Social Policy category: 9249 books
Subalterns and Social Protest
History from Below in the Middle East and North Africa
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
The articles in this collection provide an alternative view of Middle Eastern history by focusing on the oppressed and the excluded, offering a challenge to the usual elite narratives. The collection is unique in its historical depth - ranging from the medieval period to the present - and its geographical...
Probation and Social Work on Trial
Violent Offenders and Child Abusers
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
The Baby Peter and Dano Sonnex incidents were high profile cases in which two key public services, namely child protection and probation, both failed in their tasks of protection of the victims and the public. In this book the author graphically describes media and political reactions and then proceeds...
Jean Jaurès
The Inner Life of Social Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
Jean Jaurès was a towering intellectual and political leader of the democratic Left at the turn of the twentieth century, but he is little remembered today outside of France, and his contributions to political thought are little studied anywhere. In Jean Jaurès: The Inner Life of Social Democracy,...
The Least Among Us
Waging the Battle for the Vulnerable
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
The outspoken Connecticut congresswoman provides “a powerful case for protecting and expanding America’s safety net” (Elizabeth Warren).
Cynical politicians like Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump argue that the people of the United States would be better off without food stamps, Obamacare,...
Finding Home in the Promised Land
A Personal History of Homelessness and Social Exile
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
In 2013, a violent crime left Jane Harris seriously injured and tumbling down the social ladder toward homelessness -- for the second time in her life -- leading her to question the underlying conditions that could allow this to happen in a country like Canada. Finding Home in the Promised Land is...
by M. Hickman, N. Mai, H. Crowley
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Based on a flagship research project for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's Immigration and Inclusion programme, this book argues that social cohesion is achieved through people (new arrivals as well as the long-term settled) being able to resolve the conflicts and tensions within their day-to-day lives in ways that they find positive and viable.
by United Nations
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
This publication builds on the knowledge of the situation of older persons in our region at a time unlike any other in the subjects history in the framework of the United Nations. One of the books main contributions is the link between ageing and gender equality, using an innovative conceptual approach...
Everybody Else
Adoption and the Politics of Domestic Diversity in Postwar America
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
In the popular imagination, the twenty years after World War II are associated with simpler, happier, more family-focused living. We think of stereotypical baby boom families like the Cleavers—white, suburban, and well on their way to middle-class affluence. For these couples and their children,...
Elites in Transition
Elite Research in Central and Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
"Who rules in Eastern Europe?" became a fundamental question for western researchers and other observers after communist regimes were established in the region, and it gained further importance as state socialism expanded into Central Europe after the Second World War. A political order...
Analysing China's Population
Social Change in a New Demographic Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
Based on China’s recently released 2010 population census data, this edited volume analyses the most recent demographic trends in China, in the context of significant social and economic upheavals. The editor and the expert contributors describe the main features of China’s demography, and focus...
by Neil Bateman
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
Practising Welfare Rights aims to improve awareness among people working in social work and advice agencies about the skills required for effective welfare rights work, and offers guidance for managers and other professionals about how to develop a welfare rights service.
Written by a well-known...
The Coordinator:
Managing High-risk, High-Consequence Social Interactions in an Unfamiliar Environment
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
In The Coordinator, Ellis Amdur and Robert Hubal share their decades of experience working with law enforcement and military personnel in training and assessing social interaction skills, particularly in 'high-risk, high-consequence' situations. Amdur and Hubal are pioneers who, along with their many...
Dilemmas of Care in the Nordic Welfare State
Continuity and Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
The Nordic welfare model has become an ideal in feminist literature and in welfare state studies. This has heightened scientific and political interest in the model and its key aspects, including the provision and production of care as public responsibility. In this engaging volume, contributors from...
Crime, Justice and Social Democracy
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
This is a provocative collection of timely reflections on the state of social democracy and its inextricable links to crime and justice. Authored by some of the world's leading thinkers from the UK, US, Canada and Australia, the volume provides an understanding of socially sustainable societies.