Hartley Dean
Biographic Data
| ID | 252779 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hartley Dean |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hartley |
| FAMILY NAME | Dean |
| SIGNATURE | DEAN H |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4505-5227 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 64 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 348 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 61 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1936 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Marginalization, Outsiders
Marginalization is the process by which groups or individuals may become outsiders, excluded from economic, social, or cultural participation. The process has been variously observed in relation to the experiences of minority ethnic immigrants in industrialized countries on the one hand, and systemically impoverished majorities in less economically developed countries on the other. It may be manifested in exclusion from labor market participation…
Welfare Dependency and Welfare Underuse
“Welfare dependency” is a term applied (sometimes pejoratively) to the use of public benefits and services provided by the state. Such benefits and services have evolved in economically developed countries in recognition of the collective responsibilities owed to dependent members of society at points in the life course when they may not be able fully to depend on provision by families and/or the labor market. Critics of state benefits and social…
Universal Basic Income in Historical Perspective
Journal Article Universal Basic Income in Historical Perspective Get access Peter Sloman, Daniel Zamora Vargas and Pedro Ramos Pinto (eds). Universal Basic Income in Historical Perspective. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 2021. pp. 305 + XIII. ISBN: 9783030757052 Hartley Dean Hartley Dean London School of Economics and Political Science Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Contributions to P…
From altruism to sociality: A switch in perception
The article critically reviews concepts and uses of the term altruism in relation to the emergence of the capitalist welfare state. It argues that altruism may be regarded as a fetishized representation of ‘sociality’ and that notions of altruism tend to obscure or distort understandings of the essential social interdependence that characterises humanity as a species. The article reaches back to anthropological evidence, to religious and philosop…
Basic Income: A History
In recent years the basic income (BI) debate has re-emerged with increasing vigour. One of the most prolific contributors has been Malcolm Torry, currently General Manager of the Basic Income Earth
A Radical Humanist Approach to Social Welfare
This conceptual paper presents a radical humanist framing of the relationship between human needs and social welfare. It draws and develops its conceptualisation of radical humanism from the early philosophical writings of Marx in which he identified the radical constitutive needs of the human species. It seeks to translate the definitive characteristics of humanity's ‘species being’ – namely consciousness, ‘work’, sociality and historical develo…
Social Advantage and Disadvantage
Social advantage and disadvantage are potent catch-all terms. They have no established definition but, considered in relation to one another, they can embrace a wide variety of more specific concepts that address the ways in which human society causes, exacerbates, or fails to prevent social divisions or injustices. This book captures the sense in which any conceptualization of disadvantage is concerned with the consequences of processes by which…
A post-Marshallian conception of global social citizenship
The object of this chapter is to position social citizenship as a process that is axiomatically global. The chapter proceeds from the premise that rights of citizenship are socially constructed. In that sense, all rights are social. However, the term 'social rights' has conventionally applied to the rights supposedly established by modern welfare states (Marshall, 1950). But the services and protection that are guaranteed by welfare states are co…
Social Rights and Human Welfare
An essential introduction to rights-based approaches in social policy, this text critically explores how social rights underpin human wellbeing. It discusses social rights as rights of citizenship in developed welfare states and as an essential component within the international human rights and human development agenda. It provides a valuable introduction for students and researchers in social policy and related applied social science, public po…
Welfare Rights and Social Policy
Welfare Rights and Social Policy provides an introduction to social policy through a discussion of welfare rights, which are explored in historical, comparative and critical context. At a time when the cause of human rights is high on the global political agendathe authorasks why the status of welfare rights as an element of human rights remains ambiguous. Rights to social security, employment, housing, education, health and social care are criti…
The translation of needs into rights: Reconceptualising social citizenship as a global phenomenon
The article proceeds from the contention that rights are socially constructed; that social rights are constructed through the naming and claiming of needs; and that social citizenship provides the context for the realisation of such rights. It is argued that needs precede rights, but both are framed within two intersecting dimensions: sociality (the competing meanings that attach to social interdependency) and negotiation (the dynamics of the cla…
The Ethical Deficit of the United Kingdom's Proposed Universal Credit: Pimping the Precariat
Universal Credit is a proposed means‐tested cash benefit scheme in the UK that will serve, inter alia , to top‐up the wages of low‐paid workers. This article will argue first, that the moral justification for the scheme that is offered by the UK government is specious; second that the reconfiguration of existing wage top‐ups may be counterproductive and will in any event do little, if anything, to promote the work ethic; third, that the new schem…
Welcome relief or indecent subsidy? The implications of wage top-up schemes
A key policy response to the downward pressure on wages of the lowest-paid workers in the developed economies of the capitalist world has been the introduction of meanstested cash transfer schemes by which to top up low wages. Findings from a study of the experiences of the beneficiaries of a particular scheme (the United Kingdom’s Working Tax Credit) suggest that, although schemes may serve to relieve the poverty of low-paid workers and their fa…
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The Ethics of Migrant Welfare
International migration poses a dilemma for capitalist welfare states. This paper considers the ethical dimensions of that dilemma. It begins by addressing two questions associated with the provision of social rights for migrants: first, the extent to which differential forms of social citizenship may be associated with processes of civic stratification; second, the ambiguous nature of the economic, social and cultural rights components of the in…
Welfare – By Mary Daly
Understanding human need
Human need is a central but contested concept in social policy and the social sciences. This book provides an accessible overview of the subject using concepts from many disciplines. It presents a unique integrative model that shows how the main approaches may be reflected in social policy goals. The author engages with recent debates which advance our understanding of human need, including human wellbeing and 'happiness'; poverty, social exclusi…
Critiquing capabilities: The distractions of a beguiling concept
The article provides a critique of the concept of `capabilities', initially advanced by Amartya Sen. The concept has directly influenced the workings of both the international United Nations Development Programme and the UK's domestic Equality and Human Rights Commission. It is argued that it is essentially a liberal-individualist concept. Despite its attractions — which the article acknowledges — the `capability approach' obscures or neglects th…
Welfare and Well‐being: Social Value in Public Policy ‐ by Bill Jordan, Well‐being: In Search of a Good Life? ‐ by Beverley A. Searle and Well‐being in Developing Countries: From Theory to Research ‐ …
Marginalization, Outsiders
Marginalization is a metaphor that refers to processes by which individuals or groups are kept at or pushed beyond the edges of society. The term outsiders may be used to refer to those individuals or groups who are marginalized
Welfare Dependency and Welfare Underuse
Welfare dependency is a term that refers to the use that people make of publicly provided cash benefits (sometimes called cash transfers) or human services. Welfare underuse is the term applied when people who are entitled to publicly provided benefits and services fail to take them up
Poor parents? The realities of work–life balance in a low-income neighbourhood
The article explores the work–life balance policy agenda as it has emerged in post-industrial societies, such as the UK, and it reports on a small-scale study of the experiences and expectations of work–life balance in a low-income inner-London neighbourhood. From the study, certain general issues are identified relating to the inconsistency of employers’ practices and the currently fragmented nature of childcare provision. And certain issues of …
Social Policy and Human Rights: Re-thinking the Engagement
It is argued that the encompassing concept of welfare rights that is contained within the Social Policy literature – and which has developed from TH Marshall's distinction between civil and political rights on the one hand and social or welfare rights on the other – provides a clearer and more explicit basis for an international call for the progressive development of social policies than, for example, the human rights approach to poverty reducti…
Complaints procedures and individual redress: A note on research in progress
This isn't very typical I'm afraid’: Observing community care complaints procedures
The new complaints procedures which local authority social services departments have been required to introduce represent an important mechanism for managing the change of culture associated with recent community care reforms. They also represent a new genre in mechanisms of redress for welfare recipients. This paper reports the findings of a study which has observed considerable diversity in the ways in which local authorities are interpreting t…
Critiquing capabilities: The distractions of a beguiling concept
The article provides a critique of the concept of `capabilities', initially advanced by Amartya Sen. The concept has directly influenced the workings of both the international United Nations Development Programme and the UK's domestic Equality and Human Rights Commission. It is argued that it is essentially a liberal-individualist concept. Despite its attractions — which the article acknowledges — the `capability approach' obscures or neglects th…
Risk and the welfare state
The British welfare state developed as a state‐centred response to the problem of handling the risks encountered in a typical life‐course. The influential work of Giddens and others implies that the traditional welfare state is under attack from two directions: a changing international politi co‐economic environment limits the freedom of national governments to pursue independent policies involving relatively high taxation to finance social spend…
The ethics of welfare-to-work
English This article explores the shifting ethical foundations of the welfare-to-work or ‘workfare’ state within the richer capitalist economies of the world. It provides a discussion of the historical context; a critical analysis of competing moral discourses and ethical concepts of responsibility; and, based on this, a heuristic taxonomy of different approaches to welfare-to-work. It concludes with a critique of the dominant approaches to welfa…
Developing capabilities and rights in welfare-to-work policies
The article, having characterised present European work–welfare policies in terms of a process of re-commodification, considers the consequences both from a capabilities and a rights perspective. Drawing on recent empirical research it seeks to bring these two perspectives together in order to illustrate an alternative ‘life-first’ approach to work–welfare policy, an approach that would reach beyond both work-first and human capital approaches an…
Re-conceptualising Welfare-To-Work for People with Multiple Problems and Needs
One of the acknowledged limitations of British welfare-to-work policies has been that they do not necessarily succeed in assisting people with multiple problems and needs. This article will first examine conflicting aspects of welfare-to-work policies and the conflict between welfare-to-work and the concept of work-life balance, particularly as this may apply to people whose lives are especially difficult. Secondly, the article reports on the gen…
The Ethical Deficit of the United Kingdom's Proposed Universal Credit: Pimping the Precariat
Universal Credit is a proposed means‐tested cash benefit scheme in the UK that will serve, inter alia , to top‐up the wages of low‐paid workers. This article will argue first, that the moral justification for the scheme that is offered by the UK government is specious; second that the reconfiguration of existing wage top‐ups may be counterproductive and will in any event do little, if anything, to promote the work ethic; third, that the new schem…
Social Policy and Human Rights: Re-thinking the Engagement
It is argued that the encompassing concept of welfare rights that is contained within the Social Policy literature – and which has developed from TH Marshall's distinction between civil and political rights on the one hand and social or welfare rights on the other – provides a clearer and more explicit basis for an international call for the progressive development of social policies than, for example, the human rights approach to poverty reducti…
The Third Way and Social Welfare: The Myth of Post‐emotionalism
The “passive” welfare state was accused of promoting a dependency culture. “Active” welfare and the “what works?” approach of Britain's New Labour government is allegedly implicated in an age of post‐emotionalism, in which people are largely indifferent to the needs of others and committed primarily to their personal well‐being. This article, first, seeks to extend recent debates about agency and motivation in social policy and relate them to the…
The translation of needs into rights: Reconceptualising social citizenship as a global phenomenon
The article proceeds from the contention that rights are socially constructed; that social rights are constructed through the naming and claiming of needs; and that social citizenship provides the context for the realisation of such rights. It is argued that needs precede rights, but both are framed within two intersecting dimensions: sociality (the competing meanings that attach to social interdependency) and negotiation (the dynamics of the cla…
Green Citizenship
This paper first describes the influence that environmentalism and ecologism have had upon thinking about citizenship before, second, moving on to discuss conventional models of citizenship and potential models of Green citizenship. The discussion focuses on the competing moral discourses that inform our understanding of citizenship and concludes by arguing in favour of an eco‐socialist citizenship model that would embrace, on the one hand, an et…
Unravelling citizenship: The significance of social security benefit fraud
This article discusses the possibility that social security benefit fraud is intelligible as an unravelling of the rights and responsibilities of welfare citizenship. It recounts the findings of a study of the attitudes and moti vations of people engaged in individual benefit fraud, including the dominant discourses engaged in by respondents, their approach to work and their conceptions of citizenship. These are analysed in relation to age, gende…
Muslim Perspectives on Welfare
This article is concerned in part to inform the quest for an understanding of the perceptions which Muslim minorities have of Western welfare state provision, but its wider purpose is to explore the essence and the potential of the Islamic welfare state. Heuristic models constructed by social policy academics have provided insights into the influences of religion upon different kinds of welfare state, but no model exists by which specifically to …
Poverty discourse and the disempowerment of the poor
Tipping the Balance: The Problematic Nature of Work-Life Balance in a Low-Income Neighbourhood
The article attempts to locate the contested notion of work-life balance within the context of global trends and recent policy developments. It describes a small-scale qualitative study of work-life balance as it is experienced within a low-income neighbourhood in the UK. The study findings are used to inform reflections on the powerlessness experienced by many working parents seeking to accommodate family life with paid employment; and on the na…
Popular discourse and the ethical deficiency of 'Third Way' conceptions of citizenship
The article is in three parts. The first explores the connections and commonalities between different empirical investigations relating to popular discourses of citizenship and argues that these are constituted through the complex combination of overlapping discursive moral repertoires. The second part considers the discursive moral repertoires that constitute discourses of citizenship within the politics of the ‘Third Way’ project—as it is espou…
Manageable Discord: Fraud and Resistance in the Social Security System
This article presents findings from a study of the attitudes and beliefs of social security claimants engaged in benefit fraud. The basis for a taxonomy of such claimants is outlined, drawing upon concepts of reflexivity and anxiety. This is compared and contrasted with other theoretically‐drawn taxonomies, one relating to workplace crime, the other to the consumption of social care services. Finally, the article considers whether benefit fraud i…
Welcome relief or indecent subsidy? The implications of wage top-up schemes
A key policy response to the downward pressure on wages of the lowest-paid workers in the developed economies of the capitalist world has been the introduction of meanstested cash transfer schemes by which to top up low wages. Findings from a study of the experiences of the beneficiaries of a particular scheme (the United Kingdom’s Working Tax Credit) suggest that, although schemes may serve to relieve the poverty of low-paid workers and their fa…
Popular paradigms and welfare values
Drawing on the results of a recently completed ESRC research project, this article advances three principal arguments. First, unprecedented social polarization in Britain and other liberal democracies in the last quarter of the 20th century now constitute poverty and wealth as socially constructed forms of exclusion from the realm of 'ordinary' citizenship. Second, that as the welfare state gives way to what has been characterized as the 'risk so…
Statutory Sick Pay and the Control of Sickness Absence
The shift from national insurance to employer administered, state funded Statutory Sick Pay has been discussed in terms of the privatisation of social security and its impact upon the living standards of sick-absent employees. This paper reports a survey of employers' perceptions of the change. Many employers have seen the introduction of the scheme as an opportunity to extend control of sickness absence among workers. The new regime may be bette…
The Ethics of Migrant Welfare
International migration poses a dilemma for capitalist welfare states. This paper considers the ethical dimensions of that dilemma. It begins by addressing two questions associated with the provision of social rights for migrants: first, the extent to which differential forms of social citizenship may be associated with processes of civic stratification; second, the ambiguous nature of the economic, social and cultural rights components of the in…
From altruism to sociality: A switch in perception
The article critically reviews concepts and uses of the term altruism in relation to the emergence of the capitalist welfare state. It argues that altruism may be regarded as a fetishized representation of ‘sociality’ and that notions of altruism tend to obscure or distort understandings of the essential social interdependence that characterises humanity as a species. The article reaches back to anthropological evidence, to religious and philosop…
A Radical Humanist Approach to Social Welfare
This conceptual paper presents a radical humanist framing of the relationship between human needs and social welfare. It draws and develops its conceptualisation of radical humanism from the early philosophical writings of Marx in which he identified the radical constitutive needs of the human species. It seeks to translate the definitive characteristics of humanity's ‘species being’ – namely consciousness, ‘work’, sociality and historical develo…
Work-Family Challenges for Low-Income Parents and Their Children
Welfare – By Mary Daly
Welfare and Well‐being: Social Value in Public Policy ‐ by Bill Jordan, Well‐being: In Search of a Good Life? ‐ by Beverley A. Searle and Well‐being in Developing Countries: From Theory to Research ‐ …
Some Epidemiological Aspects of Chronic Endemic Dental Fluorosis
Some Epidemiological Aspects of Chronic Endemic Dental Fluorosis H. Trendley Dean, and Elias Elvove CopyRight*Read before the Epidemiology Section of the American Public Health Association at the Sixty-fourth Annual Meeting in Milwaukee, Wis., October 7, 1935. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.26.6.567 Published Online: August 29, 2011
Production of Mottled Enamel Halted by a Change in Common Water Supply
Production of Mottled Enamel Halted by a Change in Common Water Supply H. Trendley Dean, and Frederick S. McKay CopyRight*Read before the Epidemiology Section of the American Public Health Association at the Sixty-seventh Annual Meeting in Kansas City, Mo., October 25, 1938. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.29.6.590 Published Online: August 29, 2011
Post-War Implications of Fluorine and Dental Health: Epidemiological Aspects
Post-War Implications of Fluorine and Dental Health Epidemiological Aspects H. Trendley Dean CopyRight*Presented before the Oral Health Group of the American Public Health Association at the Seventy-second Annual Meeting in New York, N. Y., October 14, 1943. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.34.2.133 Published Online: August 29, 2011
Vincent's Infection—A Wartime Disease: Preliminary Considerations on the Epidemiology of Ulcerative Gingivostomatitis
Vincent's Infection—A Wartime Disease Preliminary Considerations on the Epidemiology of Ulcerative Gingivostomatitis * H. Trendley Dean, and Dennis E. Singleton, Jr. CopyRight*Presented before the Dental Health Section of the American Public Health Association at the Seventy-third Annual Meeting in New York, N. Y., October 5, 1944. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.35.5.433 Published Online: August 29, 2011
Some Reflections on the Epidemiology of Fluorine and Dental Health
Some Reflections on the Epidemiology of Fluorine and Dental Health H. Trendley Dean CopyRight*Presented before a Joint Session of the American School Health Association, the Conference for Health Council Work and the Dental Health, Public Health Education, and Public Health Nursing Sections of the American Public Health Association at the Eightieth Annual Meeting in Cleveland, Ohio, October 23, 1952. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.43.6_Pt_1.704 Pub…
How Effective Is Fluoridation
Disciplinary partitioning and the privatisation of social security
Inequality and Occupational Sick Pay
This article presents a critical commentary upon a research report on Occupational Sick Pay Schemes recently commissioned and published by the Department of Social Security. The authors argue that evidence of increasingly widespread occupational provision conceals a growing disparity between the conditions of service enjoyed by higher paid ‘core’ workers and those endured by more vulnerable ‘peripheral’ workers
Statutory Sick Pay and the Control of Sickness Absence
The shift from national insurance to employer administered, state funded Statutory Sick Pay has been discussed in terms of the privatisation of social security and its impact upon the living standards of sick-absent employees. This paper reports a survey of employers' perceptions of the change. Many employers have seen the introduction of the scheme as an opportunity to extend control of sickness absence among workers. The new regime may be bette…
Poverty discourse and the disempowerment of the poor
Recreating the void: The November 1993 Budget
Unravelling citizenship: The significance of social security benefit fraud
This article discusses the possibility that social security benefit fraud is intelligible as an unravelling of the rights and responsibilities of welfare citizenship. It recounts the findings of a study of the attitudes and moti vations of people engaged in individual benefit fraud, including the dominant discourses engaged in by respondents, their approach to work and their conceptions of citizenship. These are analysed in relation to age, gende…
Manageable Discord: Fraud and Resistance in the Social Security System
This article presents findings from a study of the attitudes and beliefs of social security claimants engaged in benefit fraud. The basis for a taxonomy of such claimants is outlined, drawing upon concepts of reflexivity and anxiety. This is compared and contrasted with other theoretically‐drawn taxonomies, one relating to workplace crime, the other to the consumption of social care services. Finally, the article considers whether benefit fraud i…
Muslim Perspectives on Welfare
This article is concerned in part to inform the quest for an understanding of the perceptions which Muslim minorities have of Western welfare state provision, but its wider purpose is to explore the essence and the potential of the Islamic welfare state. Heuristic models constructed by social policy academics have provided insights into the influences of religion upon different kinds of welfare state, but no model exists by which specifically to …
Popular paradigms and welfare values
Drawing on the results of a recently completed ESRC research project, this article advances three principal arguments. First, unprecedented social polarization in Britain and other liberal democracies in the last quarter of the 20th century now constitute poverty and wealth as socially constructed forms of exclusion from the realm of 'ordinary' citizenship. Second, that as the welfare state gives way to what has been characterized as the 'risk so…
Poverty, Riches and Social Citizenship
At a time when the gap between rich and poor has been increasing, Poverty, Riches and Social Citizenship provides an accessible introduction to current debates about inequality, exclusion and the nature of citizenship, while also presenting an innovative exploration of popular beliefs and values in Britain. The authors develop a series of conceptual models by which to understand the competing traditions which have informed ideas about citizenship…
Risk and the welfare state
The British welfare state developed as a state‐centred response to the problem of handling the risks encountered in a typical life‐course. The influential work of Giddens and others implies that the traditional welfare state is under attack from two directions: a changing international politi co‐economic environment limits the freedom of national governments to pursue independent policies involving relatively high taxation to finance social spend…
Social Policy and the Body: Transitions in Corporeal Discourse
The opening chapters suggest that transitions in welfare capitalism can be understood in terms of shifts in dominant 'corporeal' discourses. The body as a focus for power and resistance in differing w
Social rights and social resistance: Opportunism, anarchism and the welfare state
This conceptually oriented paper adopts a critical perspective on the question of social rights and asks whether, in contemporary circumstances, claims to social welfare based on rights can provide a meaningful basis for social resistance to poverty or oppression. Past approaches to the question of rights as a means of resistance are characterised as either opportunistic or anarchistic. Opportunistic approaches give rise to ameliorative compromis…
The future of social security provision: Beyond the workfare state
Working parenthood and parental obligation
This article reports upon aspects of a small-scale qualitative study of lowincome working families. The study was conducted in the context of recent policy changes in Britain that are intended to promote labour force participation by low-income parents, especially mothers. It is argued that while popular opinion is generally supportive of mothers taking paid employment, some deep-rooted ambivalence remains. Mothers in lowincome families can exper…
Green Citizenship
This paper first describes the influence that environmentalism and ecologism have had upon thinking about citizenship before, second, moving on to discuss conventional models of citizenship and potential models of Green citizenship. The discussion focuses on the competing moral discourses that inform our understanding of citizenship and concludes by arguing in favour of an eco‐socialist citizenship model that would embrace, on the one hand, an et…
Insecure Families and Low-Paying Labour Markets: Comments on the British Experience
There has been a raft of policy changes in the UK that are intended to help low-income families engage with the labour market. Drawing in part upon the findings of a small-scale qualitative study of the experiences of low-income working families, this article infers that the secular trend to working parenthood may, as matters stand, be experienced rather differently by secure middle-class families than by poor families. It may be that the former …
Business versus Families: Whose Side is New Labour on
In its proposals for achieving a better ‘work–life balance’ for Britain's working families, the New Labour government is also seeking to balance the interests of business against the needs of families. This article argues that the economic policy ‘trilemma’ resulting from economic globalisation is mirrored in a parallel family policy trilemma, with particular consequences for the poorest families. Drawing upon this argument and, partly, upon illu…
Ready to work? Understanding the experiences of people with multiple problems and needs
The focus of current government policy on maximising labour market participation among those of working age is known to have particular implications for people with multiple problems and needs. This article reports preliminary findings from a study based on in-depth interviews with 50 people with experience of not only unemployment, but several additional problems, such as homelessness, ill-health or disability, substance abuse, the criminal just…
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