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Neil Gilbert, Welfare Justice: Restoring Social Equity , Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1995, xii + 199 pp., £17.95 paper.

Neil Gilbert, Welfare Justice: Restoring Social Equity, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1995, xii + 199 pp., £17.95 paper. Neil Gilbert, the Chernin Professor of Social Welfare and Social Services at Berkeley, criticises several aspects of the American welfare system, including social security payments to married working women, assistance to 'welfare mothers', victim advocacy programmes, and the opaqueness of the welfare edifice in the USA through which huge transfers of wealth take place to middle and upper income earners. Readers are introduced to the perceived inequities embedded in these provisions and gain a clearer understanding of what it is that Americans go to the polls to decide. The book is sufficiently readable that British and European teachers and policy makers should find it a valuable addition to contemporary international sources on social policy.