The Influence Of Huge On Social Welfare

Since the changes of society within itself, more and more money is needed to help this change and growth of the world. The Welfare state has seen a massive rise with more and more problems existing, since the publication of the Beveridge Report, Britain’s welfare system has become increasingly non-contributory and is paid for out of general taxation. In 2011 around 200 billion was spent on benefits and pensions, 40% more in real terms than in 1997. (Goodhart, D, 2012) A lot of people felt that more needs to be done with the spending on the welfare system. In an analysis of British Social Attitudes data, it was found that, regarding welfare spending, three key groups can be identified. (Sefton, T, 2005) ‘Samaritans’, totalling 29% of the population, …show more content…
There are many theories that derived from the welfare state, some of these are industrialisation, democratic participation and a certain level of political mobilization. These theories suggest that the welfare was inevitable to exist because of the growing population and the problems of modern society. Fraser (2009) suggest that the ‘logic of industrialization’ thesis holds that welfare development is related to problems of industrial development in capitalist societies such as urbanization, poverty, dependence on insecure waged work, the need for a more skilled and more literate workforce, and the recognition of involuntary unemployment. (Fraser, 2009) Moreover, this theory suggest that welfare is beneficial to economic growth because the idea that as new social needs are uncovered they must be met, and in others that a healthy and happy workforce will be a more productive one. One of the way to understand the origins of welfare state, is to define it as a highly political process. This theory is called the logic of democracy, T H Marshall (1950) argued that there was a three-stage development of citizenship from civil to political to socio-economic rights. Another theory is seeing social welfare as a social control. Many felt that it was to influence labour movements, and the purpose of policies was to reinforce work norms (Ginsburg, 1979). These theories that I have explained about are very different but it is important to understand that they focus on different aspects of welfare state developments. The welfare state has grown to become the major part of the citizen’s relationship with the state. The extensive changes in the society has caused the restructuring