Social Welfare

Originally published in 1980, Social Welfare: Why and How? is a collection of papers contributing to the subject of welfare philosophy, and to philosophising about and doing welfare.

Noel W Timms

List of Contributors Introduction Part I: The Growth and the Grounds of Social Welfare 1. The Welfare State and 'Post-Industrial' Values 2. Needs, Welfare and Political Allegiance 3. The Market and Welfare Services: Remedial Values 4. The Rehabilitation of the Market in Social Policy 5. Choice, Markets, and Welfare 6. Needs and Welfare 7. Rights, Welfare and Stigma 8. Richard Titmus: Social Policy and Social Life 9. Altruism, Duty and the Welfare State Part II: Models of Welfare and the Practice of Welfare 10. Galbraith and Social Welfare 11. Helping the Disadvantaged 12. Respect or Persons and Social Work: Social Work as 'Doing Philosophy' 13. Procedural Fairness and Rationing the Social Services 14. 'The Social Work Task': A Rulebook for Social Work? 15. Personal Needs and Moral Dilemmas: Some Examples from Social Work Bibliography