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Front Cover -- Transformational Moments in Social Welfare: What Role for Voluntary Action? -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of figures and illustrations -- List of abbreviations -- About the authors -- Preface -- ONE Transformational moments? -- Introduction -- Scope and definitions -- Frontier and borderland: researching the mixed economy of welfare -- Welfare and social policy reform in the 1930s and 1940s -- Turning points and transformational moments, 1951-2010 -- The 2010s, social welfare and voluntary action -- About this book |
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TWO Researching voluntary action and welfare -- Introduction -- Approach -- Data collection methods -- Accessing relevant documents -- Data preparation -- Analysis -- Theoretical lenses -- Summary -- THREE Positioning voluntary action in social welfare -- Introduction -- It is part of who we are: voluntary action, democracy and society -- A broad consensus -- Challenge versus consensus: differences between groups of actors -- Undermined but needed more than ever: changes over time -- It is part of what we do: voluntary action, service delivery and meeting need |
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Recognising the limits of voluntary action: concerns about form, quality and quantity -- In search of distinctiveness: growing contestation -- Summary -- FOUR Social welfare needs -- Introduction -- New and expanding needs: a point of connection across time -- 1940s: consensus on significance of unmet needs -- 2010s: recognition of growing levels of unmet need -- Deserving and undeserving welfare recipients: an enduring narrative -- Questions of blame: exposing differences across time and between actors -- Questions of responsibility: from collective to individual responses -- Summary |
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FIVE Working together in a mixed economy of welfare -- Introduction -- The 1940s: a pragmatic partnership to overcome multiple failures -- Pragmatic compromise and a strengthening of partnership -- Negotiating roles in an evolving mixed economy of welfare -- Support for a welfare mix that enabled choice and competition -- A resultant pragmatic partnership and subsequent evolution -- The 2010s: antagonistic collaboration in the context of state failure -- Developing narratives of state failure -- An expanded, or contracted, role for voluntary action? |
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Competition, choice and public service markets -- Resultant antagonistic collaboration -- Summary -- SIX Making room for voluntary action -- Introduction -- A new partnership with the state in the 1940s: the NOPWC and the National Assistance Act -- The emergence of the NOPWC -- Passing the National Assistance Act 1948 -- The NOPWC and field-shaping narratives -- Navigating a decoupled relationship in the 2010s: reforming children's services -- Back to basics: positioning Children England -- Constructing strategic voluntary sector narratives -- A line in the sand: resisting the moving frontier |
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ePDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. During the consolidation of the welfare state in the 1940s, and its reshaping in the 2010s, the boundaries between the state, voluntary action, the family and the market were called into question. This interdisciplinary book explores the impact of these ‘transformational moments’ on the role, position and contribution of voluntary action to social welfare. It considers how different narratives have been constructed, articulated and contested by public, political and voluntary sector actors, making comparisons within and across the 1940s and 2010s. With a unique analysis of recent and historical material, this important book illuminates contemporary debates about voluntary action and welfare. |
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Social policy -- History.
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Public welfare -- History.
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Voluntarism -- History.
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Politique sociale -- Histoire.
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Aide sociale -- Histoire.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Philanthropy & Charity.
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Public welfare
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Social policy
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Voluntarism
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| Indexed Term |
Context; Social Welfare; Strategic Narratives; Transformational Moments; Voluntary Action |
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History
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| Added Author |
Paine, Angela Ellis, 1975-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Brewis, Georgina Transformational Moments in Social Welfare Bristol : Policy Press,c2021 9781447357209 |
| ISBN |
9781447357230 (electronic bk.) |
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144735723X (electronic bk.) |
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9781447357216 (ePub ebook) |
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1447357213 |
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9781447357209 (hbk.) |
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AU@ 000069972240 |
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UKMGB 020001280 |
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AU@ 000069985053 |
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