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Social Policy since Titmuss*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

David Donnison
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Abstract

Britain, like other advanced urban industrial countries, is passing through economic changes more fundamental than the recession and inflation which take so much of the headlines. These changes in industrial structure have political implications which influence the distribution of power and the allocation of opportunities and rewards, both through the market and through the social wage furnished by governments. They call for a critical reappraisal of old ideas about the practice, the study and the teaching of social policy, and an attempt to formulate new approaches to this field – or to reformulate the old approaches.

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Journal of Social Policy , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , April 1979 , pp. 145 - 156
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1979

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References

1 Titmuss, ZD. R. M., The Social Division of Welfare, Eleanor Rathbone Memorial Lecture, Liverpool University Press, 1956Google Scholar; reprinted in Titmuss, R. M., Essays on the Welfare State, Allen and Unwin, London, 1958.Google Scholar

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4 These paragraphs develop an earlier version of similar arguments in Donnison, David, ‘The Discovery and Development of Knowledge’, in Proceedings of the International Association of Schools of Social Work, 1978.Google Scholar

5 Evidence to support these and subsequent assertions about the labour market appears in Donnison, David and Soto, Paul, The Good City: A Study of Urban Development and Policy in Britain, Heinemann Educational Books, forthcoming (1979).Google Scholar

6 For an analysis of these trends, see Dore, Ronald, British Factory – Japanese Factory, Allen and Unwin, London, 1973.Google Scholar

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