Books in the Social Policy: Welfare, Power and Diversity series

Starting with the idea of "the family", this book provides an historical perspective on the emergence and development of social welfare, tracing its historical roots and showing its development through the 19th and 20th centuries.

In the SOCIAL POLICY: WELFARE, POWER AND DIVERSITY series. Considers the social construction of social difference, dealing with the processes through which social problems and inequalities are constructed. Also examines the shifting ways in which ideas about issues such as disability and sexuality influence the development of social policies.

This volume explores possible futures of welfare by considering different types of relationship between the public and the state through which social welfare may be organized beyond the millennium.

In the SOCIAL POLICY: WELFARE, POWER AND DIVERSITY series. Considers the social construction of social difference, dealing with the processes through which social problems and inequalities are constructed. Also examines the shifting ways in which ideas about issues such as disability and sexuality influence the development of social policies.