Social Services category: 2206 books
by Roger Burrows, Brian D Loader
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
There is no doubt that significant socio-economic changes have occurred over the last twenty years in the UK and other advanced capitalist societies. Consequently, Fordism, a bureaucratic, hierarchical model of industrial development has matured into Post-Fordism, with its greater emphasis on the...
Investing in Children
Work, Education, and Social Policy in Two Rich Countries
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Investing in Children: Work, Education, and Social Policy in Two Rich Countries presents new research by leading scholars in Australia and the United States on economic factors that influence children's development and the respective social policies that the two nations have designed to boost human...
Welfare Reform in Canada
Provincial Social Assistance in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Welfare Reform in Canada provides systematic knowledge of Canadian social assistance by assessing provincial welfare regimes and emphasizing changes since the late twentieth century. The book examines activation, social investment, and economic inequalities and provides nuanced perspectives on social...
Religion and faith-based welfare
From wellbeing to ways of being
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
This original book makes a timely and potentially controversial contribution both to the teaching of social policy and the wider debates surrounding it in Britain today. It offers a critical and theoretically sensitive overview of the role of religious values, actors and institutions in the development...
Rescuing the Vulnerable
Poverty, Welfare and Social Ties in Modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
In many ways, the European welfare state constituted a response to the new forms of social fracture and economic turbulence that were born out of industrialization—challenges that were particularly acute for groups whose integration into society seemed the most tenuous. Covering a range of national...
After Welfare
The Culture of Postindustrial Social Policy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2000
Do contemporary welfare policies reflect the realities of the economy and the needs of those in need of public assistance, or are they based on outdated and idealized notions of work and family life? Are we are moving from a "war on poverty" to a "war against the poor?" In this...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Climate and disaster risk is increasing in the Asia and Pacific region, exacerbating existing vulnerabilities and creating new ones. The adverse effects are felt most by the poor and the vulnerable. Social protection programs, when designed with climate and disaster risk considerations in mind, provide...
Social policy in challenging times
Economic crisis and welfare systems
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
There is no precedent to the current economic crisis which looks set to redefine social policy debate throughout the globe. But its effects are not uniform across nations. Bringing together a range of expert contributions, the key lesson to emerge from this book is that 'the crisis' is better understood...
by Morag Owen
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Can justice be achieved in voluntary cases - or is it purely a matter for courts to determine? Using a multi-disciplinary framework, which has at its centre a philosophical/anthropological view of social work as a moral practice, the author explores the notion of justice in public child care. The...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
This volume intends to fill the gap in the range of publications about the post-transition social housing policy developments in Central and Eastern Europe by delivering critical evaluations about the past two decades of developments in selected countries’ social housing sectors, and showing what...
Asia’s Fiscal Challenge
Financing the Social Protection Agenda of the Sustainable Development Goals
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Developing countries in Asia have expanded their social protection programs. One of the key challenges is creating sustainable financing---considered the bedrock for success of the social protection agendas of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Agenda and Strategy 2030 of the...
New philanthropy and social justice
Debating the conceptual and policy discourse
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
There is a broad consensus that traditional philanthropy has the potential to be transformative and address inequalities and injustices, as well as provide relief to the poor. Over the last two decades individual capitalists and private corporations have become increasingly involved in philanthropy,...
Displaced by Development
Confronting Marginalisation and Gender Injustice
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2009
This compilation is a rare attempt to apply gender analysis to development-induced-displacement and resettlement in the Indian context. It brings together leading scholar-activists, researchers and contributors from people’s movements to critique and draw attention to the injustices perpetrated...
by Mildred A. Schwartz, Raymond Tatalovich
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
In The Rise and Fall of Moral Conflicts in the United States and Canada, sociologist Mildred A. Schwartz and political scientist Raymond Tatalovich bring their disciplinary insights to the study of moral issues. Beginning with prohibition, Schwartz and Tatalovich trace the phases of its evolution...