Part 1 Introduction: social policy subject or object?, Martin Bulmer et al. Part 2 Social policy - retrospect and prospect: the Webbs, the Charity Organisation Society and the Ratan Tata Foundation - social policy from the perspective of 1912, Joe Harris; the academic tradition in social policy - the Titmuss years, Ramesh Mishra; social work and social policy in the twentieth century - retrospect and prospect, Robert Pinker; swimming against the tide - prospects for social policy, Howard Glennerster. Part 3 Social policy and the family: the construction of dependency, Hilary Land; social policy, social engineering and the family in the 1990s, Janet Finch; dependency in the welfare state, Kari Waerness; the social construction of dependency - comments from a Third World perspective, Caroline Moser. Part 4 Social policy and the community: social policy - the community-based approach, David Donnison; community development and the underclass, S.M.Miller; social polarisation, the inner city and community, A.H.Halsey; only disconnect - law and order, social policy and the community, David Downes; the underclass, empowerment and public policy, Martin Bulmer. Part 5 Social policy and the economy: social policy and the economy, Zsuzsa Ferge; inequality in developing countries - a comment on Ferge, Frances Stewart; can we afford to work?, Walter Korpi. Part 6 conclusions: an inside view, Brian Abel-Smith; an outside view, Albert Weale.
