Social Services Welfare category: 1103 books
by Sherrow O. Pinder
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Pinder explores how globalization has shaped, and continues to shape, the American economy, which impacts the welfare state in markedly new ways. In the United States, the transformation from a manufacturing economy to a service economy escalated the need for an abundance of flexible, exploitable,...
Welfare Reform in Persistent Rural Poverty
Dreams, Disenchantments, and Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2006
Since the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 was enacted, policy makers, agency administrators, community activists, and academics from a broad range of disciplines have debated and researched the implications of welfare reform in the United States. Most of the...
For whose benefit?
The everyday realities of welfare reform
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
What does day-to-day life involve for those who receive out-of-work benefits? Is the political focus on moving people from ‘welfare’ and into work the right one? And do mainstream political and media accounts of the ‘problem’ of ‘welfare’ accurately reflect lived realities? For whose benefit?...
A Social Laboratory for Modern France
The Musée Social and the Rise of the Welfare State
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2002
As a nineteenth-century think tank that sought answers to France’s pressing “social question,” the Musée Social reached across political lines to forge a reformist alliance founded on an optimistic faith in social science. In A Social Laboratory for Modern France Janet R. Horne presents the...
by David Garland
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Welfare states vary across nations and change over time. And the balance between markets and government; free enterprise and social protection is perennially in question. But all developed societies have welfare states of one kind or another - they are a fundamental dimension of modern government....
by Stephen Darwall
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2010
What kind of life best ensures human welfare? Since the ancient Greeks, this question has been as central to ethical philosophy as to ordinary reflection. But what exactly is welfare? This question has suffered from relative neglect. And, as Stephen Darwall shows, it has done so at a price. Presenting...
by Robert Adams, Jo Campling
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2002
Social Policy for Social Work provides a comprehensive, critical and engaging introduction to social policy for students and practitioners of social work. The text is clearly structured into three parts that cover contexts, policies and issues. The first part explores changing perspectives on social...
by Franz-Xaver Kaufmann
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
While social welfare programs, often inspired by international organizations, are spreading throughout the world, the more far-reaching notion of governmental responsibility for the basic well-being of all members of a political society is not, although it remains a feature of Europe and the former...
The Human Cost of Welfare: How the System Hurts the People It's Supposed to Help
How the System Hurts the People It's Supposed to Help
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Unlike other books on welfare, this one draws on the stories of more than 100 welfare recipients who are trapped in a system that keeps them underemployed and unemployed. The authors present case studies that show that being a part of a welfare program can actively result in the recipient having to...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
In the United States, the causes and even the meanings of poverty are disconnected from the causes and meanings of global poverty. The Routledge Handbook of Poverty in the United States provides an authoritative overview of the relationship of poverty with the rise of neoliberal capitalism in the...
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...
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...
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 Bernd Marin
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
What is the future of welfare in Europe? The European welfare state is generally considered to be one of the finest achievements of the post-1945 world. Set up to eradicate poverty by providing a minimum standard of living and social safety net, the welfare state has come under increasing strain from...