Abstract
Social services are often regarded as a double-edged sword for capitalism. On the one hand, they could promote capital accumulation and political legitimacy in capitalist societies. On the other hand, they could create adverse effects on the commodity relationship. In response to this contradictory relation between social services and capitalism, capitalist governments often attempt to take up "double-tasks", that is alongside providing social services to enhance capital accumulation and political legitimacy, they try to reduce the decommodifying effects of social services. Since the 1980s both the British and Hong Kong governments have attempted to intensify sales of public housing with the aims of promoting home ownership and the commodity relationship. The purposes of this article are to examine how these sale programmes are related to the promotion of the commodity relationship and to analyse why they have achieved different results.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 209-224 |
| Journal | International Social Work |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Apr 1997 |
| Externally published | Yes |
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