Welfare rights and responsibilities : contesting social citizenship / [electronic resource]
Dwyer, Peter,author.
This book makes an original contribution to current debates around welfare reform through a qualitative investigation of the opinions and experiences of welfare users. Competing philosophical, political and academic perspectives on citizenship and welfare are also analysed and discussed, making this book important reading for students and teachers.
Welfare rights and responsibilities; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of acronyms; 1. Introduction; 2. Philosophical underpinnings. Liberalism and communitarianism: the individual citizen and community; 3. Five perspectives on citizenship and welfare; Part 2: Three dimensions of citizenship:welfare service users' accounts and debates; 4. Provision; 5. Conditionality; 6. Membership; 7. Citizenship and welfare: principles and practice; Bibliography; Appendix: methods and methodology; Index
Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-233) and index.
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Jul 2022).
This book makes an original contribution to current debates around welfare reform through a qualitative investigation of the opinions and experiences of welfare users. Competing philosophical, political and academic perspectives on citizenship and welfare are also analysed and discussed, making this book important reading for students and teachers.
Welfare rights movement
Citizenship
Public welfare