Download or read book Imagining Welfare Futures written by Gordon Hughes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-04 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagining Welfare Futures explores possible futures of welfare by considering different types of relationship between the public and the state through which social welfare may be organized beyond the millennium. By drawing on contemporary debates about the 'citizen', 'the community' and 'the consumer', the book explores what each of these imaginary figures might mean for the next generation of welfare users.