Poverty and Welfare in Ireland 1838-1948
Poverty and Welfare in Ireland 1838-1948

Author: Virginia Crossman

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780716530893

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This book is a ground-breaking history of poverty and welfare in modern Ireland, in the era of the Irish poor law. As the first study to address poor relief and health care together, the book fills an important gap, providing a much-needed introduction and assessment of the evolution of social welfare in 19th- and early 20th-century Ireland. The collection also addresses a number of related issues, including private philanthropy, the attitudes of landowners towards poor relief, and the crisis of the poor law during the Great Famine of 1845-1850. Together, these interlinking contributions both survey current research and suggest new areas for investigation, providing further stimulus to the growing field of Irish welfare history.

The Irish Welfare State in the Twenty-First Century
The Irish Welfare State in the Twenty-First Century

Author: Mary P. Murphy

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-10-04

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 1137571381

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This book provides a critical and theoretically-informed assessment of the nature and types of structural change occurring in the Irish welfare state in the context of the 2008 economic crisis. Its overarching framework for conceptualising and analysing welfare state change and its political, economic and social implications is based around four crucial questions, namely what welfare is for, who delivers welfare, who pays for welfare, and who benefits. Over the course of ten chapters, the authors examine the answers as they relate to social protection, labour market activation, pensions, finance, water, early child education and care, health, housing and corporate welfare. They also innovatively address the impact of crisis on the welfare state in Northern Ireland. The result is to isolate key drivers of structural welfare reform, and assess how globalisation, financialisation, neo-liberalisation, privatisation, marketisation and new public management have deepened and diversified their impact on the post-crisis Irish welfare state. This in-depth analysis will appeal to sociologists, economists, political scientists and welfare state practitioners interested in the Irish welfare state and more generally in the analysis of welfare state change.

Social Policy in Ireland
Social Policy in Ireland

Author: Seán Healy

Publisher: Oak Tree Press (Ireland)

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13:

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In this volume, 29 Irish social policy commentators contribute to chapters ranging across the social policy spectrum. Some chapters examine issues of principle, some analyze practice and others analyze specific policy problems.

The Birth of Social Welfare in Ireland, 1922-52
The Birth of Social Welfare in Ireland, 1922-52

Author: Mel Cousins

Publisher: Four Courts Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13:

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This is the first publication to look in detail at the politics and the policies of the development of the social welfare system in Ireland. It aims to shed some light on the broader political history of Ireland, on the political parties and the key figures of the time, in the 1920s through to the 1950s, through an examination of one of the country's major social policy areas.

Women and Poverty in Ireland
Women and Poverty in Ireland

Author: Brian Nolan

Publisher: Combat Poverty Agency

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 91

ISBN-13: 1860761364

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This study of Ireland examines the increasing risk of poverty among female-headed households; the interaction of low pay and household poverty; and the incidence of hidden deprivation experienced by women within households. It draws extensively on the 1994 Living in Ireland survey, a national survey of over 4000 households undertaken to explore the extent of poverty in Ireland.