ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: WELFARE AND THE STATE
Volume 21
SOCIAL WELFARE: WHY AND HOW?
SOCIAL WELFARE: WHY AND HOW?
NOEL TIMMS
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Social welfare:
Why and How?
Edited by
Noel Timms
Professor of Social Work
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
First published in 1980
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Editorial matter and introduction Noel Timms 1980
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Social welfare: why and how? (The international library of welfare and philosophy).
1. Social service Philosophy Congresses
I. Timms, Noel
361'.001 HV31 8041299
ISBN 0 7100 0615 2
Contents
1The welfare state and post-industrial values
Alex Robinson
2Needs, welfare and political allegiance
Peter Taylor-Gooby
3The market and welfare services: remedial values
R. S. Downie
4The rehabilitation of the market in social policy
David Heald
5Choice, markets and welfare
Alf Davey
6Needs and welfare
Raymond Plant
7Rights, welfare and stigma
Peter Jones
8Richard Titmus: social policy and social life
David Watson
9Altruism, duty and the welfare state
Robert Sugden
10Galbraith and social welfare
David Reisman
11Helping the disadvantaged
Vernon Pratt
12Respect for persons and social work: social work as doing philosophy
Nicolas Ragg
13Procedural fairness and rationing the social services
Albert Weale
14The social work task: a rulebook for social work ?
Paul Dolan
15Personal needs and moral dilemmas: some examples from social work
Ian Sinclair
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Dr A. Robertson
Department of Social Administration, University of Edinburgh
Mr P. Taylor-Gooby
Department of Social Administration, University of Manchester
Professor R.S. Downie
Department of Moral Philosophy, University of Glasgow
Mr D. Heald
Economic and Social Research, University of Glasgow
Mr A. G. Davey
Department of Social Work Studies, University of New-castle upon Tyne
Professor R. Plant
Department of Politics, University of Southampton
Mr P.N. Jones
Department of Politics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Mr D. Watson
Department of Social Administration, University of Bristol
Mr R. Sugden
Department of Economics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Dr D.A. Reisman
Department of Economics, University of Surrey
Mr V. Pratt
School of Independent Studies, University of Lancaster
Dr N.M. Ragg
Department of Sociology, University of Surrey
Dr A.P. Weale
Department of Politics, University of York
Mr P. Dolan
Research, Planning and Development Section, Birmingham Social Services Department
Dr I. Sinclair
National Institute for Social Work, London
This is a collection of original papers aimed at contributing to the subject of welfare philosophy. The nature of the contributions is summarised in the headings under which the essays are organised and no attempt will be made in this introduction at any kind of detailed account of each contribution. Rather the aims of the introduction are modest: to describe briefly the source of our papers and how they came to their present form; and to discuss, again briefly, the field of welfare philosophy. In the course of this discussion, attention will be drawn to some of the significant themes emerging from our meetings and some of the limitations of our work. These latter suggest some at least of the shape future work should take.