A01=William Roth
Author_William Roth
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Product details
- ISBN 9780231123808
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jan 2002
- Publisher: Columbia University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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American social policy today largely serves global corporate interests rather than the general public, according to William Roth. Based on incisive analyses of economic globalization, class, politics, and bureaucracy, The Assault on Social Policy argues that the perfection of the free market is a myth. Roth analyzes the rhetoric used to make poverty seem acceptable, shows how corporations affect the distribution of wealth and other resources, and considers the effect on disabled people, criminals, children, and health care. He concludes that increased transnational corporate power has created the need for large-scale systematic public policy changes.
William Roth is associate professor of social welfare and public policy at the University at Albany, State University of New York.
