Corporate Power and Social Policy in a Global Economy: British Welfare Under the Influence

Farnsworth (social policy, London South Bank U., UK) explores the influence of business in the formation of social policy in Britain from 1979 to 2002. Business, Farnsworth argues, has a unique, though variable, structural power to influence policy. This influence has been wielded by actors sharing an emerging "international business view and approach to social policy" in the areas education, healthcare, social security, and housing. He analyzes the effect of firm size and other factors on the formation of these views and approaches. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR