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Creating Citizen-Consumers
Changing Publics and Changing Public Services
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
`This is an illuminating and topical study, which skilfully blends together theoretical and empirical analysis in search of the "citizen-consumer". It should become a key text for all with an interest in public service reform and the "choice" agenda, as well as consumerism and...
From Manual Workers to Wage Laborers
Transformation of the Social Question
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
In this monumental book, sociologist Robert Castel reconstructs the history of what he calls "the social question," or the ways in which both labor and social welfare have been organized from the Middle Ages onward to contemporary industrial society. Throughout, the author identifies two...
Work and the Welfare State
Street-Level Organizations and Workfare Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Work and the Welfare State places street-level organizations at the analytic center of welfare-state politics, policy, and management. This volume offers a critical examination of efforts to change the welfare state to a workfare state by looking at on-the-ground issues in six countries: the US, UK,...
by Collectif
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
Tackling mental health problems of the working-age population is a key issue for labour market and social policies in OECD countries, not just for health systems. Governments increasingly recognise that policy has a major role to play in keeping people with mental health conditions in employment or...
The Investment State
Charting the Future of Social Policy
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2018
Historically, the welfare state of the 20th century, which was built on the foundation of an industrial economy, seems poorly adapted to a 21st-century information age. Socially, profound demographic shifts--especially an aging population, increasing numbers of women in the labor force, and surging...
School Lunch Politics
The Surprising History of America's Favorite Welfare Program
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
Whether kids love or hate the food served there, the American school lunchroom is the stage for one of the most popular yet flawed social welfare programs in our nation's history. School Lunch Politics covers this complex and fascinating part of American culture, from its origins in early twentieth-century...
Praxis for the Poor
Piven and Cloward and the Future of Social Science in Social Welfare
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
Praxis for the Poor puts the relationship of politics to scholarship front and center through an examination of the work of Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward. Piven and Cloward proved that social science could inform social-policy politics in ways that helped energize a movement. Praxis for the...
Obama’s welfare legacy
An assessment of US anti-poverty policies
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
The election of Barack Obama in the midst of the 2008 economic downturn brought hope to millions and presented an opportunity for expanding socio-economic rights. But the Obama administration was consistently constrained by the challenges of divided government, and the now threatened Affordable Care...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
This is a unique and timely survey of the evolving priorities of the British welfare state since its inception in the late 1940s, with an emphasis on how current and future aims and features of welfare provision compare with the ambitions of its original architects. In this book, 15 commentators,...
Family Social Welfare
Helping Troubled Families
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Our changing cultural environment and societal attitudes are subtly but unmistakably altering the personality development of the individual and the functioning of the family. The increasing complexity of the emotional and social problems of their clients is requiring social workers to understand and...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2011
This is a complete reproduction of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, Public Law 93-288 (Stafford Act). This Act constitutes the statutory authority for most Federal disaster response activities especially as they pertain to FEMA and FEMA programs.
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Responding to the Youth Crisis
Developing Capacity to Improve Youth Services: A Case Study from the Marshall Islands
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
The Republic of the Marshall Islands is a relatively new nation, with half of its population under the age of 18 years. This study tells the story of how the Government of the Marshall Islands, with assistance from the Asian Development Bank, set out to strengthen domestic capacity to improve services...
Inequality and Prosperity
Social Europe vs. Liberal America
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
What are the relative merits of the American and European socioeconomic systems? Long-standing debates have heated up in recent years with the expansion of the European Union and increasingly sharp political and cultural differences between the United States and Europe. In Inequality and Prosperity,...
The Politics of Disgust
The Public Identity of the Welfare Queen
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
Winner of the 2006 Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Organized Section Best First Book Award from the American Political Science Association
Winner of the 2006 W.E.B. DuBois Book Award from the National Conference of Black Political Scientists
Ange-Marie Hancock argues that longstanding beliefs about...