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Social Policy in Times of Austerity

Global Economic Crisis and the New Politics of Welfare

Zoë Irving editor Kevin Farnsworth editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Policy Press

Published:15th Sep '15

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The 2008 global economic crisis has led to a new age of austerity, based more on politics than economics, which threatens to undermine the very foundations of the welfare state. However, as resistance to the logic of austerity grows, this important book, the second of a three-book series, argues that there is still room for optimism.

"[The editors] are tackling an important agenda when they bring together a range of contributions on different aspects of the idea and practice of austerity." Citizen's Income Newsletter
"This is sure to be an influential book on the contemporary literature on the politics of austerity. Featuring insightful contributions by some of the foremost theorists in social policy, the book offers a remarkably powerful analysis of governments’ recent overhauls of social policies.” Dr Lavinia Mitton, University of Kent
"A timely, thought-provoking collection of critical scholarship which helps to better understand the ideology, politics and economics of austerity in contemporary welfare states and presents the reader with alternatives to the standard policy prescriptions of today." Professor Peter Starke, University of Southern Denmark

ISBN: 9781447319122

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224 pages