Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-254) and indexes.
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1. Towards a post-Fordist welfare state? The restructuring of Britain, social policy and the future of welfare / Brian Loader and Roger Burrows -- 2. The transition to post-Fordism and the Schumpeterian workfare state / Bob Jessop -- 3. The politics of the modernisation of the UK welfare state / Paul Hoggett -- 4. Social relations, welfare and the post-Fordism debate / Fiona Williams -- 5. Prisoners of the Beveridge dream? The political mobilisation of the poor against contemporary welfare regimes / Paul Bagguley -- 6. Continuity and discontinuity in the emergence of the 'post-Fordist' welfare state / Christopher Pierson -- 7. Restructuring the local welfare state / Allan Cochrane -- 8. Planning for and against the divided city: a case study of the north east of England / David Byrne -- 9. Public services and local economic regeneration in a post-Fordist economy / Mike Geddes.
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10. Flexibility in higher education / Michael Rustin -- 11. Labour flexibility and the changing welfare state: is there a post-Fordist model? / Steven Pinch -- 12. Consumers, consumption and post-Fordism / Alan Warde.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This text examines the implications of applying post-Fordism, with its greater emphasis on the individual, freedom of choice and flexibility, to contemporary restructuring of the British welfare state.