Based on incisive analyses of economic globalization, class, politics, and bureaucracy, The Assault on Social Policy examines the ordinary speech used to make poverty and extreme inequality seem acceptable, the corporate strategies co-opting the distribution of wealth and other resources, and the negative effect of these efforts on our more vulnerable citizens, such as those with disabilities, incarcerated individuals, children, and the elderly. This second edition incorporates new research on the hotly contested policies dealing with poverty, welfare, disability, social security, and health care. It also takes stock of the ongoing effects of globalization and adds a chapter on education.
Price: $34.00
Pages: 264
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Publication Date:
01 July 2014
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780231160070
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work
The Assault on Social Policy depicts how the welfare state has succumbed to the private sector and is being increasingly dismantled by capitalism and return-on-investment principles. When such issues of poverty, health, disabilities, school failure, and immigration are juxtaposed against this backdrop, penetrating analyses of root causes emerge.
William Roth is a Vincent O’Leary Professor Emeritus at the State University of New York at Albany, where he established and directed the Center for Computing and Disability. He has published a memoir, Movement: A Memoir of Disability, Cancer, and the Holocaust, among other books.
Susan J. Peters is associate professor emeritus at Michigan State University. Among her publications, her book Inclusive Education: Achieving Education for All by Including Those with Disabilities and Special Education Needs has been translated into twelve languages.
Foreword by Senator Bernie Sanders
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Policy
2. Corporations
3. Poverty
4. Welfare
5. Disability
6. Social Security
7. Health
8. Children
9. Education
10. Outsiders
11. Democratic Change
Notes
Index
