Social Policy in Times of Austerity: Global Economic Crisis and the New Politics of Welfare

The 2008 global economic crisis was unprecedented in living memory and its impact on economic and social life immense. Large-scale social policy interventions played a crucial role in helping to mediate the crisis, and yet the welfare state continues to come under attack. A new age of austerity, based more on politics than economics, is threatening to undermine the very foundations of the welfare state.

However, as this important book illustrates, there is still room for optimism - resista...