Welfare Under Capitalism

In 11 wide-ranging chapters covering history, social policy and the economy, David Matthews grounds his thesis in the following. Anti-capitalist reforms protect the working class from the market, help the ruling class and prefigure a socialist society. In The Class Struggle and Welfare: Social Policy Under Capitalism (Monthly Review Press, 2025), the author focuses on Britain to view how working people in a modern society can improve laboring and living conditions from the class exploiting and oppressing them using the state apparatus...