Contents

pp iii-iv

Notes on contributors

pp v-vi

one - The year in social policy

pp 1-14

Part One - UK developments

pp 15-16

two - Couples and their money: theory and practice in personal finances

pp 17-38

three - Playing the game of partnership

pp 39-62

four - Etzioni’s spirit of communitarianism: community values and welfare realities in Blair’s Britain

pp 63-88

five - Researching consensual ‘sadomasochism’: perspectives on power, rights and responsibilities – the case of ‘disability’

pp 89-106

Part Two - International developments

pp 107-108

six - Global perspectives on the market reform of social security: protecting the public interest in perpetuity

pp 109-132

seven - Copenhagen +5: what should be done about the transition in Eastern Europe?

pp 133-156

eight - Politics and its impact on social policy in Taiwan, Hong Kong and mainland China

pp 157-180

nine - The male part-time worker and the welfare state: minor problem or major challenge?

pp 181-204

Part Three - Historical and conceptual developments

pp 205-206

ten - New communication technologies – connected welfare: new media and social policy

pp 207-226

eleven - Dis/counting the future

pp 227-246

twelve - New Labour, human nature and welfare reform

pp 247-266

thirteen - Through a lens darkly: sexuality and the 1834 New Poor Law

pp 267-290

Index

pp 291-301