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The enabling state : modern welfare capitalism in America / Neil Gilbert, Barbara Gilbert.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gilbert, Neil, 1940-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human services--United States.
- Human services.
- Public welfare--United States.
- Public welfare.
- Welfare state.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (236 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, c1989.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Studies of the welfare state have formed an important part of public policy research in the USA since World War II. This volume examines and reconsiders the scope of social welfare transfers, how they are delivered, and whom they benefit.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments; Contents; Foreword; 1. The Structure of Social Welfare; 2. Commercialization of the Social Market; 3. Personal Social Services: Caring for Profit; 4. Income Maintenance: Indirect Methods and Private Obligations; 5. Asset Maintenance: The Special Case of Farm Welfare; 6. Health Care: Cost Containment and the Service Ethos; 7. Housing: A Joint Venture; 8. The Enabling State: Public Support for Private Responsibility; 9. Implications for the Comparative Study of Social Welfare; Appendix; Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-52401-4
- 1-4237-6388-2
- 0-19-536318-3
- 1-60129-735-1
- OCLC:
- 171570937
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