Pete Alcock
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 244650 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Pete Alcock |
| NOMBRES | Pete |
| APELLIDO | Alcock |
| FIRMA | ALCOCK P |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Birmingham |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 44 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 83 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 8 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1976 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
The Student's Companion to Social Policy
The new edition of the bestselling guide to the issues students will encounter in the study of social policy in both the UK and abroad Fully updated and expanded, the sixth edition of The Student’s Companion to Social Policy remains the most accessible and comprehensive review of UK and comparative social policy available for undergraduate students. Written and edited by leading experts in the field, this authoritative textbook covers all the per…
Why we need welfare
Why We Need Welfare
What is welfare? Why is it a key part of the ‘common good’ for all? And how should we go about providing it? Pete Alcock, a well-respected expert, explains the challenges that collective welfare faces, and explores the complexities involved in delivering it, including debates about who benefits from welfare and how and where it is delivered. His primary focus is on the UK, including the problems of poverty and inequality, and how recent political…
Why We Need Welfare
Why We Need Welfare
From responsibility to accountability
From Partnership to the Big Society
This article provides an overview of the changing balance of state and third sector relations in the UK over the last decade or so. It briefly sets this in the broader context of the changing nature of these relations over a longer historical perspective, and it develops the notion of interdependence as a framework for understanding how these relations have become established in the country. Recent political discourses and policy publications are…
Hybrid Organizations and the Third Sector
Legislating for the big society? The case of the Public Services (Social V alue) Bill
A key aspect of the ‘big society’ discourse in England is an enhanced role for voluntary organizations in the delivery of public services. However, Conservative philosophy draws upon the contradictory positions of market liberals favouring the free market and a small state, and those favouring community self-help and local distinctiveness. This article explores how these tensions were played out in parliamentary debate over the second reading of …
New Policy Spaces
The development of third sector policy in the UK since 1997 has seen changes which have been of significance both for analysts and practitioners. This period has seen government engagement with and support for the sector extend far beyond the levels found throughout much of the last century. This has led to a growth in the size and scale of the sector and a closer involvement of sector representatives in political debate and policy planning. Thes…
Pete Alcock replies to Sullivan, ‘A Big Society needs an active state’ Big Society – contradiction or con trick
Start Up and Sustainability
Since the end of the last century governments in many western welfare regimes have been keen to promote the marketisation of public service delivery. This requires changes in the supply of, and demand for, alternative providers in this market, and in particular for many governments this has included third sector providers. This article examines the attempt by the UK Labour government to promote the supply of social enterprises in the market for h…
Constituting the Third Sector
Discussion about, and analysis of, the question of definition and the third sector and civil society more generally has developed to a significant degree in recent years. This paper can be located in a new phase of recent research, which seeks to attend to the historical, cultural and politically contingent nature of this domain’s boundaries. The process of constituting the sector is discussed as the product of new discourses of decontestation an…
Building the Big Society
International Social Policy
Social Policy in Britain
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION - The Development of Social Policy - PART TWO: WELFARE SERVICES - Social Security - Education - Health - Housing - Social Services - Employment - PART THREE: STRUCTURE - The State - The Market - The Voluntary Sector - Informal Welfare - PART FOUR: CONTEXT - Ideologies of Welfare - Economic Development - International and European Influences - Devolution and Local Control - PART FIVE: ISSUES - Social Divisions - Paying for W…
Understanding Poverty
Pete Alcock provides a comprehensive introduction to the analysis of poverty and social exclusion covering the definition, measurement, distribution and causes of poverty and the policies developed to combat it. The third edition has been rewritten to include recent developments while maintaining the successful broad approach of earlier editions
From social security to social inclusion
Maximum Feasible Understanding’ – Lessons from Previous Wars on Poverty
This article provides a historical analysis of particular policy initiatives undertaken in the US and the UK in the 1960s and 1970s and asks to what extent the lessons from these policy initiatives can be transferred to current policy development in the UK today. The focus of the discussion is local community-based interventions, aimed at combating poverty and exclusion. These are now generally referred to in the UK as Area Based Initiatives (ABI…
Work to Welfare
This book provides a new perspective on joblessness among men. During the last twenty years vast numbers of men of working age have moved completely out of the labour market into 'early retirement' or 'long-term sickness' and to take on new roles in the household. These trends stand in stark contrast to rising labour market participation among women. Based on an unprecedented range of new research on the detached male workforce in the UK, and loc…
Participation or Pathology
This paper discusses some of the tensions revealed in the development and implementation of recent area-based approaches to social policy in England. Such programmes are now a central feature of Government policy practice, although similar programmes have been developed in the past in the UK and other welfare capitalist countries. They reflect concerns to combat social exclusion and ‘join-up’ service provision. They are also evidence of a shift t…
The Influence of Dynamic Perspectives on Poverty Analysis and Anti-Poverty Policy in the UK
This article provides an overview of the academic debates and recent research on the dynamic perspective on poverty and anti-poverty policy. Renewed theoretical interest in dynamic analysis is discussed in the context of the more general debate about the roles of structure and agency in social relations. This is followed by a brief outline of some of the new empirical datasets now available for longitudinal research, in particular in the UK. The …
Work to Welfare
This book provides a new perspective on joblessness among men. During the last twenty years vast numbers of men of working age have moved completely out of the labour market into 'early retirement' or 'long-term sickness' and to take on new roles in the household. These trends stand in stark contrast to rising labour market participation among women. Based on an unprecedented range of new research on the detached male workforce in the UK, and loc…
Welfare and wellbeing
Welfare and wellbeing
New Policy Spaces
The development of third sector policy in the UK since 1997 has seen changes which have been of significance both for analysts and practitioners. This period has seen government engagement with and support for the sector extend far beyond the levels found throughout much of the last century. This has led to a growth in the size and scale of the sector and a closer involvement of sector representatives in political debate and policy planning. Thes…
Constituting the Third Sector
Discussion about, and analysis of, the question of definition and the third sector and civil society more generally has developed to a significant degree in recent years. This paper can be located in a new phase of recent research, which seeks to attend to the historical, cultural and politically contingent nature of this domain’s boundaries. The process of constituting the sector is discussed as the product of new discourses of decontestation an…
Participation or Pathology
This paper discusses some of the tensions revealed in the development and implementation of recent area-based approaches to social policy in England. Such programmes are now a central feature of Government policy practice, although similar programmes have been developed in the past in the UK and other welfare capitalist countries. They reflect concerns to combat social exclusion and ‘join-up’ service provision. They are also evidence of a shift t…
The Influence of Dynamic Perspectives on Poverty Analysis and Anti-Poverty Policy in the UK
This article provides an overview of the academic debates and recent research on the dynamic perspective on poverty and anti-poverty policy. Renewed theoretical interest in dynamic analysis is discussed in the context of the more general debate about the roles of structure and agency in social relations. This is followed by a brief outline of some of the new empirical datasets now available for longitudinal research, in particular in the UK. The …
Start Up and Sustainability
Since the end of the last century governments in many western welfare regimes have been keen to promote the marketisation of public service delivery. This requires changes in the supply of, and demand for, alternative providers in this market, and in particular for many governments this has included third sector providers. This article examines the attempt by the UK Labour government to promote the supply of social enterprises in the market for h…
Work to Welfare
This book provides a new perspective on joblessness among men. During the last twenty years vast numbers of men of working age have moved completely out of the labour market into 'early retirement' or 'long-term sickness' and to take on new roles in the household. These trends stand in stark contrast to rising labour market participation among women. Based on an unprecedented range of new research on the detached male workforce in the UK, and loc…
Maximum Feasible Understanding’ – Lessons from Previous Wars on Poverty
This article provides a historical analysis of particular policy initiatives undertaken in the US and the UK in the 1960s and 1970s and asks to what extent the lessons from these policy initiatives can be transferred to current policy development in the UK today. The focus of the discussion is local community-based interventions, aimed at combating poverty and exclusion. These are now generally referred to in the UK as Area Based Initiatives (ABI…
Why citizenship and welfare rights offer new hope for new welfare in Britain
This article outlines the prospects for new political strategies for state welfare in Britain in the 1990s, based upon the notion of citizenship and the idea of right to welfare as alternatives to the Thatcherite appeal for a private market in Welfare provision. The failure of post war state welfare provisions, which has been exploited over the past decade by Thatcher ism, was in large part a product of their failure to recognise the rights of co…
Pete Alcock replies to Sullivan, ‘A Big Society needs an active state’ Big Society – contradiction or con trick
Raising the Poverty Plateau
The role of means-testing within social policy has become more important and more central in the 1990s. However, extensive reliance on means-testing brings with it the accompanying problems of the unemployment and poverty traps. In the 1990s these take on more of the form of a poverty plateau, accentuated by a new savings trap. This article uses hypothetical calculations of benefit entitlement in order to explore the extent of the poverty plateau…
The Fowler reviews
Socialist security
From Partnership to the Big Society
This article provides an overview of the changing balance of state and third sector relations in the UK over the last decade or so. It briefly sets this in the broader context of the changing nature of these relations over a longer historical perspective, and it develops the notion of interdependence as a framework for understanding how these relations have become established in the country. Recent political discourses and policy publications are…
Welfare Rights Work into the 1990s-a Changing Agenda
The authors discuss the development of welfare rights advisory work in Britain, tracing its origins from the Community Development Projects of the late 1960s to services which are funded mainly by local government. Changes in social security legislation in 1980 introduced a largely non-discretionary regulated scheme which was quickly exploited by welfare rights advisers to maximise the take-up of single payments. Advisers and social workers were …
Take-up campaigns
This article is a critical review of the increasing number of Take-up Campaigns being run by local authorities in the 1980s in order to increase the levels of benefit take-up within their area. It outlines how these campaigns have developed as a pan of the growing welfare rights work which is now so much a feature of the British benefit system: and discusses how, after some initial problems, they have become more sophisticated and successful in t…
From responsibility to accountability
The place of corporate ownership and management in local government anti‐poverty strategy in Britain
This article discusses the issues arising from the corporate ownership and management of anti‐poverty activity in local authorities in Britain in the 1990s. It is based upon action research carried out in a sample of authorities as part of a project to develop and implement tools for the monitoring and evaluation of anti‐poverty activity, and developed in collaboration with the Local Government Anti‐Poverty Unit. Issues identified in connection w…
The advantages and disadvantages of the contribution base in targeting benefits
This article assesses the role which social insurance plays within the social security scheme in contemporary Great Britain, and presents this analysis for comparison and assessment to an international audience. The structure of the Beveridge scheme is briefly outlined and adaptations to it discussed. The scheme's failure to provide comprehensive social protection in Great Britain is then explained and the consequent drift towards social assistan…
The end of the line for social security
At the end of a decade in which major changeshave been made troughout all aspects of social and economic policy, it is now becoming increasingly clear that the underlying aim of Thatcherism hasbeen to challenge the social democratic or liberal democratic notion of the interventions. welfare state, and to replace the welfare state with the opportunity state. Althugh this has not been ensively consistent strategy, nor one free from contradictions a…
Take-up Campaigns
This article is a critical review of the increasing number of Take-up Campaigns being run by local authorities in the 1980s in order to increase the levels of benefit take-up within their area. It outlines how these campaigns have developed as a part of the growing welfare rights work which is now so much a feature of the British benefit system; and discusses how, after some initial problems, they have become more sophisticated and successful in …
Striking back for the empire
Legal Aid
Welfare Law and Order
Striking back for the empire
The Fowler reviews
Socialist security
Take-up Campaigns
This article is a critical review of the increasing number of Take-up Campaigns being run by local authorities in the 1980s in order to increase the levels of benefit take-up within their area. It outlines how these campaigns have developed as a part of the growing welfare rights work which is now so much a feature of the British benefit system; and discusses how, after some initial problems, they have become more sophisticated and successful in …
Take-up campaigns
This article is a critical review of the increasing number of Take-up Campaigns being run by local authorities in the 1980s in order to increase the levels of benefit take-up within their area. It outlines how these campaigns have developed as a pan of the growing welfare rights work which is now so much a feature of the British benefit system: and discusses how, after some initial problems, they have become more sophisticated and successful in t…
A Better Partnership between State and Individual Provision
Social security, the provision through the state of some form of monetary support for sections of the population, has been the central feature of welfare provision within Britain since the early developments of a capitalist wage economy. From Speenhamland to the workhouse or from insurance to Income Support, therefore, both the amount of state support to be provided, and the forms under which provision is made, have been the focus of debates and …
Why citizenship and welfare rights offer new hope for new welfare in Britain
This article outlines the prospects for new political strategies for state welfare in Britain in the 1990s, based upon the notion of citizenship and the idea of right to welfare as alternatives to the Thatcherite appeal for a private market in Welfare provision. The failure of post war state welfare provisions, which has been exploited over the past decade by Thatcher ism, was in large part a product of their failure to recognise the rights of co…
The end of the line for social security
At the end of a decade in which major changeshave been made troughout all aspects of social and economic policy, it is now becoming increasingly clear that the underlying aim of Thatcherism hasbeen to challenge the social democratic or liberal democratic notion of the interventions. welfare state, and to replace the welfare state with the opportunity state. Althugh this has not been ensively consistent strategy, nor one free from contradictions a…
The Social Economy and the Democratic State
Welfare Rights Work into the 1990s-a Changing Agenda
The authors discuss the development of welfare rights advisory work in Britain, tracing its origins from the Community Development Projects of the late 1960s to services which are funded mainly by local government. Changes in social security legislation in 1980 introduced a largely non-discretionary regulated scheme which was quickly exploited by welfare rights advisers to maximise the take-up of single payments. Advisers and social workers were …
The advantages and disadvantages of the contribution base in targeting benefits
This article assesses the role which social insurance plays within the social security scheme in contemporary Great Britain, and presents this analysis for comparison and assessment to an international audience. The structure of the Beveridge scheme is briefly outlined and adaptations to it discussed. The scheme's failure to provide comprehensive social protection in Great Britain is then explained and the consequent drift towards social assistan…
Understanding Poverty
Reconciling Cash and Care
This article contains the report of a small research project on the development of welfare rights checks for home care clients in social services departments. Welfare rights take-up activity has become an important feature of provision by local authority social services departments, frequently targeted on particular groups of clients known to experience problems in claiming full benefit entitlement. Users of home care services are such a client g…
Poverty and Social Security
Social policies are the product of history and not of logic. This is a simple message. But it is an important one to remember especially in the field of poverty and social security, for it makes the complexities and contradictions that have surrounded the development and implementation of policy throughout the last century easier to understand — and also perhaps easier to sympathise with. If one were to begin planning social security policy anew …
Raising the Poverty Plateau
The role of means-testing within social policy has become more important and more central in the 1990s. However, extensive reliance on means-testing brings with it the accompanying problems of the unemployment and poverty traps. In the 1990s these take on more of the form of a poverty plateau, accentuated by a new savings trap. This article uses hypothetical calculations of benefit entitlement in order to explore the extent of the poverty plateau…
The place of corporate ownership and management in local government anti‐poverty strategy in Britain
This article discusses the issues arising from the corporate ownership and management of anti‐poverty activity in local authorities in Britain in the 1990s. It is based upon action research carried out in a sample of authorities as part of a project to develop and implement tools for the monitoring and evaluation of anti‐poverty activity, and developed in collaboration with the Local Government Anti‐Poverty Unit. Issues identified in connection w…
Welfare and wellbeing
Welfare and wellbeing
Welfare and wellbeing
Richard Titmuss was Professor of Social Administration at the London School of Economics from 1950 until his death in 1973. His publications on welfare and social policy were radical and wide-ranging, spanning fields such as demography, class inequalities in health, social work, and altruism. Titmuss's work played a critical role in establishing the study of social policy as a scientific discipline; it helped to shape the development of the Briti…
Welfare and Wellbeing
This book brings together a selection of Richard Titmuss' important writings on a range of key social policy issues, together with commentary from experts in the field. The companion volume, Private Complaints and Public Health: Richard Titmuss on the National Health Service , is edited by Ann Oakley and Jonathan Barker (Policy Press, 2004).
The social division of welfare
Welfare and Wellbeing
Welfare and wellbeingRichard Titmuss's contribution to social policy
Richard Titmuss was Professor of Social Administration at the London School of Economics (LSE) from 1950 until his death in 1973. His publications on welfare and social policy were radical and wide-ranging, spanning fields such as demography, class inequalities in health, social work, and altruism. Titmuss's work played a critical role in establishing the study of social policy as a scientific discipline; it helped to shape the development of the…
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