will be directed towards the building of new armoured vehicles.

scholarly journals Generational conflict, consumption and the ageing welfare state in the United Kingdom

2010 ◽  
Vol 30 (8) ◽  
pp. 1439-1451 ◽  
Author(s):  
PAUL HIGGS ◽  
CHRIS GILLEARD
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Welfare Policy ◽  
Generational Conflict ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Viability ◽  
Working Out ◽  
The Welfare State

ABSTRACTThe British welfare state is over 60 years old. Those who were born, grew up and who are now growing old within its ambit are a distinctive generation. They have enjoyed healthier childhoods with better education than previous populations living in Britain. That they have done well under the welfare state is accepted, but some critics have argued that these advantages are at the expense of younger cohorts. The very success of this ‘welfare generation’ is perceived as undermining the future viability of the welfare state, and some argue that the current levels of income and wealth enjoyed by older cohorts can only be sustained by cutbacks in entitlements for younger cohorts. This will lead to a growing ‘generational fracture’ over welfare policy. This paper challenges this position, arguing that both younger and older groups find themselves working out their circumstances in conditions determined more by the contingencies of the market than by social policy.

Towards a theory of illiberal dualisation? Conceptualising new employment and social policy divisions in Poland and the United Kingdom

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-162
Author(s):  
Thomas Prosser ◽  
Giga Giorgadze
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Unemployed ◽  
The Relationship

Right-wing populist approaches to employment and social policy have become increasingly prevalent in recent years; such ideas stigmatise ‘others’ such as immigrants and the unemployed, while advocating the transfer of resources to favoured groups. In this article, based on a study of Poland and the United Kingdom, we contend that such developments are indicative of illiberal forms of dualisation and assess the relationship of trade unions with these processes. In conclusion, we discuss ways in which future investigations might develop more understanding of this concept.

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