Reviews

Books reviewed:
John Ferris, Environmental Pressure Groups in Transition
John Ferris, Social Policy and the Environment
George Giacinto Giarchi, Equity and Efficiency Policy in Community Care: Needs, Service Productivities, Efficiencies and their Implications
George Giacinto Giarchi, Caring for Older People: An Assessment of Community Care in the 1990s
Robert Leaper, Comparing Social Welfare Systems in Nordic Europe and France     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this aticle:
Images of Welfare By PETER GOLDING AND SUE MIDDLETON.
Professional Power and Social Welfare By PAUL WILDING.
The Strategy of Equality: Redistribution and the Social Services By JULIAN LE GRAND.
The Inspector General: Sir Jeremiah Fitzpatrick and Social Reform 1783–1802 By OLIVER MACDONAGH.
The Home Office 1848–1914: From Clerks to Bureaucrats By JILL PELLEW.
Victorian Values: Secularism and the Size of Families By J. A. BANKS.
Children, School and Society in Nineteenth Century England By ANNE DIGBY AND PETER SEARBY (eds)
English Education, Social Change and War, 1911–20 By GEOFFREY SHERINGTON.
The Administrative "Revolution" in Whitehall By G. K. FRY.
Quangos in Britain: Government and the Networks of Public Policy Making By ANTHONY BARKER (ed.)
Social Welfare Law By DAVID PEARL AND KEVIN GRAY.
The Abuse of Power: Civil Liberties in the United Kingdom By PATRICIA HEWITT.
Disability: Legislation and Practice By DUNCAN GUTHRIE (ed.)
Current Trends in British Gerontology By REX TAYLOR AND ANNE GILMORE.
Retirement Policy: The Next 50 Years By MICHAEL FOGARTY (ed.)
The Inner City in Context By PETER HALL (ed.)
The Uses of Social Research: Social Investigation in Public Policy Making By MARTIN BULMER.
Sociology and Social Research By GEOFF PAYNE et al.
Economic Efficiency and Social Welfare By E. J. MISHAN.
Values in Social Policy: Nine Contradictions By JEAN HARDY.     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this aticle: The Political Economy of the Welfare State By THOMAS WILSON AND DOROTHY J. WILSON. Corporatism and Welfare By ALAN CAWSON. Whither State Welfare? Policy and Implementation in the Personal Social Services 1979–80. By ADRIAN WEBB AND GERALD WISTOW. Culture of the Social Services By ANDREW KAKABADSE. Public Participation in Local Services By N. BOADEN et al. Don't Mourn for me … Organise: The Social and Political Uses of Voluntary Organisations By DAVID SCOTT. Economics and Social Policy By ALAN GORDON. Europe Against Poverty — The European Poverty Programme 1975–80 By JANE DENNETT et al. Health Policy in Britain By CHRISTOPHER HAM. Policy Making and Planning in the Health Sector By KENNETH LEE AND ANNE MILLS. Industrial Relations and Health Services By A. S. SETHI AND S. J. DIMMOCK (eds.) The Economics of Outpatient Clinic Location: the paediatrics case By J. G. CULLIS, S. HEASELL AND S. WELLER. The Economics of Unemployment in Britain By JOHN GREEDY (ed.) Workless By DENNIS MARSDEN. Discrimination and Disadvantage in Employment: The Experience of Black Workers By P. BRAHAM, E. RHODES AND M. PEARN (eds.) Unqualified and Underemployed: Handicapped Young People and the Labour Market By ALAN WALKER. Family Care of the Handicapped Elderly: Who Pays? By MURIEL NISSEL AND LUCY BONNERJEA. Capitalism and the Construction of Old Age By CHRIS PHILLIPSON. Policy Making for the Mentally Handicapped By GREGORY S. DONGES.     

Reviews

Books reviewed:
P. Dwyer, Welfare Rights and Responsibilities: Contesting Social Citizenship
C. Pierson and F. G. Castles (eds), The Welfare State Reader
P. Spicker, The Welfare State: A General Theory
Suzanne Fitzpatrick, Young Homeless People     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this aticle:
Despite the Welfare State By MURIEL BROWN AND NICOLA MADGE.
Disadvantage and Education By Jo MORTIMORE AND TESSA BLACKSTONE.
Housing Inequality and Deprivation By ALAN MURIE.
Families in Britain By R. N. RAPOPORT, M. P. FOGARTY & R. RAPOPORT (EDS.)
Sex Differences in Britain Today By IVAN REID & EILEEN WORMALD (EDS.)
Gender, Class and Education By STEPHEN WALKER & LEN BARTON (EDS.)
Women's Welfare & Women's Rights By JANE LEWIS (ED).
Community Care: The Family, the State and Social Policy By ALAN WALKER (ED).
Working with People By ROBERT J. MAXWELL AND VICTOR MORRISON (EDS).
Alternative Unemployment: Special Employment Measures in Britain By DAVID METCALF.     

REVIEW ARTICLES

Book Reviewed in this article
The Impact of Social Policy BY VIC GEORGE AND PAUL WILDING Routledge and Kegan Paul, London
Invitation on Social Work by B. Jordan The Political Dimensions of social Work by B. Jordan and N. Parton
The Political Dimensions of Social Work By B. JORDAN and N. PARTON
The Welfare State in Crisis: Social Thought and Social Change By RAMESH MISHRA
Contradictions of the Welfare State By CLAW OFFE
Social Planning: A Strategy for Socialist Welfare By ALAN WALKER
Thomas Chalmers and the Godly Commonwealth By STEWARTJ. BROWN     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this aticle: States of Welfare: Comparative Analysis in Social Policy By Joan Higgins Social Theory and Social Welfare By Peter Taylor -Gooby and Jennifer Dale . Towards Socialist Welfare Work By S. Bolger et al. The Right to Welfare and Other Essays By T. H. Marshall . Tribunal Representation: The Role of Advice and Advocacy Services By Roger Lawrence . Social Measurement and Social Indicators: Issues of Policy and Theory By Michael Carley . Automatic Poverty By Bill Jordan . Wealth, Income and Inequality (Second edition) By A. B. Atkinson (ed.). Voluntary Social Services By Norman Johnson . Voluntary and Statutory Collaboration: Rhetoric or Reality? By Diana Leat , Gerry Smolka , Judith Unell . Social Services Area Teams By Phyllida Parsloe . Intake Teams By Joanna Buckle . Occupational Survival: The Case of the Local Authority Social Worker By Carole Satyamurti . Social Work and General Medical Practice: Collaboration or Conflict? By June Huntingdon . Going Local: Neighbourhood Social Services By Roger Hadley and Morag Mc Grath (ed.). Community Groups in Action: Case Studies and Analysis By Hugh Butcher et al. The Impact of Ageing: Strategies for care By David Hobman (ed.). Old People's Homes and the Production of Welfare By Bleddyn Davies and Martin Knapp Old Age Homes By Roger Clough .     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this aticle: Public Choice By DENNIS C. MUELLER. Caring for Strangers By DAVID WATSON. Planning for Welfare: Social Policy and the Expenditure Process By TIMOTHY A. BOOTH. Law, Justice and Social Policy By ROSALIND BROOKE. The Economics of Health By JOHN G. CULLIS & PETER A. WEST. Health in Danger: The Crisis in the N.H.S. By DAVID WIDGERY. Overseas Doctors in the National Health Service By DAVID J. SMITH. Community Hospitals and Rural Accessibility By R.M. HAYNES & C.G. BENTHAM. Methods of Financing Social Security: Their Economic and Social Effects By E.M. MURPHY et al. Financial Aid Through Social Work By MICHAEL P. JACKSON AND B. MICHAEL VALENCIA. Social Work and Money By MICHAEL HILL AND PETER LAING. Power, Authority and Responsibility in Social Services: Social Work in Area Teams By MALCOLM PAYNE. Allocating The Home Help Services By NEIL HOWELL, DUNCAN BOLDY, BARRY SMITH. Care of the Elderly Mentally Infirm By BARBARA GRAY & BERNARD ISAACS. Who Needs Housing? By JANE DARKE & ROY DARKE. Managing Difficult Tenants By GERRY POPPLESTONE & CHRIS PARIS. The British New Towns: A Programme without a Policy By MERYL ALDRIDCE.     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this aticle: Social Welfare: Why and How? By NOEL TIMMS (ED.) The Year Book of Social Policy in Britain, 1979 By MURIEL BROWN & SALLY BALDWIN (EDS) The Irish Social Services By JOHN CURRY. Rational Techniques in Policy Analysis By MICHAEL CARLEY. Social Research and Royal Commissions By MARTIN BULMER (ed.) Can Social Work Survive? By COLIN BREWER & JUNE LAIT. The Future of the Prison System By ROY D. KING & ROD MORGAN. Class Inequality and Health Care: the Origins and Impact of The National Health Service By VIVIENNE WALTERS. Principles in Economic Appraisal in Health Care By M.F. DRUMMOND. Choices for Health Care By G.H. MOONEY, E.M. RUSSELL & R.D. WEIR. Health Care Priorities and Management By GWYN BEVAN et al. How many patients? A study of list size in general practice By J.R. BUTLER. Teamwork for Preventive Care By NIGEL BRUCE. Child Support in the European Community By JONATHON BRADSHAW & DAVID PIACHAUD. Education and the Social Condition By HAROLD SILVER. The Reorganisation of Seconary Education By PHILIP H. JAMES. Compensation for Incapacity: a Study of Law and Social Change in New Zealand and Australia By GEOFFREY PALMER.     

Reviews

Books reviewed:
George Giacinto Giarchi, Caring for Older Europeans: Comparative Studies in 29 Countries
Alan Walker and Tony Maltby, Ageing Europe
Alan Walker and Lorna Warren, Changing Services for Older People: the Neighbourhood Support Unit Innovation
Paul Daniel and John Ivatts, Children and Social Policy
Malcolm Hill and Kay Tisdall, Children and Society     

REVIEW ARTICLES

Book review in this Articles:
Negotiating Family Responsibilities By JANET FINCH & JENNIFER MASON
Ageing and Economic Welfare By PAUL JOHNSON & JANE FALKINGHAM
Time for Retirement: Comparative Studies of Early Exit from the Labour Force By MARTIN KOHLI, MARTIN REIN, ANNE-MARIE GUILLEMARD & HERMAN VAN GUNSTEREN (eds.)
Empowering the Elderly: Direct Consumer Funding of Care Services By WILLIAM LAING
Private Residential Care: the Admission Process and Reactions of the Public Sector By JUDITH PHILLIPS
The Abuse of Elderly People: a Handbook for Professionals By JACKI PRITCHARD
Carers: Research and Practice By JULIA TWIGG (ed.)
The Coming of Age in Europe SALLY GREENGROSS and others
When I'm Sixty-Four By SALLY HERNE
Social Policy in Europe: Latest Evolution and Perspectives for the Future By B. GREVE (ed.)
Poverty and the Adequacy of Social Security in the EC: A Comparative Analysis By H. DELEECK, K. VAN DEN BOSCH & L. DE LATHOUWER     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this aticle:
Using the Social Sciences by A. B. CHERNS.
The Execution Process Vol. 1. Implementation in a Bureaucracy Vol. 2. Control in a Bureaucracy by ANDREW DUNSIRE.
The Reorganisation of British Local Government by JOHN DEARLOVE.
Introducing Social Policy by D. C. MARSH (ed.)
Over-Ruled on Welfare by RALPH HARRIS AND ARTHUR SELDON.
The Political Economy of the Welfare State by IAN GOUGH.
Economic Welfare in the Soviet Union by ALASTAIR MCAULEY.
The Welfare State in Sweden by DOROTHY WILSON.
Youth in Contemporary Society by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY (ed.)
Housing Improvement and Social Inequality by PAUL N. BALCHIN.
Not Much Improvement: Urban Renewal Policy in Birmingham by CHRIS PARIS AND BOB BLACKABY.
Jobs and Community Action by G. CRAIG, M. MAYO AND N. SHARMAN (EDS.)
Unmet Needs and the Delivery of Care by PAUL CHAPMAN.
Welfare Law and Policy: Studies in Teaching, Practice and Research by MARTIN PARTINGTON AND JEFFREY JOWELL, (eds.).
Perspective on Legal Aid: a Comparative Survey by F. H. Zemans, (ed.)     

REVIEW ARTICLES

Book review in this Article Hard Times: The Prospects for European Social Policy By Peter Townsend Can the Welfare State Compete? By Alfred Pfaller, Ian Gough, and Goran Therborn Social Welfare in Socialist Countries By John Dixon and David Macarov Trapped in Poverty? By Bill Jordan, Simon James, Helen Kay and Marcus Redley Routledge Introduction to Social Administration in Britain by Muriel Brown and Sarah Payne Unwin Hyman The Politics of Local Government by Gerry Stoker Macmillan Public Policy under Thatcher By Stephen P. Savage and Lynton Robins Whom God Hath Joined Together: the Work of Marriage Guidance By Jane Lewis, David Clarke and David Morgan Prisoners' Children: What Are The Issues? By Roger Shaw Maternity Rights in Britain: Report on the Experience of Women and Employers By Susan McRae Policy Evaluating Health Services' Effectiveness By Anthony St Leger, Harold Schneiden and Joanna Is British Food Bad for You? By Vincent Marks Structures of Control in Health Management By Rob Flynn Alternative Medicine in Britain By Mike Saks Science, Ideology and the Media By Ronald Fletcher     

Writing the history of welfare

Social Reform in England 1780–1880 By JOHN ROACH.
Before the Welfare State: Social Administration in early industrial Britain By URSULA HENRIQUES.     

REVIEW ARTICLES

Social Work in an Enterprise Society. By Robert Pinker
The State of Welfare: The Welfare State in Britain since 1974. By John Hills
Health Psychology and Public Health by Richard A. Winnett, Abby C. King and David G. Altemann. Pergamon     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this aticle: Making Ends Meet By SCOTT KERR. Comparative Public Policy. The Politics of Social Choice in Europe and America By A. HEIDENHEIMER, H. HECLO AND C. TEICH ADAMS. In Place of Work: Policy and Provision for the Young Unemployed ROB FIDDY (ed) Government and Urban Poverty By JOAN HIGGINS, NICHOLAS DEAKIN, JOHN EDWARDS AND MALCOLM WICKS. Approaches to Welfare Edited by PHILIP BEAN AND STEWART MACPHERSON. From Policy to Practice By M. REIN. Charities in Britain — Conservatism or Change? By DAVID GERARD. The Creation of the British Personal Social Services 1962–74 By JOAN COOPER. Census 1981 National Report, Great Britain. Components of Welfare: Voluntary Organizations, Social Services and Politics in Two Local Authorities By STEPHEN HATCH AND IAN MOCROFT. Disability Income Part I: Industrial Injuries By JOAN C. BROWN. Planning for Priority Groups By HOWARD GLENNERSTER WITH NANCY KORMAN AND FRANCIS MARSLEN-WILSON. Children and Justice: Decision-Making in Children's Hearings and Juvenile Courts By STEWART ASQUITH.     

Review Article

Book Review in this Articles:
"The Welfare State and its Aftermath" Edited by S. N. EISENSTADT AND ORA AHIMEIR
Thinking About Social Thinking The Philosophy of the Social Sciences By ANTONY FLEW
The State: Authority and Autonomy By BILL JORDAN     

REVIEW ARTICLES

Book review in this Article
Hard Times: The Prospects for European Social Policy By Peter Townsend
Can the Welfare State Compete? By Alfred Pfaller, Ian Gough, and Goran Therborn
Social Welfare in Socialist Countries By John Dixon and David Macarov
Trapped in Poverty? By Bill Jordan, Simon James, Helen Kay and Marcus Redley Routledge
Introduction to Social Administration in Britain by Muriel Brown and Sarah Payne Unwin Hyman
The Politics of Local Government by Gerry Stoker Macmillan
Public Policy under Thatcher By Stephen P. Savage and Lynton Robins
Whom God Hath Joined Together: the Work of Marriage Guidance By Jane Lewis, David Clarke and David Morgan
Prisoners' Children: What Are The Issues? By Roger Shaw
Maternity Rights in Britain: Report on the Experience of Women and Employers By Susan McRae Policy
Evaluating Health Services' Effectiveness By Anthony St Leger, Harold Schneiden and Joanna
Is British Food Bad for You? By Vincent Marks
Structures of Control in Health Management By Rob Flynn
Alternative Medicine in Britain By Mike Saks
Science, Ideology and the Media By Ronald Fletcher     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this aticle:
National Health Insurance and the Medical Profession in Britain, 1913–1939 By NORMAN R. EDER.
Issues in Social Policy By KATHLEEN JONES, JOHN BROWN AND JONATHAN BRADSHAW
Youth Unemployment and State Intervention By TERESA L. REES & PAUL ATKINSON (EDS).
Urban Economic Development: New Roles and Relationships BY KEN YOUNG & CHARLIE MASON (EDS)
Inner City Policy: A Partnership with the Voluntary Sector BY GWYNDAF WILLIAMS
The Prerogative of Asylumdom: Social, Cultural and Administrative Aspects of the Institutional Treatment of the Insane in Nineteenth-Century Britain By D. J. MELLETT
The Crisis of the Old Poor Law in England 1795–1834 By PETER DUNKLEY
The Politics of Town Planning By GORDON CHERRY
The Future of Council Housing By JOHN ENGLISH (ed.)
Social Work 2000: The Future of Social Work in a Changing Society By RONALD G. WALTON
The Sociology of the Professions: Lawyers, Doctors and Others By ROBERT DINGWALL AND PHILIP LEWIS (EDS.)
The Home Office: Perspectives on Policy and Administration
Housing for the Elderly: Planning and Policy Formulation in Western Europe and North America By LEONARD HEUMANN AND DUNCAN BOLDY
Housing Policy and Practice By PETER MALPASS AND ALAN MURIE.
Special Transport Services for Elderly and Disabled People By J. M. BAILEY AND A. D. LAYZELL
Health Care Policy: A Political Economy Approach By THEODORE R. MARMOR AND JON B. CHRISTIANSON.
Contemporary Education Policy By JOHN AHIER AND MICHAEL FLUDE (EDS.)     

The "international turn" in social policy; understanding social security

Books reviewed:
Mary Dalyand Katharine Rake, Gender and the Welfare State
Kevin Farnsworth, Corporate Power and Social Policy in a Global Economy: British Welfare under the Influence
Steffen Mau, The Moral Economy of Welfare States: Britain and Germany Compared
Jane Millar ed., Understanding Social Security
Howard Glennerster, Understanding the Finance of Welfare: What Welfare Costs and How to Pay for It