Welfare and Human Nature

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

   PDF

2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Martin Hewitt

      Pages 1-18

3. Mainstream Traditions in Social Policy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-28

      PDF

   2. Social Democracy and Human Nature

      • Martin Hewitt

      Pages 29-46

   3. Equality and Difference in the Postwar Years

      • Martin Hewitt

      Pages 47-73

   4. Human Nature and the Right

      • Martin Hewitt

      Pages 74-102

4. Critical Perspectives on Human Nature

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-104

      PDF

   2. Marx and Human Nature

      • Martin Hewitt

      Pages 105-117

   3. Marxism, Human Nature and Need

      • Martin Hewitt

      Pages 118-138

   4. Feminism, the Politics of Recognition and Social Policy

      • Martin Hewitt

      Pages 139-162

   5. Conclusion

      • Martin Hewitt

      Pages 163-184

5. Back Matter

   Pages 185-210

   PDF

The subject of human nature has recently returned to the centre of welfare debate in Britain, with prime ministers, politicians and academics addressing the effects of social policy on individual character and morality. This book offers the first serious examination of ideas on human nature and motivation in twentieth century welfare.

• democracy
• Policy
• social democracy
• social policy

• University of Hertfordshire, UK

  Martin Hewitt

MARTIN HEWITT lectures in social policy at the University of Hertfordshire. He is author of Welfare, Ideology and Need (1992) and several articles and contributions to books on welfare theory and the late twentieth-century reconfiguration of welfare.

Policies and ethics