Social Services Welfare category: 1103 books
Managing Social Change and Social Policy in Greater China
Welfare Regimes in Transition
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
East Asia is at the heart of the global economic transformation, and the countries of the region are witnessing rapidly changing labour markets, alongside the pressure to cut production costs and lower taxes in order to become successful ‘competition states’. These changes have resulted in increased...
Targeting Social Benefits
International Perspectives and Trends
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Over the last decade changing family life and increasing fiscal constraints on welfare expenditures have forced industrialized nations to reconsider how they approach social protection. Faced with fiscal and demographic changes, many countries have been struggling to -develop innovative policy responses....
The Rise and Fall of the Miraculous Welfare Machine
Immigration and Social Democracy in Twentieth-Century Sweden
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Sweden is well known for the success of its welfare state. Many believe that success was made possible in part by the country’s ethnic homogeneity and that the increased diversity of Sweden’s population is putting its welfare state at risk. Few, however, have suggested convincing mechanisms for...
Modernizing the Korean Welfare State
Towards the Productive Welfare Model
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
Modernizing the Korean Welfare State analyzes recent developments in social and public policy in South Korea. Its focus is the new approach to Korea's system of social protection, known as the productive welfare paradigm. This volume brings together an international group of scholars to examine the...
Australia's Welfare Wars
The Players, the Politics and the Ideologies
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
In this fully revised third edition of Australia's Welfare Wars, Philip Mendes questions many of the key values and assumptions that determine contemporary social welfare policies, and the factors and forces that shape these policies in Australia.
At Risk
Social Justice in Child Welfare and Other Human Services
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2009
In At Risk, Karen J. Swift and Marilyn Callahan examine risk and risk assessment in the context of professional practice in child protection, social work, and other human services. They argue that the tools, technologies, and practices used to measure risk to the individual have gone unquestioned...
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...
The Possibility of Politics
A Study in the Political Economy of the Welfare State
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
The Possibility of Politics explores the power of political reform, specifically reform of the modern welfare state. Can reform be effective if limited to cautious and piecemeal interventions that avoid radicalism and revolution? Can it also avoid unwanted consequences? Will the welfare state survive...
Making Welfare Work
Reconstructing Welfare for the Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
The welfare system in the United Kingdom is broken. The number of claims has escalated and so, in consequence, have welfare expenditures. The social system does not encourage welfare recipients to become independent. Half the population of the United Kingdom lives in households drawing one of the...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
This book provides the first comprehensive information and detailed data on the welfare systems of all twenty-seven EU member states and offers the reader an invaluable introduction and basis for comparative welfare research. The introductory chapter summarizes the actual debate about welfare states...
Faith Based
Religious Neoliberalism and the Politics of Welfare in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Faith Based explores how the Religious Right has supported neoliberalism in the United States, bringing a particular focus to welfare—an arena where conservative Protestant politics and neoliberal economic ideas come together most clearly. Through case studies of gospel rescue missions, Habitat...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1966
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1966
At a time when terms like "The Great Society" and "War against Poverty" are commonly used to indicate growing public awareness of welfare as a concern of national and international policy, and when the advantages of welfare are being questioned and debated in many areas of the...
The Transition from Welfare to Work
Processes, Challenges, and Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
How well do you understand the sweeping welfare reforms of the mid-1990s?
The Transition from Welfare to Work: Processes, Challenges, and Outcomes provides a comprehensive examination of the welfare-to-work initiatives that were undertaken just prior to and following the major reform of United...
by Michael Seltzer, Christian Kullberg, Ilmari Rostila
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Listening to the Welfare State presents, for the first time in English, central research findings from recent studies of the welfare systems of Denmark, Norway, Finland and Sweden. The book’s contributors are leading investigators of face-to-face encounters between welfare professionals and clients...