The Idea of Welfare (Routledge Revivals)

Pinker, Robert

ISBN 10: 0367177625 / ISBN 13: 9780367177621

Published by Routledge, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Idea of Welfare (Routledge Revivals)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367177625
• ISBN 13: 9780367177621
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

Originally published in 1979, The Idea of Welfare critically reviews the concepts of egoism and altruism as they are expressed in residual and intuitional models of social welfare. The book describes the way in which the scope and limits of obligation and entitlement are determined in practice by the interplay of familial, communal, national and international loyalties. It also looks at the similarities and differences between economic and social forms of exchange and mutual aid. These major themes are developed in a comparative review, which explores the effects of social change on the ways in which people seek to preserve and enhance their welfare through self-help and collective action. The book focuses on Britain, the USA and Russia, it challenges conventional definitions of welfare, largely concerned with formal social policies sponsored by government and uses historical material to illustrate the dominant forms of a mutual aid which were practised before the development of modern welfare states.

About the Author

Robert (Bob) Pinker served his academic apprenticeship in Richard Titmuss’s department at the LSE from the late 1950s under Brian Abel-Smith and Peter Townsend, as a research worker and a higher degree student. Successive academic appointments followed at Goldsmiths College, Chelsea College and then the LSE, from where he retired in 1996 as Professor of Social Administration.