Pete Alcock
Moving pictures
Realities of voluntary action
This book will improve understanding of how voluntary organisations are structured and evolve, and how they respond to opportunities and constraints. Drawing on case studies with eight UK organisations, it addresses the key dilemmas of voluntary action and explores how these are experienced and managed within particular organisations.
Welfare and wellbeing
Richard Titmuss's contribution to social policy
This book brings together a selection of Richard Titmuss's important writings on a range of key social policy issues, together with commentary from experts in the field.
The companion volume is, Private complaints and public health: Richard Titmuss on the National Health Service edited by Ann Oakley and Jonathan Barker (The Policy Press, 2004).
Why We Need Welfare
Collective Action for the Common Good
Explains the challenges that collective welfare faces, and explores the complexities involved in delivering it, including debates about who benefits from welfare and how and where it is delivered.