TY  - BOOK
AU  - King,Desmond S.
TI  - In the name of liberalism: illiberal social policy in the USA and Britain 
SN  - 0198296290
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Public welfare
KW  - United States
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Liberalism
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Social policy
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; List of Figures; List of Tables; Abbreviations; Introduction; p. 1; Pt. I; Politics, Policy-Making, and Ideas; 1; Liberalism and Illiberal Social Policy; p. 7; 2; Liberal Democracy and Policy-Making: Knowledge and the Formation of Social Policy; p. 28; Pt. II; Liberal Unreason; 3; 'Cutting off the Worst': Voluntary Sterilisation in Britain in the 1930s; p. 64; 4; 'The Gravest Menace?': American Immigration Policy; p. 97; Pt. III; Liberal Amelioration and Collectivism; 5; 'Reconditioning the Unemployed': Work Camps in Britain; p. 155; 6; 'They have been given a chance': the US Civilian Conservation Corps; p. 180; Pt. IV; Liberal Contractualism; 7; 'Aroused like one from sleep': From New Poor Law to Contractual Workfare; p. 226; 8; 'A second chance, not a way of life': Welfare as Workfare in the USA; p. 258; Pt. V; Conclusions; 9; Future of Social Citizenship; p. 287; Bibliography; p. 309; Index; p. 331
N2  - "Why have British and North American governments adopted illiberal social policies during this century? In the Name of Liberalism investigates examples of social policy in Britain and the United States that conflict with liberal democratic ideals. The book examines the use of eugenic arguments in the 1920s and 1930s, the use of work camps in the 1930s as a response to mass unemployment, and the introduction of work-for-welfare programs since the 1980s."--BOOK JACKET
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