Empowerment and control in the Australian welfare state / Philip Mendes.
This book explores the tensions between the competing social rights and social control functions of the modern Australian welfare state. By critically examining the history and rhetoric of the Australian welfare state from 1972 to the present day, and using the author's long-standing research o...
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2018.
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Table of Contents:
- The rise of the Australian welfare state
- The wage earners welfare state and the rediscovery of poverty
- The social democratic Whitlam labor government 1972-75
- The anti-welfare backlash locally and internationally
- The decline of Keynesianism, the revival of classical liberalism and the alleged welfare state crisis
- The conservative liberal-national party coalition attempts to roll back the welfare state 1975-1983
- Labor retreats from social democracy and adopts targeted welfare, the Hawke and Keating governments 1983-1996
- The Australian neoliberal campaign to cut welfare : the role of think tanks, the media and corporate lobby groups
- The new convergence around conditional welfare
- Restoring self-reliance and the work ethic and saving taxpayers funds : the liberal-national party coalition's approach to social welfare 1983-2018
- Labor accepts welfare conditionality 1996-2018
- Rejecting the neoliberal consensus : welfare policy dissent and alternatives
- Case studies of the Australian council of social service (ACOSS) and the Australian greens
- Towards a participatory welfare model
- Conclusion
- Index.