Austerity Policies Bad Ideas in Practice /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Rushton, Peter (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Donovan, Catherine (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Welfare state.; Economic sociology.; Social service .; Political sociology.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Politics of the Welfare State.; Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology.; Social Care.; Political Sociology.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.

This book takes up the problems of social policy, state intervention and support in the hard times of austerity introduced by the Coalition government 2010-15, and continued under the Conservative government today. At a time when the economy is growing and pay levels finally rising, the necessity fo...