Social Services category: 2206 books
by William Roth, Susan Peters
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Based on incisive analyses of economic globalization, class, politics, and bureaucracy, The Assault on Social Policy examines the ordinary speech used to make poverty and extreme inequality seem acceptable, the corporate strategies co-opting the distribution of wealth and other resources, and the...
Good Practice in Assessing Risk
Current Knowledge, Issues and Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Maintaining a balance between managing and assessing risk and upholding the required high standards of practice in health and social care can be demanding, particularly in the current climate of increased preoccupation with the difficult tensions between rights, protection and risk-taking.
Good...
China Since Tiananmen: Political, Economic and Social Conflicts - Documents and Analysis
Political, Economic and Social Conflicts - Documents and Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
This text presents a selection of articles from the Chinese and Hong Kong press. The 109 documents record the deepening social and political changes that have emerged in China since Tiananmen Square. The articles offer contrasting views in politics, economics, society and culture, and science and...
The political economy of the Irish welfare state
Church, state and capital
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
The political economy of the Irish welfare state provides a fascinating interpretation of the evolution of social policy in modern Ireland, as the product of a triangulated relationship between church, state and capital. Using official estimates, Professor Powell demonstrates that the welfare state...
Blinded by science
The social implications of epigenetics and neuroscience
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
In recent years, new areas of biology, especially epigenetics and neuroscience, have enthralled the public imagination. They have been used as powerful arguments for developing social policy in a particular direction, from early intervention in the lives of disadvantaged children to seeking 'biomarkers'...
Three Worlds of Relief
Race, Immigration, and the American Welfare State from the Progressive Era to the New Deal
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2012
Three Worlds of Relief examines the role of race and immigration in the development of the American social welfare system by comparing how blacks, Mexicans, and European immigrants were treated by welfare policies during the Progressive Era and the New Deal. Taking readers from the turn of the twentieth...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
The politics of austerity has seen governments across Europe cut back on welfare provision. As the State retreats, this edited collection explores secular and faith-based grassroots social action in Germany and the United Kingdom that has evolved in response to changing economic policy and expanding...
Japan's Emerging Youth Policy
Getting Young Adults Back to Work
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
From the 1960s onwards, Japan’s rapid economic growth coincided with remarkably smooth transitions from school to work and with internationally low levels of youth unemployment. However, this changed dramatically in the 1990s, and by the 2000s, youth employment came to be recognized as a serious...
Understanding Community Care
A Guide for Social Workers
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2006
The second edition of this popular textbook on community care has been substantially updated to incorporate both the new requirements for social work training, and the considerable developments in policy, law, research and practice since 1999. The book traces the historical development of community care...
by Professor John Swain, Sally French, Colin Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2004
`The strengths of this text are many. It has breadth and diversity in its content yet is presented in bite-size chapters. For those wishing to know more, it offers signposts to the relevant literature. The contributors have been carefully selected for their specific perspective yet these have been skilfully...
Welfare through Work
Conservative Ideas, Partisan Dynamics, and Social Protection in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
High economic growth and relatively equitable distribution were among the most conspicuous characteristics of the postwar Japanese political economy. The lure of the Japanese model, however, has faded since the 1990s. Growth is in short supply and equality a thing of the past. In Welfare through Work,...
by Helena Ribe, David Robalino, Ian Walker
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
This study highlights the interaction between social protection (SP) programs and labor markets in the Latin America region. It presents new evidence on the limited coverage of existing programs and emphasizes the challenges caused by high informality for achieving universal social protection for old...
Combating Poverty
Quebec's Pursuit of a Distinctive Welfare State
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
Combating Poverty critically analyses the growing divergence between Quebec and other large Canadian provinces in terms of social and labour market policies and their outcomes over the past several decades. While Canada is routinely classified as a single, homogeneous ‘liberal market’ regime,...
Never Enough
Capitalism and the Progressive Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
It is said that greed fuels capitalism and socialism feeds on envy. But what happens in a stable society when a successful economy generates material progress for one population sector, while simultaneously creating income inequality and poverty for another sector? While this has long been a classic...