Anarchist Perspective on Social Welfare

* Chapter: Steve Millett. Neither State Nor Market. An Anarchist Perspective on Social Welfare.

URL = https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/steve-millett-neither-state-nor-market?

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"In this chapter I outline briefly the development of the Welfare State in Britain, stressing the importance of social control in its evolution. I then look at the evidence regarding the issue of who benefits from the State provision of welfare. I suggest that welfare can only be considered as a function of empowerment, and conclude that not only are participatory alternatives separate from the State a necessity, but that these alternatives offer a possible starting-point for the creation of a Stateless society."

Contents

ToC:

Origins and history

The foundations of the Welfare State

The development of the contemporary Welfare State

The post-war Welfare State

The efficacy of the Welfare State

Welfare and anarchy

Against the State — Right or Left?

The case against the State

Social welfare and the anarchist alternative

Here to there

More information

Source: From Chapter 3 of Twenty-First Century Anarchism: Unorthodox Ideas for a New Millennium (edited by Jon Purkis and James Bowen).