ABSTRACT
There is no doubt that significant socio-economic changes have occurred over the last twenty years in the UK and other advanced capitalist societies. Consequently, Fordism, a bureaucratic, hierarchical model of industrial development has matured into Post-Fordism, with its greater emphasis on the individual, freedom of choice and flexibility, generating fresh debate and analysis. Towards a Post-Fordist Welfare State represents leading authors from a number of disciplines - social policy, sociology, politics and geography - who have played a key role in promoting and criticising Post-Fordist theorising and presents a thorough examination of the implications of applying Post-Fordism to contemporary restructuring of the British welfare state.
The work will appeal to a wide-ranging readership providing the first social policy text on Post-Fordism. It will be key reading for undergraduates, postgraduates and lecturers in social policy and administration, sociology, politics and public sector economics
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |1 pages
Part I: Post-Fordist analyses of welfare: applicability and critique
chapter |11 pages
The politics of the modernisation of the UK welfare state
chapter |25 pages
Social relations, welfare and the post-Fordism debate
part |1 pages
Part II Post-Fordism and the local welfare state
part |1 pages
Part III Flexibility, consumption and the future of welfare