Welfare rights and responsibilities: Contesting social citizenship

Description

This text focuses on the twin themes of welfare reform and citizenship. Specifically it explores three issues central to citizenship's social element: provision, conditionality (the link between welfare rights and responsibilities), and membership. It offers an overview of contemporary debates about the contested concepts of citizenship and welfare, adds an empirical dimension to the debates, and allows the (presently marginalized) voices of welfare service users to become valued in debates about the extent of social citizenship and the reform of the welfare state.

Peter Dwyer is a Lecturer in Social Policy, in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds.

"... adds a fresh imension to what can be a dry, though important topic". Disability & Society vol 16 no. 5. "... a very accessible introduction to a variety of peropectives on social welfare citizenship..." Work, Employment & Society. Vol 15/4-2001 "This is an interesting book. Dwyer offers a very accessible introduction to a variety of perspectives on social welfare citizenship." Young People Now issue 148. "... deserves a wider audience than most academic texts." SCOLAG Legal Journal