Social Services category: 2206 books
The Politics and Civics of National Service
Lessons from the Civilian Conservation Corps, VISTA, and AmeriCorps
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
In 1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt created America's first domestic national service program: the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). As part of this program-the largest and most highly esteemed of its kind-nearly three million unemployed men worked to rehabilitate, protect, and build the nation's...
To Live and Die in America
Class, Power, Health and Healthcare
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
To Live and Die in America details how the United States has among the worst indicators of health in the industrialised world and at the same time spends significantly more on its health care system than any other industrial nation.
Robert Chernomas and Ian Hudson explain this contradictory...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2008
This is a major contribution to our understanding of European integration.
It analyzes for the first time, in a highly systematic fashion, European integration as transnational political society formation in a common political space.
Four conceptual chapters discuss different approaches...
by Alec Grant
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
In line with current government policy and related recommendations, and evidence-based clinical practice guidelines, mental health students will be increasingly required to either engage in, or be appropriately familiar with, the principles of cognitive behavioural interventions.
This book...
Health Care in Malaysia
The Dynamics of Provision, Financing and Access
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
The health care system in Malaysia has undergone a fundamental transformation over the last two decades. This book examines this transformation and explores the pressing issues it faces today. It includes coverage of:
the evolution of the system since independence, from the colonial legacy of...
Helping Children and Adolescents with Chronic and Serious Medical Conditions
A Strengths-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
Praise for Helping Children and Adolescents with Chronic and Serious Medical Conditions
A Strengths-Based Approach
"Helping Children and Adolescents with Chronic and Serious Medical Conditionsprovides a wellspring of knowledge, from the theoretical to the clinical. The many vignettes and transcriptions...
Flat Broke with Children
Women in the Age of Welfare Reform
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2003
Hailed as a great success, welfare reform resulted in a dramatic decline in the welfare rolls--from 4.4 million families in 1996 to 2 million in 2003. But what does this "success" look like to the welfare mothers and welfare caseworkers who experienced it? In Flat Broke With Children, Sharon Hays...
Looking Away
Inequality, Prejudice and Indifference in New India
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
This feeble blemished light, this dawn mangled by night, this is not the morning we had all so longed for... -Faiz Ahmed Faiz In the two decades since the early 1990s, when India confirmed its allegiance to the Free Market, more of its citizens have become marginalized than ever before, and society...
Sickness, Disability and Work: Breaking the Barriers
A Synthesis of Findings across OECD Countries
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2010
Too many workers leave the labour market permanently due to health problems or disability, and too few people with reduced work capacity manage to remain in employment. This is a social and economic tragedy common to virtually all OECD countries. It also raises an apparent paradox that needs explaining:...
Homeless in Seattle
An Examination of the City’s Homeless Crisis, the Current Responses, and Possible Solutions to Ending Homelessness
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2018
Seattle is currently experiencing a humanitarian crisis. More than ten thousand people live on the streets of the city as homeless individuals and their numbers continue to rise. In order to understand the crisis, an examination of the make up of the homeless population needs to be done in combination...
China's Automobile Industry: Policies, Problems and Prospects
Policies, Problems and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
The author presents an argument for a system of social insurance that replaces welfare with a Guaranteed Adequate Income. The book reviews public assistance programmes, and evaluates other plans that have been proposed.
The Nordic Welfare State in Three Eras
From Emancipation to Discipline
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Nordic welfare states are known for a unique combination of equity and efficiency and for political institutions facilitating compromise and consensus between conflicting interests. The Nordic Welfare State in Three Eras: From Emancipation to Discipline analyses the historical and contemporary evolution...
Mothers in Poverty
A Study of Fatherless Families
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Professor Kriesberg explores in this book the many myths about the poor, the welfare dependents, and the husbandless mothers. The evidence marshalled does not support the idea that people continue on welfare generation after generation, that the children of broken families have disrupted marriages...
Work in the Digital Age
Challenges of the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Shining a light on the very different experiences of work in the digital age, this book provides a unique contribution to the reform discussion on the consequences of the fourth industrial revolution. Drawing on a wide range of international expertise, contributors examine important policy challenges...