Normality is hard work : trade unions and the politics of community care / Mick Carpenter.

162 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references.

Foreword / Alan Jinkinson -- Introduction: Towards user-centred and worker friendly services -- 1. Institutional solutions and the prehistory of community care -- 2. Community care in the 1950s and beyond -- 3. The road to community care reform -- 4. The Griffiths reforms -- a needs-based system at last? -- 5. Trade union responses to community care -- 6. So what is good community care? -- Conclusion: How to get there from here -- Appendix: Community care -- a chronology.