Empowerment and Control in the Australian Welfare State - A Critical Analysis of Australian Social Policy Since 1972 (Hardcover)

This book explores the tensions between the competing social rights and social control functions of the modern Australian welfare state. By critically examining the history and rhetoric of the Australian welfare state from 1972 to the present day, and using the author's long-standing research on the Australian Council of Social Service and other welfare advocacy groups, it analyses the transformation from rights-based to conditional welfare. The Labor Party Government from 1972-75 is identified as the only clear cut example of Australia positively using welfare payments and services as an instrument to promote greater social equity, inclusion and participation. Since the mid-1970s, the Australian welfare state has gradually retreated from the social rights agenda conceived by the Whitlam Government. Australia has followed other Anglo-Saxon countries in adopting increasingly conditional and paternalistic measures that undermine the protection of social citizenship outside the labour market. In contrast, this text makes the case for an alternative participatory and decentralized welfare state model that would prioritize social care by empowering and supporting welfare service users at a local community level. This book will be of interest to academics, students and policy-makers working within social policy, social work and political sociology.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Social Welfare Around the World
Release date:	October 2018
First published:	2019
Authors:	Philip Mendes
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	244
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-63319-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social welfare & social services > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Central government > Central government policies
LSN:	1-138-63319-4
Barcode:	9781138633193

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