How social and intellectual changes undermine our justifications for the welfare state The welfare state has come under severe pressure internationally, partly

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Want, disease, ignorance, squalor, and idleness: first recognized toget

With postmodernism has come the questioning of the very idea of 'the social'. Thinkers form across the social sciences and humanities now agree that this one fo

A New Social Question: Capitalism, Socialism and Utopia brings together a selection of papers presented at the conference on “Capitalism and Socialism: Utopia

The social question is back. Yet today's social question is not primarily between labour and capital, as it was in the nineteenth century and throughout much of