Social Services Welfare category: 1103 books
by Kish Bhatti-Sinclair, Robert Adams, Lena Dominelli
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Concerns about social justice and equality are woven into the historyof social work and welfare, yet practitioners and service users continueto experience discrimination. While the obstacles to real equality areconstantly changing, the need remains for social work practice that is inclusive,empowering...
by Carolyn Franklin M.A.
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2019
There’s a direct connection between welfare and crime, and by extension police brutality. The cost of welfare, and membership in that life style continually in-creases, thus the costs from welfare-related crimes increases. And by extension police brutality increases. Law enforcement gets more brutal...
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...
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...
Social policy in an era of competition
From global to local perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Welfare states globally have been subjected to reform agendas that have stressed economic competitiveness but how has global competition reshaped welfare states in practice? Providing a new cross-national and international narrative this book captures the complexity of social policy reform process...
Trust, Social Capital and the Scandinavian Welfare State
Explaining the Flight of the Bumblebee
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Denmark exemplifies the puzzle of socio-economic success in Scandinavia. Populations are thriving despite the world’s highest levels of tax and generous social benefits. Denmark would appear to be a land of paradise for free-riders and those who want ‘money for nothing’. However, the national personality...
by Tibor Scitovsky
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
The volume is divided into three parts:
A: Economic Growth and Related Problems (covering international trade and economic integration, including a comparative study between Europe and America)
B: Theoretical Welfare Economics (welfare propositions in economics, profit maximization and...
The Invisible Safety Net
Protecting the Nation's Poor Children and Families
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2008
In one of the most provocative books ever published on America's social welfare system, economist Janet Currie argues that the modern social safety net is under attack.
Unlike most books about antipoverty programs, Currie trains her focus not on cash welfare, which accounts for a small and...
The Promise of Welfare Reform
Political Rhetoric and the Reality of Poverty in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2006
Find out how-and why-legislation has made economic rights more important than human rights
Since 1996, politicians and public officials in the United States have celebrated the success of welfare reform legislation despite little, if any, evidence to support their claims. The Promise of Welfare Reform: Political
Landscapes of Care
Comparative Perspectives on Family Caregiving
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Given the increasing shift of care from state residential services to community-based support, this book examines the complex geographies of family caregiving for young adults with intellectual disabilities. It traces how family ’carers’ are directly and indirectly affected by a broad array of...
Between two worlds of father politics
USA or Sweden?
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
The essential message of the ‘two regimes’ model is that the social politics of fatherhood have taken on a global significance and that the USA and Sweden represent two ends of an international continuum of ways of thinking about fatherhood. The key selling points of the two regimes model are...
by Avis Vidal
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
This book focuses on a gap in current social work practice theory: community change. Much work in this area of macro practice, particularly around ""grassroots"" community organizing, has a somewhat dated feel to it, is highly ideological in orientation, or suffers from superficiality,...
In Our Hands
A Plan to Replace the Welfare State
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Imagine that the United States were to scrap all its income transfer programs—including Social Security, Medicare, and all forms of welfare—and give every American age twenty-one and older $10,000 a year for life.This is the Plan, a radical new approach to social policy that defies any partisan...
The Lost Children of Wilder
The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
In 1973 Marcia Lowry, a young civil liberties attorney, filed a controversial class-action suit that would come to be known as Wilder, which challenged New York City’s operation of its foster-care system. Lowry’s contention was that the system failed the children it was meant to help because it...