Welfare, Exclusion and Political Agency

As a result of research and reflection on practice in social welfare and in education outside school, Welfare, Exclusion and Political Agency explores the connections between professional practice and wider patterns of division, exclusion and resistance. The chapters discuss such issues as: working class children, competence and citizenship, 18501914; colonisation of the poor; the role of welfare in the internal control of immigration; social work and social exclusion; the experience of women practitioners in health, welfare and education; alienation and the dilemmas for formal and informal educators and how lesbians negotiate and experience coming out. Welfare, Exclusion and Political Agency will be essential reading for health and welfare professionals, academics and students of social work and social policy.Humphries, Beth is the author of 'Welfare, Exclusion and Political Agency', published 1999 under ISBN 9780415195133 and ISBN 0415195136.