Title Worlds of welfare : understanding the changing geographies of social welfare provision / Steven Pinch.

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Description	1 online resource (xiv, 167 pages) : maps
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-161) and index.
Contents	Introduction -- Changing the welfare state : 'chipping away at the edges' -- 'Hollowing out' the centre : changes within public services -- Regulation theory -- Structuration theory -- The cultural turn -- Conclusions.
Summary	Worlds of Welfare demonstrates how a geographical perspective is crucial to understanding the diversity of welfare reform and explores the future of the welfare state in multicultural societies.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	Public welfare -- Cross-cultural studies.
	Public welfare.
Genre/Form	Cross-cultural studies.
Subject	Welfare state -- Cross-cultural studies.
	Welfare state.
	Social policy -- Cross-cultural studies.
	Social policy.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Pinch, Steven. Worlds of welfare. London ; New York : Routledge, 1997 0415111889 (DLC) 96007594 (OCoLC)34517313
ISBN	020329694X (electronic book)
	9780203296943 (electronic book)
	0203427971 (electronic book)
	9780203427972 (electronic book)
	9780415111881
	0415111889
	9780415111898 (paperback)
	0415111897 (paperback)