Table Of Content

Contents List ARTICLES page Ray Forrest and Alan Murie: Transformation Through Tenure? The Early Purchasers of Council Houses 1968-1973 1 Simon James, Bill Jordan and Helen Kay: Poor People, Council Housing and the Right to Buy 27 Pete Alcock, Jane Shepherd, Gill Stewart and John Stewart: Welfare Rights Works into the 1990s—a Changing Agenda 41 Ernie Lightman and Allan Irving : Restructuring Canada’s Welfare State 65 David Stoesz and Howard Karger : The Corporatisation of the US Welfare State 157 Caroline Knowles : Afro Caribbeans and Schizophrenia: How Does Psychiatry Deal with Issues of Race, Culture and Ethnicity? 173 Rob Baggott: Looking Forward to the Past? The Politics of Public Health 191 Rob Flynn : Coping with Cutbacks and Managing Retrenchment in Health 215 Peter Saunders : Selectivity and Targeting in Income Support: the Australian Experience 299 Mel Bartley: Health and Labour Force Participation: ‘Stress’, Selection and the Reproduction Costs of Labour Power 327 Mark Liddiard and Susan Hutson: Homeless Young People and Runaways—Agency Definitions and Processes 365 Howard Glennerster, Anne Power and Tony Travers: A New Era for Social Policy: A New Enlightenment or a New Leviathan? 389 Stephen P. Jenkins: Poverty Measurement and the Within-Household Distribution: Agenda for Action 457 Chris Hamnett: A Nation of Inheritors ? Housing Inheritance, Wealth and Inequality in Britain 509 Eithne McLaughlin: Work and Welfare Benefits: Social Security, Employment and Unemployment in the 1990s 485 RESEARCH NOTES Phil Holmes, Mauricea Lynch and Ian Molho: An Econometric Analysis of the Growth in the Numbers Claiming Invalidity Benefit: An Overview 87 Sandra Hutton: Measuring Living Standards Using Existing National Data Sets 237 REVIEW ARTICLE Peter Craig: Costs and Benefits: A Review of Research on Take-Up of Income-Related Benefits 537 SOCIAL POUCY DIGEST Jo Campling 107, 259, 415, 567 BOOK REVIEWS Fiona Williams: Social Policy: A Critical Introduction: Issues of Race, Gender and Class (D. Groves) 129 Maria Brenton and Clare Ungerson (eds): Social Policy Review (P. Wilding) 130 F. C. Pampel and J. B. Williamson : Age, Class, Politics and the Welfare State (J. Le Grand) 132 David Byrne: Beyond the Inner City (P. Burton) 133 Peter Malpass: Reshaping Housing Policy, Subsidies, Rents and Residualisation (M. Harloe) 134 Frank Honigsbaum : Health, Happiness and Security: the Creation of the National Health Service (D. Gladstone) 136 R. A. Parker: The Elderly and Residential Care: Australian Lessons for Britain (L. Challis) 138 B. Glastonbury, R. Bradley and J. Orme : Managing People in the Personal Social Services (L. Challis) 140 Sally Baldwin, Christine Godfrey and Carol Propper (eds): Quality of Life: Perspectives and Policies (B. Hudson) 141 David Robinson, Alan Maynard and Robert Chester (eds): Controlling Legal Addictions (R. Smith) 144 Duncan Gallie (ed.): Employment in Britain (C. Wallace) 146 Anne Worrall: Offending Women-Female Lawbreakers and the Criminal Justice System (P. Carlen) 147 Frankie Ashton and Gill Whitting (eds); Feminist Theory and Practical Policies: Shifting the Agenda in the 1980s (H. Rose) 149 The Violence Against Children Study Group; Taking Child Abuse Seriously (C. Hallett) 150 David J. Smith and Sally Tomlinson: The School Effect: A Study of Multi-Racial Comprehensives (G. A. N. Smith) 151 Alan Ware: Between Profit and State: Intermediate Organisations in Britain and the United States (E. Griggs) 153 Nicholas Deakin and Anthony Wright (eds): Consuming Public Services (N. Johnson) 279 Christina Perring, Julia Twigg and Karl Atkin : Families Caring for People Diagnosed as Mentally III: The Literature Re-examined (J. Korer) 280 J. Finch: Family Obligations and Social Change (D. Leat) 281 P. Abrams, S. Abrams, R. Humphrey and R. Snaith : Neighbourhood Care and Social Policy (D. Leat) 281 A. Tinker: An Evaluation of Very Sheltered Housing (R. Wheeler) 282 P. Garpenby : The State and the Medical Profession: A Cross-National Comparison of the Health Policy Arena in the UK and Sweden 1945-85 (A. Gould) 285 Tim Dant and Alan Deacon; Hostels to Homes? (S. Duncan) 286 Anthony Brundage: England's ‘Prussian Minister': Edwin Chadwick and the Politics of Government Growth, 1832-1854 (H. Jones) 288 Lydia Morris and Sally Ruane; Household Finance Management and the Labour Market (E. McLaughlin) 289 Eithne McLaughlin, Jane Millar and Kenneth Cooke : Work and Welfare Benefits (T. Novak) 290 Joan C. Brown: Victims or Villains? Social Security Benefits in Unemployment (T. Novak) 290 D. Cook: Rich Law, Poor Law: Different Responses to Tax and Social Security Fraud (M. Adler) 292 J. Peay : Tribunals on Trial. A Study of Decision-making Under the Mental Health Act 1983 (R. Sainsbury) 294 C. Smart: Feminism and the Power of Law (P. Foster) 296 C. Smart and S. Sevenhuisen (eds): Child Custody and the Politics of Gender (P. Foster) 296 Ruth Lister: The Exclusive Society: Citizenship and the Poor (J. Brown) 435 Kay Andrews and John Jacobs: Punishing the Poor: Poverty under Thatcher (J, Brown) 435 Jan Pahl: Money and Marriage (N. Charles) 437 Caroline Glendinning and Jane Millar (eds): Women and Poverty: Exploring the Research and Policy Agenda (N. Charles) 437 Christine Hallett (ed.): Women and Social Services Departments (D. Groves) 440 A. Leathard: Health Care Provision. Past, Present and Future (L. Harrison) 441 Mildred Blaxter : Health and Lifestyles (H. Graham) 442 John Eyles and Jenny Donovan : The Social Effects of Health Policy (H. Graham) 442 Brendan Devlin et al.: Medical Care: Is It a Consumer Good? (R. Robinson) 444 Calum Paton : US Health Politics (R. Robinson) 444 Nancy Korman and Howard Glennerster; Hospital Closure (D. Hunter) 446 Lorna Wing: Hospital Closure and the Resettlement of Residents (D. Hunter) 446 Andy Alaszewski and Bie Nio Ong (eds): Normalisation in Practice (N. Malin) 448 Marion Barnes, Ric Bowl and Mike Fisher: Sectioned: Social Services and the 1983 Mental Health Act (B. Hatfield) 449 Sven Olsson : Social Policy and the Welfare State in Sweden (A. Gould) 450 A. Maynard and P. Tether (eds): Preventing Alcohol and Tobacco Problems—Volume 1 (M. Calnan) 452 C. Godfrey and D. Robinson (eds): Preventing Alcohol and Tobacco Problems—Volume 2 (M. Calnan) 452 R. Baggott : Alcohol, Politics and Social Policy (M. Calnan) 452 M. Bulmer, j. Lewis and D. Piachaud (eds): The Goals of Social Policy (M. Hill) 587 J. Hills (ed.): The State of Welfare: The Welfare State in Britain Since 1974 (M. Hill) 587 P. Alcock et ah: The Social Economy and the Democratic State: a New Policy Agenda for the 1990s (N. D. Deakin) 590 Michael McCarthy (ed.): The New Politics of Welfare: An Agenda for the 1990s? (N. D. Deakin) 590 Michael Hill: Social Security Policy in Britain (H. Bolderson) 592 Howard Jones: Social Welfare in Third World Development (J. Midgley) 594 John Dixon and Robert P. Scheurell : Social Welfare in Latin America (J. Midgley) 594 Alexander Davidson : Two Models of Welfare. The Origins and Development of the Welfare State in Sweden and New Zealand 1888-1988 (S.Olsson) 596 P. Strong and J. Robinson : The NHS Under New Management (J, Keithley) 598 J. Carrier and I. Kendall (eds): Socialism and the NHS Q. Keithley) 598 Marjorie Tew: Safer Childbirth: A Critical History of Maternity Care (L. Harrison) 600 Simon Goodwin : Community Care and the Future of Mental Health Service Provision (J. Nixon) 602 Chris Heginbotham : Return to Community. The Voluntary Ethic and Community Care (J. Nixon) 602 H. Qureshi and A. Walker: The Caring Relationship: Elderly People and Their Families (R. Humphrey) 604 Christine Oldman: Moving in Old Age: New Directions in Housing Policies (A. Tinker) 606 Gwyndaf Williams: The Experience of Housing In Retirement (A. Tinker) 606 David Miller: Market, State and Community: Theoretical Foundations of Market Socialism (R. J. Arneson) 607 M. Ryan and T. Ward : Privatisation and the Penal System: The American Experience and the Debate in Britain (R. Morgan) 609 \ i y