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Global Social Transformation and Social Action: The Role of Social Workers
Social Work-Social Development Volume III
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Global social transformation calls for global social action. 2010 saw the launch of The Global Agenda for Social Work and Social Development, which detailed how social workers can strive to bring about increased social justice. The time is right to start to address and demonstrate the actions that...
Social Policy and Social Change
Toward the Creation of Social and Economic Justice
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014
The Second Edition of Social Policy and Social Change is a timely examination of the field, unique in its inclusion of both a historical analysis of problems and policy and an exploration of how capitalism and the market economy have contributed to them. The New Edition of this seminal text examines...
Children's Perspectives on Integrated Services
Every Child Matters in Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Launching Palgrave's new Interagency Working in Health and Social Care series, this book provides one of the first reflective assessments of the Every Child Matters legacy of New Labour. Woven through with the voice of the child, it examines the new landscape of children's services, in bothprinciple and practice.
by Kevin D. Williamson
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Each year, the United States spends $65,000 per poor family to fight poverty” in a country in which the average family income is just under $50,000. Meanwhile, most of that money goes to middle-class and upper-middle-class families, and the current U.S. poverty rate is higher than it was before...
Community Practice
Theories and Skills for Social Workers
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
For almost two decades, Community Practice has been a definitive text for social workers, community practitioners, and students eager to help individuals contribute to and use community resources or work to change oppressive community structures. In this third edition, a wealth of new charts and cases...
Social Policy
Theories, Concepts and Issues
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2005
The Third Edition of this widely adopted textbook has been thoroughly revised and offers an authoritative and up-to-date coverage of the key theories, concepts and issues in social policy. The lively and readable text has been designed to provide students with the essential tools to gain a clear understanding...
Right Social Justice
Better ways to help the poor
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
For decades, Social Justice has been trumpeted as the means of assisting the downtrodden. Rarely have any of its proponents proved that it is other than an egalitarian ideology, without an analytical base. Assisting the poor may be a good thing but only if programs to aid them are effective and only...
by Elizabeth Kneebone, Alan Berube
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
It has been nearly a half century since President Lyndon Johnson declared war on poverty. Back in the 1960s tackling poverty "in place" meant focusing resources in the inner city and in rural areas. The suburbs were seen as home to middle- and upper-class families-affluent commuters and...
Irish social policy (second edition)
A critical introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
This 2nd edition of a highly respected textbook offers a comprehensive introduction to Irish social policy. It provides an accessible, critical overview taking account of significant changes over recent years. The book is organised across four key sections: 1: Traces the emergence and development...
by Carlo Fanelli
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
“[A] political economist with a gift– due to his not having forgotten his working class background– for bringing complex economic problems down to their real world implications for working people.” - Jeff Noonan
Megacity Malaise documents how municipal governance, labour-management...
by Martin Webber
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2011
Mental health social workers work within multidisciplinary teams, often based in health settings. The variety of services they work within are shaped by mental health policy that is increasingly being influenced by research evidence of 'what works'. This fully-revised second edition has a new chapter...
Nationalism and Social Policy
The Politics of Territorial Solidarity
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2010
Despite the recent proliferation of literature on nationalism and on social policy, relatively little has been written to analyse the possible interaction between the two. Scholars interested in social citizenship have indirectly dealt with the interaction between national identity and social programs...
Making Democracy Work Better
Mediating Structures, Social Capital, and the Democratic Prospect
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2003
The decade of the 1980s marked a triumph for market capitalism. As politicians of all stripes sought to reinvent government in the image of private enterprise, they looked to the voluntary sector for allies to assuage the human costs of reductions in public policies of social welfare. This book details...
by Kuhner, Stefan, Hudson
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
This fully updated edition of an essential introductory text offers a concise guide to the key structures and concepts in social policy and is now supplemented by unique and innovative digital content that adds depth and provides a truly integrated way of learning. It is accompanied by a digital app,...