Kevin Farnsworth
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4075307 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Kevin Farnsworth |
| NOMBRES | Kevin |
| APELLIDO | Farnsworth |
| FIRMA | FARNSWORTH K |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8018-0096 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 106 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1998 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Just Words
Political manifestos are often framed as contracts between parties and voters. They also function as strategic texts that communicate party identity, define problems, set priorities, and articulate visions of a better future. This article examines the UK Labour Party’s 2024 election manifesto in this light, investigating what it reveals about its ideological direction and its social policy agenda. It places the 2024 manifesto in historical contex…
Philanthrocapitalists in global social policy
Crises of the welfare state, resilience, and pessimism of the intellect
The crises faced by welfare states have now endured for significantly longer than the counter‐period of stability, calm and cooperation between the 1940s and 1970s. Systemic crisis of welfare states tied to the contradictions of capitalism, and the exogenous crises for the welfare state that have afflicted its expansion have, however, been met by faith in its resilience evidenced in its economic functions and popularity. We question the basis for…
Introduction
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Retrenched, Reconfigured and Broken
This article is an attempt to take stock and critically reflect on the UK’s decade of austerity and social policy hostility over the past decade. It distinguishes between economic and political austerity and digs deeper into the data on expenditure in order to examine the impact of austerity on British public expenditure and politics. It argues that the decade of austerity was a hostile one for British social policy which not only undermined the …
Austerity
The 2008 global economic crisis paved the way for the construction of a new, elite-driven, capital-centric, shrunken welfare state project founded on ideology disguised as pragmatism and objective ‘truths’. Today, welfare states exist in a context in which a new politics of austerity sets the parameters of the debate. Austerity incorporates the neoliberal desire to shrink the (social welfare) state, deregulate labour markets and emphasise private…
Deciphering the International Monetary Fund’s (IMFs) position on austerity
Back in 2009, at the height of the global financial crisis, the London G20 forum met and declared the Washington consensus dead. What emerged in its place was a contradictory and confusing array of narratives and international policy prescriptions for post-crisis recovery that owed as much to the past as the present. Divisions within and among International Governmental Organisations (IGOs) arose about how best to address the economic challenges,…
Taking back Control or Empowering Big Business? New Risks to the Welfare State in the post-Brexit Competition for Investment
Capitalist economies depend on private business investment, and all governments in similar states compete to induce businesses to invest through various policy interventions. In so doing, they compete with other governments to retain current investors and to encourage new ones from elsewhere. The implications for policy-making and, by extension, citizens, are huge. The pressure on governments to capture new investment has an impact on taxation po…
Social Policy In Times of Austerity
Introduction: social policy in the age of austerity ~ Kevin Farnsworth and Zoe Irving Austerity: more than the sum of its parts ~ Kevin Farnsworth and Zoe Irving Conventional wisdom on government austerity: UK politics since the 1920s ~ Michael Hill ? The economics of austerity ~ Stephen Mcbride Neoliberalism, finance-dominated accumulation and enduring austerity: a cultural political economy perspective ~ Bob Jessop ? Alternatives to austerity ~…
Social Policy in Times of Austerity
Austerity
This chapter argues that despite its currency within social policy debate, ‘austerity’ itself remains under-scrutinised and under-theorised and sets out what, if anything, is new about this ‘new age’. First it considers the question of timing, taking the 2007-8 global financial crisis as a starting point and setting out the pressures on welfare states created by this event and its aftermath. Second, it examines the ‘idea’ of austerity, contrastin…
Social Policy in Times of Austerity
The 2008 global economic crisis was unprecedented in living memory and its impact on economic and social life immense. Large-scale social policy interventions played a crucial role in helping to mediate the crisis, and yet the welfare state continues to come under attack. A new age of austerity, based more on politics than economics, is threatening to undermine the very foundations of the welfare state. However, as this important book illustrates…
Corporate Taxation, Corporate Power, and Corporate Harm
Globalisation has increased corporate tax competition amongst states and facilitated widespread corporate tax avoidance. Some of the largest businesses now pay little or no tax: in some cases with the active assistance of governments. This article examines contemporary corporation tax policies, outlines some of the key methods corporations use to minimise their tax liabilities, explores the interdependencies between the demand for reduced tax lia…
Frances Fox Piven – Plenary Lecture UK Social Policy Association Annual Conference 8 th July 2014
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Bringing Corporate Welfare In
One of the consequences of the post-2008 global economic crisis is that it has thrust into the public spotlight the issue of state provision for corporations, putting paid to the myth that capitalism and businesses could ultimately be more profitable, more efficient and more competitive without state interference and direct support. The reality is that corporations of every size and within every sector depend on government support in some way. He…
Social Policy Review 24
This edition of Social Policy Review marks the 40th anniversary of a publication from the UK Social Policy Association devoted to presenting an up-to-date and diverse review of the best in social policy scholarship. It includes a special Anniversary Preface celebrating the publication's evolution and distinctive contributions. Continuing its reputation as a cutting edge, international publication in social policy, Part One of this edition analyse…
Social versus Corporate Welfare
The greatest myth of modern times is the suggestion that capitalism and corporations do better with less government. The global economic crisis has certainly put paid to this idea. But the massive eme
Varieties of crisis, varieties of austerity
In the period since 2008 it has become clear that the financial collapse and its ensuing crises have affected countries differently. However, a new ‘austerity consensus’ appears to have developed which is threatening the welfare gains established since the 1930s. By considering in comparative perspective the extent of austerity measures and the ways in which the normalisation of the ‘new age’ is being resisted, this article reflects on whether we…
Social Policy in Challenging TimesEconomic Crisis and Welfare Systems
Bringing together a range of expert contributions, this book is the first to address the relationship between the economic crisis and social policy within an international context. The key lesson to emerge is that 'the crisis' is better understood as a variety of crises, each mediated by national context
Social policy in challenging times
Business and Human Rights
Business in education
New Labour promised to introduce dramatic reforms to the education system when it came to power in 1997 and one of the key strategies it employed in the pursuit of educational improvement was the utilisation of the methods of the private sector. Arguably its most controversial policy was its effective privatisation of the functions of 'failing' Local Education Authorities (LEAs). Although criticisms of this policy were widespread, the potency of …
Capital to the rescue? New Labour’s business solutions to old welfare problems
Business people, business associations and individual firms have been enlisted in various ways by New Labour as part of their strategy to identify and resolve a number of problems within the British welfare state. Business has been important to New Labour’s welfare strategies in at least three ways. First, New Labour has endeavoured to gear social policy more towards the needs of the profit making sector in the hope that this would increase compe…
Globalisation, business and British public policy
The Business-Social Policy Nexus
It is increasingly impossible to understand and explain the shape and delivery of contemporary social policy unless we consider the role of business. Several factors have been at work here. First, many of the changes in social policy introduced since the 1970s have been in response either to business demands or more general concerns about national competitiveness and the needs of business. Second, globalisation has increased corporate power withi…
Varieties of crisis, varieties of austerity
In the period since 2008 it has become clear that the financial collapse and its ensuing crises have affected countries differently. However, a new ‘austerity consensus’ appears to have developed which is threatening the welfare gains established since the 1930s. By considering in comparative perspective the extent of austerity measures and the ways in which the normalisation of the ‘new age’ is being resisted, this article reflects on whether we…
Capital to the rescue? New Labour’s business solutions to old welfare problems
Business people, business associations and individual firms have been enlisted in various ways by New Labour as part of their strategy to identify and resolve a number of problems within the British welfare state. Business has been important to New Labour’s welfare strategies in at least three ways. First, New Labour has endeavoured to gear social policy more towards the needs of the profit making sector in the hope that this would increase compe…
Austerity
The 2008 global economic crisis paved the way for the construction of a new, elite-driven, capital-centric, shrunken welfare state project founded on ideology disguised as pragmatism and objective ‘truths’. Today, welfare states exist in a context in which a new politics of austerity sets the parameters of the debate. Austerity incorporates the neoliberal desire to shrink the (social welfare) state, deregulate labour markets and emphasise private…
Retrenched, Reconfigured and Broken
This article is an attempt to take stock and critically reflect on the UK’s decade of austerity and social policy hostility over the past decade. It distinguishes between economic and political austerity and digs deeper into the data on expenditure in order to examine the impact of austerity on British public expenditure and politics. It argues that the decade of austerity was a hostile one for British social policy which not only undermined the …
Bringing Corporate Welfare In
One of the consequences of the post-2008 global economic crisis is that it has thrust into the public spotlight the issue of state provision for corporations, putting paid to the myth that capitalism and businesses could ultimately be more profitable, more efficient and more competitive without state interference and direct support. The reality is that corporations of every size and within every sector depend on government support in some way. He…
Deciphering the International Monetary Fund’s (IMFs) position on austerity
Back in 2009, at the height of the global financial crisis, the London G20 forum met and declared the Washington consensus dead. What emerged in its place was a contradictory and confusing array of narratives and international policy prescriptions for post-crisis recovery that owed as much to the past as the present. Divisions within and among International Governmental Organisations (IGOs) arose about how best to address the economic challenges,…
Globalisation, business and British public policy
Welfare through Work
Occupational welfare has been a relatively neglected area in both theoretical and empirical studies of the welfare state despite its importance to overall levels of social provision. Surprisingly, there has not yet been a comprehensive examination of British occupational social provision, as opposed to non‐wage benefits more generally or specific provision such as pensions, housing or childcare. This neglect can be explained both by the perceptio…
Promoting business-centred welfare
Taking back Control or Empowering Big Business? New Risks to the Welfare State in the post-Brexit Competition for Investment
Capitalist economies depend on private business investment, and all governments in similar states compete to induce businesses to invest through various policy interventions. In so doing, they compete with other governments to retain current investors and to encourage new ones from elsewhere. The implications for policy-making and, by extension, citizens, are huge. The pressure on governments to capture new investment has an impact on taxation po…
Business in education
New Labour promised to introduce dramatic reforms to the education system when it came to power in 1997 and one of the key strategies it employed in the pursuit of educational improvement was the utilisation of the methods of the private sector. Arguably its most controversial policy was its effective privatisation of the functions of 'failing' Local Education Authorities (LEAs). Although criticisms of this policy were widespread, the potency of …
Crises of the welfare state, resilience, and pessimism of the intellect
The crises faced by welfare states have now endured for significantly longer than the counter‐period of stability, calm and cooperation between the 1940s and 1970s. Systemic crisis of welfare states tied to the contradictions of capitalism, and the exogenous crises for the welfare state that have afflicted its expansion have, however, been met by faith in its resilience evidenced in its economic functions and popularity. We question the basis for…
International Class Conflict and Social Policy
The history of welfare states is marked by divisions between capital and labour and these divisions are replicated at the international level. At the heart of these divisions is enduring class interests which accord different priorities to social and economic factors. That these divisions exist is neither surprising, nor necessarily a problem; the problem, this paper argues, is the increasingly high priority given to business interests by ever mo…
Minding the business interest
Explanations documenting the development of UK social policy have been wide ranging in every way, barring one: no thorough‐going explanation of the role of capital in the formation of welfare policy has yet been attempted. This paper is part of a broader study that attempts to bridge such gaps in current research. It does this by focusing on the Confederation of British Industry, the UK's largest employers' organisation, and its interest in and i…
Minding the business interest
Explanations documenting the development of UK social policy have been wide ranging in every way, barring one: no thorough‐going explanation of the role of capital in the formation of welfare policy has yet been attempted. This paper is part of a broader study that attempts to bridge such gaps in current research. It does this by focusing on the Confederation of British Industry, the UK's largest employers' organisation, and its interest in and i…
Corporate power and social policy in a global economy
Welfare through Work
Occupational welfare has been a relatively neglected area in both theoretical and empirical studies of the welfare state despite its importance to overall levels of social provision. Surprisingly, there has not yet been a comprehensive examination of British occupational social provision, as opposed to non‐wage benefits more generally or specific provision such as pensions, housing or childcare. This neglect can be explained both by the perceptio…
International Class Conflict and Social Policy
The history of welfare states is marked by divisions between capital and labour and these divisions are replicated at the international level. At the heart of these divisions is enduring class interests which accord different priorities to social and economic factors. That these divisions exist is neither surprising, nor necessarily a problem; the problem, this paper argues, is the increasingly high priority given to business interests by ever mo…
Promoting business-centred welfare
Business in education
New Labour promised to introduce dramatic reforms to the education system when it came to power in 1997 and one of the key strategies it employed in the pursuit of educational improvement was the utilisation of the methods of the private sector. Arguably its most controversial policy was its effective privatisation of the functions of 'failing' Local Education Authorities (LEAs). Although criticisms of this policy were widespread, the potency of …
Capital to the rescue? New Labour’s business solutions to old welfare problems
Business people, business associations and individual firms have been enlisted in various ways by New Labour as part of their strategy to identify and resolve a number of problems within the British welfare state. Business has been important to New Labour’s welfare strategies in at least three ways. First, New Labour has endeavoured to gear social policy more towards the needs of the profit making sector in the hope that this would increase compe…
Globalisation, business and British public policy
The Business-Social Policy Nexus
It is increasingly impossible to understand and explain the shape and delivery of contemporary social policy unless we consider the role of business. Several factors have been at work here. First, many of the changes in social policy introduced since the 1970s have been in response either to business demands or more general concerns about national competitiveness and the needs of business. Second, globalisation has increased corporate power withi…
Business and Human Rights
Social Policy in Challenging TimesEconomic Crisis and Welfare Systems
Bringing together a range of expert contributions, this book is the first to address the relationship between the economic crisis and social policy within an international context. The key lesson to emerge is that 'the crisis' is better understood as a variety of crises, each mediated by national context
Social policy in challenging times
Social Policy Review 24
This edition of Social Policy Review marks the 40th anniversary of a publication from the UK Social Policy Association devoted to presenting an up-to-date and diverse review of the best in social policy scholarship. It includes a special Anniversary Preface celebrating the publication's evolution and distinctive contributions. Continuing its reputation as a cutting edge, international publication in social policy, Part One of this edition analyse…
Social versus Corporate Welfare
The greatest myth of modern times is the suggestion that capitalism and corporations do better with less government. The global economic crisis has certainly put paid to this idea. But the massive eme
Varieties of crisis, varieties of austerity
In the period since 2008 it has become clear that the financial collapse and its ensuing crises have affected countries differently. However, a new ‘austerity consensus’ appears to have developed which is threatening the welfare gains established since the 1930s. By considering in comparative perspective the extent of austerity measures and the ways in which the normalisation of the ‘new age’ is being resisted, this article reflects on whether we…
Bringing Corporate Welfare In
One of the consequences of the post-2008 global economic crisis is that it has thrust into the public spotlight the issue of state provision for corporations, putting paid to the myth that capitalism and businesses could ultimately be more profitable, more efficient and more competitive without state interference and direct support. The reality is that corporations of every size and within every sector depend on government support in some way. He…
Social Policy In Times of Austerity
Introduction: social policy in the age of austerity ~ Kevin Farnsworth and Zoe Irving Austerity: more than the sum of its parts ~ Kevin Farnsworth and Zoe Irving Conventional wisdom on government austerity: UK politics since the 1920s ~ Michael Hill ? The economics of austerity ~ Stephen Mcbride Neoliberalism, finance-dominated accumulation and enduring austerity: a cultural political economy perspective ~ Bob Jessop ? Alternatives to austerity ~…
Social Policy in Times of Austerity
Austerity
This chapter argues that despite its currency within social policy debate, ‘austerity’ itself remains under-scrutinised and under-theorised and sets out what, if anything, is new about this ‘new age’. First it considers the question of timing, taking the 2007-8 global financial crisis as a starting point and setting out the pressures on welfare states created by this event and its aftermath. Second, it examines the ‘idea’ of austerity, contrastin…
Social Policy in Times of Austerity
The 2008 global economic crisis was unprecedented in living memory and its impact on economic and social life immense. Large-scale social policy interventions played a crucial role in helping to mediate the crisis, and yet the welfare state continues to come under attack. A new age of austerity, based more on politics than economics, is threatening to undermine the very foundations of the welfare state. However, as this important book illustrates…
Corporate Taxation, Corporate Power, and Corporate Harm
Globalisation has increased corporate tax competition amongst states and facilitated widespread corporate tax avoidance. Some of the largest businesses now pay little or no tax: in some cases with the active assistance of governments. This article examines contemporary corporation tax policies, outlines some of the key methods corporations use to minimise their tax liabilities, explores the interdependencies between the demand for reduced tax lia…
Frances Fox Piven – Plenary Lecture UK Social Policy Association Annual Conference 8 th July 2014
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Deciphering the International Monetary Fund’s (IMFs) position on austerity
Back in 2009, at the height of the global financial crisis, the London G20 forum met and declared the Washington consensus dead. What emerged in its place was a contradictory and confusing array of narratives and international policy prescriptions for post-crisis recovery that owed as much to the past as the present. Divisions within and among International Governmental Organisations (IGOs) arose about how best to address the economic challenges,…
Taking back Control or Empowering Big Business? New Risks to the Welfare State in the post-Brexit Competition for Investment
Capitalist economies depend on private business investment, and all governments in similar states compete to induce businesses to invest through various policy interventions. In so doing, they compete with other governments to retain current investors and to encourage new ones from elsewhere. The implications for policy-making and, by extension, citizens, are huge. The pressure on governments to capture new investment has an impact on taxation po…
Austerity
The 2008 global economic crisis paved the way for the construction of a new, elite-driven, capital-centric, shrunken welfare state project founded on ideology disguised as pragmatism and objective ‘truths’. Today, welfare states exist in a context in which a new politics of austerity sets the parameters of the debate. Austerity incorporates the neoliberal desire to shrink the (social welfare) state, deregulate labour markets and emphasise private…
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