Philip Mendes

This represents a substantial revision of Philip Mendes's successful textbook Australia's Welfare Wars, in which the author explains - and questions - many of the values and assumptions that underpin contemporary social welfare policies. In particular, the book is critical of the neoliberal or economic rationalist ideas that now dominate the welfare debates in Australia and overseas, and instead demonstrates and reaffirms the ongoing relevance of social-democratic and welfare-state ideals.

Pub Date: 2008 ISBN: PAPER:    0-86840-991-X    978-0-86840-991-7 Price: Paper: $39.00s Subject Listing: Sociology, Economics, Australia Bibliographic information: 320 pp., 6 x 9 in. Distributed for: UNSW Press Territorial rights: North American rights only