Social Policy category: 9249 books
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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...
World Population Policies
Their Origin, Evolution, and Impact
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
This book examines the history behind the formulation, implementation, and evaluation of population policies in the more developed, the less developed, and the least developed countries from 1950 until today, as well as their future prospects. It links population policies with the theories of the...
Making Work, Making Trouble
The Social Regulation of Sexual Labour
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2009
Thoroughly updated to include events that have occurred in the decade since it was originally published, this second edition of Making Work, Making Trouble re-establishes this work as the pre-eminent study of prostitution in Canada. Detailing the various forces that have presented prostitution as...
Corporate Social Responsibility - Mythen und Maßnahmen
Unternehmen verantwortungsvoll führen, Regulierungslücken schließen
Language: German
Release Date: January 9, 2014
In Zeiten der Globalisierung und Massenproduktion rückt verantwortungsvolle Unternehmensführung immer mehr in das Bewusstsein der Unternehmen. Damit Corporate Social Responsibility in Organisationen nicht als reine PR-Maßnahme angesehen wird, braucht es jedoch zunächst ein tiefes Verständnis,...
Crafting Citizenship
Negotiating Tensions in Modern Society
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
According to politics and the media, immigration and individualization drive citizens apart but in neighbourhoods social life is often thriving, depending on the talents of particular citizens or of local institutions. This book examines new forms of active citizenship and the actual conditions that hinder social cohesion.
Scandinavian Common Sense
Policies to Tackle Social Inequalities in Health
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
At a time when austerity is claimed by some to be the only answer to today’s economic woes, a close look at the best practices used in Scandinavia is edifying. Decision makers everywhere dispose of ample evidence showing that social determinants have an impact on health and wellbeing. Yet governments...
Mexican Solidarity
Citizen Participation and Volunteering
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2009
During the nearly 20 years of its existence, the Centro Mexicano para la Filantropía, A.C. (Cemefi, acronym in Spanish for the Mexican Center for Philanthropy) has promoted a varied agenda of research about civil society in Mexico. Cemefi has produced and published information on the characteristics...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
Exploring the most topical issues around migration and integration in relation to Britain, this book, now in paperback, examines people smuggling and the elite labour migration that is becoming a feature of Britain. It also examines the concepts of social capital, social cohesion and Britishness that are being used to critique multiculturalism.
by Michal Reiman
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
The author analyzes modern Russian history from a new perspective. Due to the ideological heritage of the XIXth and XXth centuries, the social settings of the sociopolitical history of the USSR (1917–1945) have not been fully identified. Detailed examination of ideological and political concepts...
by Floyd Weatherspoon
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
African-American Males and the US Justice System of Marginalization provides an overview of the economic and social status of African-American males in America, which continues to deteriorate at an alarming rate. Weatherspoon posits that in every American institutional system, from birth to death,...
The Development State
Aid, Culture and Civil Society in Tanzania
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
How has development affected the practices of the state in Africa? How has the development state become the basis of social organisation? How do Tanzanians position themselves to obtain aid money to effect change in their personal lives? Financial aid flows have entrenched an economy of intervention...
Critical Theory and Disability
A Phenomenological Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Critical Theory and Disability explores social and ontological issues encountered by present-day disabled people, applying ideas from disability studies and phenomenology. It focuses on disabling contexts in order to highlight and criticize the ontological assumptions of contemporary society, particularly...
Social Movements in Chile
Organization, Trajectories, and Political Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
This book presents rich empirical analyses of the most important movements in Chile’s post-transition era: the Student Movement, the Mapuche Movement, the Labor Movement, the Feminist Movement, and the Environmental Movement. The chapters illuminate the processes that led to their emergence, and...
Reclaiming the Public Sphere
Communication, Power and Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
This volume brings together a range of different specialists in the arts and cultural industries, as well as international academics and public intellectuals, to explore how media and communication practices for social change are currently being reconfigured in both conceptual and rhetorical terms.