Reinventing the Welfare State

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Reinventing the Welfare State
Ursula Huws
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 224pg
20 Sep 2020 UK
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9780745341842
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The Covid-19 pandemic has tragically exposed how today' s welfare state cannot properly protect its citizens. Despite the valiant efforts of public sector workers, from under-resourced hospitals to a shortage of housing and affordable social care, the pandemic has shown how decades of neglect has caused hundreds to die. In this bold new book, leading policy analyst Ursula Huws shows how we can create a welfare state that is fair, affordable, and offers security for all. Huws focuses on some of the key issues of our time - the gig economy, universal, free healthcare, and social care, to criticize the current state of welfare provision. Drawing on a lifetime of research on these topics, she clearly explains why we need to radically rethink how it could change. With positivity and rigor, she proposes new and original policy ideas, including critical discussions of Universal Basic Income and new legislation for universal workers' rights. She also outlines a ' digital welfare state' for the 21st century. This would involve a repurposing of online platform technologies under public control to modernize and expand public services, and improve accessibility.
' A searing critique of how welfare cuts have hit the most vulnerable hardest - and a compelling account of how we can rebuild social security with new tech. A must read for policymakers, campaigners and trade unionists. ' -- Frances O' Grady, General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress ' With remarkable precision, Ursula Huws provides a chilling account of how the British welfare state has been turned upside down, no longer a mechanism for reversing inequality but for enhancing the wealth of the super-rich. She then outlines a new welfare agenda, detailing the infrastructures necessary to enhance the lives of carers and cared for alike, as well as now essential for global sustainability overall. Not to be missed!' -- Lynne Segal (from the Care Collective)
Ursula Huws is Professor of Labor and Globalization at the University of Hertfordshire. Her most recent book is Labour in Contemporary Capitalism: What Next? (2019). She has been carrying out pioneering research on the economic and social impacts of technological change, the restructuring of employment and the changing international division of labour, for many years. She lectures, advises policy-makers, and has written numerous books.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780745341842
Published: 20 Sep 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Pluto Press
Publisher: Pluto Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 224

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