Social Policy category: 9249 books
by Michael Novak, Paul Adams
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
What is social justice? For Friedrich Hayek, it was a mirage-a meaningless, ideological, incoherent, vacuous cliché. He believed the term should be avoided, abandoned, and allowed to die a natural death. For its proponents, social justice is a catchall term that can be used to justify any progressive-sounding...
Common Purpose
Strengthening Families and Neighborhoods to Rebuild America
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
In her previous book, Within Our Reach, renowned Harvard social analyst Lisbeth Schorr examined pilot social programs that were successful in helping disadvantaged youth and families. But as those cutting-edge programs were expanded, the very qualities that had made them initially successful were...
Paid and Unpaid Labour in the Social Economy
An International Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009
The book provides an up-to-date analytical and empirical treatment of some important interactions between paid and unpaid labour and the social economy. The emphasis on the motivations for paid and unpaid labour, and on how these factors contribute to efficiently providing social services, gives...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Given the high rate of social media use by the public, organizations are compelled to engage with key audiences through these outlets. Social media engagement requires organizations to actively participate with public groups, and this highly-interactive exchange raises a new set of ethical concerns...
by Dylan Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
This bookcontends that the impasse of the Left today is in part, a result of an anarchist ‘common sense’ among activists. The author argues that the vital dynamics of anarchism and social movements need to be combined with a reappraisal of the Communist party and state. While cynicism towards...
Social Security and Solidarity in the European Union
Facts, Evaluations, and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Since the 1970s social security in the European Union has been dominated by attempts at reform and cost control. In the last decade of the twentieth century these attempts have been strengthened by the coming European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). This book offers an overview of the social security...
by Peter Swirski
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
The United States today is afflicted with political alienation, militarized violence, institutionalized poverty, and social agony. Worst of all, perhaps, it is afflicted with chronic and acute ahistoricism. America insist on ignoring the context of its present dilemmas. It insists on forgetting what...
The Euromaidan’s Effect on Civil Society
Why and How Ukrainian Social Capital Increased after the Revolution of Dignity
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Sophie Falsini presents a fascinating analysis of the current state and future prospects of Ukrainian civil society in light of the 2013–2014 events. Since then, the country has been shaken by both sociopolitical disorders and a deep humanitarian emergency, also exacerbated by the crisis of internally...
Iran’s Struggles for Social Justice
Economics, Agency, Justice, Activism
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
This interdisciplinary volume offers a range of studies spanning the various historical, political, legal, and cultural features of social justice in Iran, and proposes that the present-day realities of life in Iran could not be farther from the promises of the Iranian Revolution. The ideals of social...
by Jennifer Alsop, Matthew Beaudoin, Jean-Sébastien Boutet
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
People across Canada’s North have created vibrant community institutions to serve a wide range of social and economic needs. Neither state-driven nor profit-oriented, these organizations form a relatively under-studied third sector of the economy. Researchers from the Social Economy Research Network...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2008
In this clear and insightful book, best selling author Malcolm Payne analyses the major elements of social care practice, explaining how caring and social work skills and values are crucial to effective social care.
Through theory, research evidence and skill development, Payne identifies the...
Broadening Horizons
International Exchanges in Social Work
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
While the remit of social work professionals is, in general, locality-based, social work has a long tradition of concern about international issues. Broadening Horizons provides an engaging and original contribution to the debate on how to tackle social work problems on a global scale. Filling both...
Social Control and Deviance
A South Asian Community in Scotland
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
This title was first published in 2000: This book provides an empirical account of social control and deviance in a South Asian community in Scotland. Focusing on Edinburgh’s Pakistani community, the book examines the social order of this particular community and the ways it is maintained. It...
The Social Protection Indicator
Assessing Results for Asia
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is committed to develop and update a comprehensive set of comparable and accessible data to help measure performance of social protection programs in Asia. The Social Protection Indicator (SPI) report presents data on government social protection programs collected...