Social Services Welfare category: 1103 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2005
Improving the well-being of children is more effective when social care professionals work with the children's parents, families and communities. This collection brings together innovative interventions designed to nurture children's health and welfare, and analyses which types of programmes are most...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2005
Almost twenty years ago, conceptual work began in the United Kingdom on what was to become the international Looking After Children initiative. Looking After Children has had a profound influence on child welfare in Canada and some fifteen other countries, including the UK, Australia, Sweden, and...
by Parker, Roy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
This collection of 12 new and revised essays on child care and children’s services, written by leading child welfare historian Roy Parker, draws on his lifetime of research in this area. By exploring various topics these essays explain significant political, economic, legal and ideological aspects...
The Politics of Welfare State Transformation in Germany
Still a Semi-Sovereign State?
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
How can we best analyse contemporary welfare state change? And how can we explain and understand the politics of it? This book contributes to these questions both empirically and theoretically by concentrating on one of the least likely cases for welfare state transformation in Europe. It analyzes...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
In this singular collection, indigenous experts describe the social welfare systems of fifteen East Asian and Pacific Island nations and locales. Vastly understudied, these lands offer key insight into the successes and failures of Western and native approaches to social work, suggesting new directions...
by Beng-huat Chua, Chyong-Fan Ko, Kyeung-Mi Oh
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2010
The Crisis of Welfare in East Asia adopts a unique and critical perspective on contemporary social welfare policies in East Asia. This edited volume reflects on current welfare theories and challenges the dominant productivist ideology that overemphasizes the influence of work and family. James Lee...
Postcommunist Welfare States
Reform Politics in Russia and Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In the early 1990s, the countries of the former Soviet Bloc faced an urgent need to reform the systems by which they delivered broad, basic social welfare to their citizens. Inherited systems were inefficient and financially unsustainable. Linda J. Cook here explores the politics and policy of social...
The Role of Business in the Development of the Welfare State and Labor Markets in Germany
Containing Social Reforms
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
This book assesses the role of employers in the development of welfare state and labour market institutions. Building on an in-depth analysis of Germany, a market economy known to often provide economic benefits to firms, this book explores one of the most contested issues in the comparative and historical...
Welfare State Transformation in the Yugoslav Successor States
From Social to Unequal
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Welfare states are the product of economic, political and social interactions, and undergo changes as these interactions transform. Existing welfare state theories mainly tend to explain the emergence and development of the welfare state in the western, industrialized and capitalist world. While the...
Weak Courts, Strong Rights
Judicial Review and Social Welfare Rights in Comparative Constitutional Law
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2009
Unlike many other countries, the United States has few constitutional guarantees of social welfare rights such as income, housing, or healthcare. In part this is because many Americans believe that the courts cannot possibly enforce such guarantees. However, recent innovations in constitutional design...
Welfare Reform in East Asia
Towards Workfare
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
In many Western countries, social welfare payments are increasingly being made conditional on recipients doing voluntary work or attending job training courses, a system known as "welfare-to-work" or "workfare". Although social welfare in Asia is very different to the West, with...
Welfare States in Transition
National Adaptations in Global Economies
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 1996
This wide-ranging comparative analysis of contemporary and future changes in welfare states looks at the different trajectories of the welfare states of Europe, North America, the Antipodes, and the emerging scenarios in Latin America, East Asia and Central and Eastern Europe.
Leading experts...
Exploring welfare debates
Key concepts and questions
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
Visually and pedagogically rich, this wide-ranging introduction to key concepts and debates in welfare uses an innovative, question-based narrative to highlight the importance of theory to understanding welfare. In particular, it: • Introduces concepts that are core to how policy is formulated and...
Pandora's Dilemma
Theories of Social Welfare for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
What are the challenges facing social welfare in America? Theories of stakeholders, the policy process, electoral politics, the precariat, child welfare, online education, the devolution of the welfare state, and its sequel, the investment state, illuminate critical factors determining the future...