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**Out this week**​

All our welfare  

By Peter Beresford

PB £23.99 ISBN: 978-1-4473-2894-0

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“Welfare reform doesn’t need to mean cuts and privatisation. As this crucial book demonstrates, a dynamic, participatory system is an alternative to both the market and top-down bureaucracies. A much needed contribution.” Owen Jones, author and Guardian columnist

Who ‘we’ are in society has radically changed. 

Family and personal, the welfare state is to do with all of us. Peter asks what’s going wrong with social policy with the unprecedented junior doctors’ strike, people committing suicide and dying as a result of benefit reform; more and more people unable to afford a home. Do we need a different kind of welfare state for the future? The book connects the history, policy and politics of the welfare state with his family’s experience, and reveals strong support for the welfare state and fears for its loss. He offers a route map out of the present mess of a participatory and sustainable alternative for the future with ideas about how we can look after each other in a massively changing world and society. Can we afford a welfare state? Yes, if we revision it as this book suggests.

Read the Foreword by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown on our blog.

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