The Inclusive Society?: Social exclusion and new labour

✍ Scribed by Ruth Levitas (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 293
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The idea of social exclusion is part of the new political language. When Labour came into government in 1997, it launched the Social Exclusion Unit to pursue this central theme. But what exactly does social inclusion mean? This revised and updated edition of The Inclusive Society? identifies three competing meanings of the term in contemporary British Politics, emphasising poverty, employment and morality. Ruth Levitas argues that there has been a shift away from understanding social exclusion as primarily a problem of poverty, towards questions of social integration through paid work and moral regulation.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Three discourses of social exclusion....Pages 7-28
From social justice to social cohesion....Pages 29-48
The optimism of will....Pages 49-69
Staking claims....Pages 70-88
Community rules....Pages 89-111
New labour, new discourse....Pages 112-127
From equality to inclusion....Pages 128-158
Delivering social inclusion....Pages 159-177
The new durkheimian hegemony....Pages 178-189
From margins to mainstream....Pages 190-234
Back Matter....Pages 235-277

✦ Subjects

Political Sociology; Social Care; Political Theory; Social Policy