Work and the Welfare State places street-level organizations at the analytic center of welfare-state politics, policy, and management. This volume offers a crit

This Very Short Introduction discusses the necessity of welfare states in modern capitalist societies. Situating social policy in an historical, sociological, a

This book explains why countries have adopted different policies for working parents through a comparative historical study of four nations: France, the Netherl

The welfare state is one of Britain's crowning achievements. Or is it? In this seminal book, now studied in universities in Britain and elsewhere, James Barthol

This theoretically innovative book shows how democratic social movements can use the welfare state to challenge domination in society.