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Post-Fordism, the welfare state and the personal social services
— a comparison of Australia and Britain | | Author(s) | John Harris, Catherine McDonald |
| Journal title | The British Journal of Social Work, vol 30, no 1, February 2000 |
| Pages | pp 51-70 |
| Keywords | Services ; Social welfare ; Theory ; Comparison ; Australia ; United Kingdom. |
| Annotation | The post-Fordist welfare state thesis locates contemporary social welfare change within a wider analysis of the transformation of capitalist accumulation regimes. While this analysis is useful in directing attention to macro socio-economic change, it contains for the most part three shortcomings: an overemphasis in the role of historical "breaks" in the development of social welfare; an assumption of a degree of convergence of welfare states as a result of global economic forces; and and an assumption, rather than demonstration, of specific changes which are alleged to have taken place in various fields of social welfare. As a consequence, aspects of continuity in social welfare have been neglected. These three lacunae are considered through a comparative analysis of developments in personal social services in Australia and Britain. Services to older people are employed at the specific context of comparison in relation to: a shift from a unitary economy to a mixed economy of service provision; changes in the model of service delivery and consumption; and strengthening the governance function of the central state. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000411204 A |
| Classmark | I: TY: 4D: 48: 7YA: 8 |
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