Social Services category: 2206 books
Capitalists Against Markets
The Making of Labor Markets and Welfare States in the United States and Sweden
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2002
Conventional wisdom argues that welfare state builders in the US and Sweden in the 1930s took their cues from labor and labor movements. Swenson makes the startling argument that pragmatic social reformers looked for support not only from below but also from above, taking into account capitalist interests...
The Lobbying Strategy Handbook
10 Steps to Advancing Any Cause Effectively
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
The Lobbying Strategy Handbook shows how students with passion for a cause can learn to successfully influence lawmaking in the United States. The centerpiece of this book is a 10-step framework that walks the reader through the essential elements of conducting a lobbying campaign. The framework is...
by Jay S. Albanese
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of criminology find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data...
Why we need welfare
Collective action for the common good
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
What is welfare? Why is it a key part of the ‘common good’ for all? And how should we go about providing it? Pete Alcock, a well-respected expert, explains the challenges that collective welfare faces, and explores the complexities involved in delivering it, including debates about who benefits...
Rehabilitation for the Unwanted
Patients and Their Caretakers
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
This book is a study detailing what happens to people and what life is like in a rehabilitation program. The program discussed is embedded in an institution, called ""Farewell Hospital"" by the authors, that was designed to fill a demand for facilities for those judged unable to...
by Karen Terry
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of criminology find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data...
by Ramiro Martinez, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of criminology find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data...
Stretched Thin
Poor Families, Welfare Work, and Welfare Reform
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
When the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act became law in 1996, the architects of welfare reform celebrated what they called the new "consensus" on welfare: that cash assistance should be temporary and contingent on recipients' seeking and finding employment. However,...
by Peter Sharkey
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2006
The second edition of this guide to community care, aimed at both health and social care practitioners, offers a clear and structured introduction to present policy and practice. It is illustrated throughout by pertinent case material and has been updated with the latest policy developments and new literature.
by Barbara Fawcett, Brid Featherstone, Jim Goddard
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
This important text will provide a critical analysis of contemporary developments in child care policy under New Labour and the resulting policy and practice implications. The authors will draw on sociological debates, the growing children's rights literature and wider developments within social policy...
by Richard Rosenfeld
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of criminology find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data...
Troubling Children
Studies of Children and Social Problems
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
First Published in 2017. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.
by Glennerster, Howard
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
The challenge of meeting the growing cost of welfare is one of the most pressing issues facing governments of our time. Glennerster’s authoritative Understanding the cost of welfare assesses what welfare costs and how it is funded sector-by-sector. The book is written in a clear, accessible style,...
American Children in Chronic Poverty
Complex Risks, Benefit-Cost Analyses, and Untangling the Knot
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Why is it so difficult for some people to escape poverty? Cynthia Esposito Lamy answers that question in American Children in Chronic Poverty: Complex Risks, Benefit-Cost Analyses, and Untangling the Knot by describing the complex and interacting “knot” of problems that children face as they grow...