Vic George is Professor of Social Policy and Administration and Social Work at the University of Kent at Canterbury. Paul Wilding is Professor of Social Administration at the University of Manchester. Together they have written Motherless Families (1972), Ideology and Social Welfare (1976) and The Impact of Social Policy (1984), all published by Routledge & Kegan Paul. They were also joint editors of the Concepts in Social Policy series (also published by Routledge & Kegan Paul)., Professor of Social Administration, University of Manchester
Chapter 1 Society, the state, social problems and social policy
Chapter 2 The anti-collectivists
Chapter 3 The reluctant collectivists
Chapter 4 The Fabian socialists
Chapter 5 The Marxists
Chapter 6 The future of the welfare state
