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Social Policy

A Critical Introduction

Fiona Williams author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Published:15th Jun '89

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This major introductory textbook in social policy breaks new ground in arguing for the centrality of race, gender and class in welfare theory and practice.

'... essential reading on any unbiased social policy course.'
Times Higher Education Supplement

'An important general analysis of British social policy.'
Race and Immigration

'... offers a new framework which allows for an integrated analysis of gender, race and class in the investigation of the development of the welfare state.' Network

'... the book is also an impassioned polemic on the British oppression and exploitation of women and Black people.'
Times Higher Education Supplement

'A carefully thought out introductory text' New Community

ISBN: 9780745601502

Dimensions: 230mm x 159mm x 14mm

Weight: 369g

256 pages