A critical re-evaluation of Australian social policy and welfare both past and present. The author synthesizes the "old" disciplines of history and sociology into a new discipline, historical sociology, which aims to put an end to atheoretical history and ahistorical sociology, using the modes of comparison, interpretation and advocacy. The social criticism is directed against three ultimate targets: against failures in the Australian welfare state; against the contradictions in the world capitalist economy; and against the doctrines of economic rationalism echoed by the Australian government. Above all the writers ask: what is the social research for, and whom does it benefit? They project an alternative vision of Australian's potential future as a just and compassionate society.
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