Transformation of the Welfare State: The Silent Surrender of Public Responsibility

by Neil Gilbert

Book Overview

Since the early 1970s, debate has raged over the "crisis of the welfare state." As the United States successfully exported its bootstrap brand of capitalism and an ever-broadening range of public activity came to be viewed through the prism of profit and loss, social welfare policies were closely scrutinized worldwide. Welfare was no longer seen as a means to remedy the inherent flaws of capitalism, but rather was recast as part of the very problem...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195140745
• ISBN13: 9780195140743
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.2" x 6.4"