Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents iii
3. Notes on contributors v
4. Introduction 1
5. Developments in UK social policy
6. Housing policy: coming in from the cold? 13
7. The NHS in England: from modernisation to marketisation? 29
8. Developments in social security 45
9. The rise of the meritocracy? New Labour and education in the second term 61
10. The personal social services 81
11. Social policy in the wider context
12. ‘Scottish solutions to Scottish problems’? Social welfare in Scotland since devolution 101
13. The primacy of ideology: social policy and the first term of the National Assembly for Wales 121
14. Attlee versus Blair: Labour governments and progressive social policy in historical perspective 143
15. Christian democracy, social democracy and the continental ‘welfare without work’ syndrome 167
16. Activation through thick and thin: progressive approaches to labour market activation 187
17. Social policy since 1979 – the impact of Thatcherism
18. Social policy since 1979: a view from the right 211
19. Mrs Thatcher’s legacy: getting it in perspective 231
20. Privatisation, privatisation, privatisation: the British welfare state since 1979 251
21. Social policy since 1979: a view from the USA 271
22. Index 291