Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Note for readers viii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Notes on the section editors xi
6. Introduction xv
7. Section I Sociology and social policy
8. Introduction 2
9. 1 Sociology and social policy 6
10. 2 Origins of sociology and social policy 11
11. 3 Guerrillas, subordinates and passers-by 15
12. 4 The rise of international social policy 24
13. Section II From welfare state to international welfare
14. Introduction 28
15. 5 Measures and explanations of poverty in high income and low income countries 34
16. 6 The international analysis of poverty 57
17. 7 The need to construct an international welfare state 82
18. 8 ‘Absolute’ and ‘overall’ poverty: the 1995 Copenhagen approach to the fulfilment of human rights 96
19. 9 The 2009 Minority Report on the World Bank 100
20. 10 Manifesto: international action to defeat poverty 107
21. 11 Investment in social security: a possible UN model for child benefit? 111
22. Section III Poverty
23. Introduction 130
24. 12 Poverty: ten years after Beveridge 136
25. 13 Measuring poverty 148
26. 14 The meaning of poverty 157
27. 15 The poor and the poorest 170
28. 16 Concepts of poverty and deprivation 191
29. 17 Deprivation 214
30. 18 Theoretical disputes about poverty 227
31. 19 The construction of a measure of deprivation 252
32. 20 Child poverty in the developing world 257
33. Section IV Inequality and social exclusion
34. Introduction 270
35. 21 The truce on inequality 275
36. 22 Poverty: has the welfare state failed? 281
37. 23 How the rich stay rich 287
38. 24 The pursuit of equality 295
39. 25 A matter of class 300
40. 26 Underclass and overclass 306
41. 27 The rich man in his castle 312
42. 28 Poverty, social exclusion and social polarisation 316
43. 29 The international measurement of ‘absolute’ and ‘overall’ poverty 324
44. Section V Health inequalities and health policy
45. Introduction 334
46. 30 The Black Report 341
47. 31 Inequality and the health service 358
48. 32 Health and deprivation 374
49. 33 Individual or social responsibility for premature death? 383
50. 34 Better benefits for health 395
51. Section VI Older people
52. Introduction 406
53. 35 The family system of care 413
54. 36 The anxieties of retirement 428
55. 37 Some effects upon old people of living in residential homes 438
56. 38 The structured dependency of the elderly 449
57. 39 New pensions for old 465
58. 40 Policies for the aged in the 21st century 473
59. Section VII Disability
60. Introduction 488
61. 41 The disabled in society 495
62. 42 Social planning for the mentally handicapped 500
63. 43 Operational measures of disability as a guide to action 503
64. 44 Elderly people with disabilities 507
65. 45 An aid scale for disabled children 511
66. 46 Stigma: the experience of disability 515
67. 47 Disabled people and the long-term sick 518
68. 48 Employment and disability 521
69. 49 The political sociology of mental handicap 528
70. 50 The disabled need help 539
71. 51 Poverty and disability 545
72. Section VIII Social justice and human rights
73. Introduction 554
74. 52 A policy to establish the legal rights of low income families 564
75. 53 The right to social security and national development 572
76. 54 Using human rights to reduce inequalities in economic and social development 605
77. 55 Persuasion and conformity: an assessment of the Borrie Report on social justice 608
78. 56 Using human rights to defeat ageism 622
79. 57 We have got a fair way to go 635
80. 58 Human rights, transnational corporations and the World Bank 641
81. Index 661