[PDF] The Australian Welfare State eBook

Author : John Wilson
Publisher : Macmillan Education AU
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 22,66 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780732930998

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Textbook for tertiary students which provides documentary sources as well as commentaries from academics in the field to outline the historical development of the Australian welfare state. Suitable for introductory courses in social welfare, politics, sociology and public policy. The material is presented in five parts including: policies for the employed in the last century, the struggle of Australian women to receive employment and child-related benefits from the state, the development of policies relating to indigenous and immigrant Australians and how the welfare state has dealt with the aged and refugees. The final part considers documents in Australian history that contrast discordant understandings of the purposes of the welfare state. Includes a table of contents, an index and list of references. Also available in hardback.

Author : Philip Mendes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 10,10 MB
Release : 2018-10-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1351801775

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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 on the Australian Council of Social Service and other welfare advocacy groups, it analyses the transformation from rights-based to conditional welfare. The Labor Party Government from 1972-75 is identified as the only clear cut example of Australia positively using welfare payments and services as an instrument to promote greater social equity, inclusion and participation. Since the mid-1970s, the Australian welfare state has gradually retreated from the social rights agenda conceived by the Whitlam Government. Australia has followed other Anglo-Saxon countries in adopting increasingly conditional and paternalistic measures that undermine the protection of social citizenship outside the labour market. In contrast, this text makes the case for an alternative participatory and decentralized welfare state model that would prioritize social care by empowering and supporting welfare service users at a local community level. This book will be of interest to academics, students and policy-makers working within social policy, social work and political sociology.

Author : McDonald
Publisher : Palgrave
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,61 MB
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781420256765

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In 1992, Australian sociologist Lois Bryson published what proved to be an important book entitled Welfare and the State: Who benefits? The central feature of this text was an exploration of the actual, as opposed to assumed, nature of the redistribution of resources via the Australian welfare state. Following on from Bryson’s work, The Australian Welfare State: Who benefits now? assesses trends in poverty and inequality in Australia from 1992 to the present and describes and evaluates the institutions that make up the Australian welfare state. Taking Bryson’s initial analysis as the baseline, this title illustrates the major structural and institutional developments in the Australian welfare state, and in the Australian economy and society, over this same period. It analyses political and policy responses to poverty and inequality in Australia and assesses the extent and direction of redistribution in key areas of state activity. This text definitively outlines the links between Australians’ conceptions about welfare and the redistributive outcomes of the welfare state, canvassing theoretical explanations about why many Australians develop and maintain misconceptions of the broad distributive mechanisms of the Australian welfare state and hold negative attitudes towards its social welfare element. Containing a number of pedagogical features including case studies, exercises, excerpts from Government agencies, and discussion questions, The Australian Welfare State is an indispensable resource for students undertaking studies in social policy from a range of disciplinary perspectives including sociology, public administration, economics and social work.

Author : Philip Mendes
Publisher : UNSW Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 36,90 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Australia
ISBN : 9781742234786

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In this fully revised third edition of Australia's Welfare Wars, Philip Mendes questions many of the key values and assumptions that determine contemporary social welfare policies, and the factors and forces that shape these policies in Australia.

Author : Michael Anthony Jones
Publisher :
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 15,30 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Public welfare
ISBN : 9780044421481

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An examination of the Australian welfare state.

Author : Peter Gordon Saunders
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 35,21 MB
Release : 1994-04-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780521454568

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Over the past few decades the welfare state has been under increasing pressure. Rapid social and economic change has left many people dependent on social institutions, while deteriorating economic prospects have led to calls to cut welfare expenditure. This book introduces key concepts in the welfare state debate and questions the arguments for further cutbacks. It examines: • the role, nature and effects of the welfare state in contemporary society • the links between the welfare state and the economy, particularly in Australia in the 1990s • the success of the Australian welfare state in achieving its aims of improving economic equality and social cohesion. These issues are considered in the light of the experiences of comparable countries able to offer lessons to Australia. Written by economists in clear language, the book makes an important contribution to the discussion of social issues.