Assault On Social Policy; Author: Roth, William; Hardback; Book

Author: Roth, William
Hardback; Book
210 pages
Published: February 2002
University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
ISBN: 0231123809

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 analyzesthe 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.This text argues that American social policy largely serves global corporate interests rather than the general public. Based upon analyses of economic globalization, class, politics, and bureaucracy, the author argues that the notion of the free market is a myth.