Policy Press: 559 books
by Dickinson, Helen, Carey
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
Although leadership and management are seen as central to developing effective integrated working, there is relatively little thoughtful work analysing the relationship between the two sets of ideas. Until now. This updated edition of this essential textbook provides a robust guide to the leadership...
Broken benefits
What's gone wrong with welfare reform
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
Britain is going through the most radical upheaval of the benefits system since its foundations were laid at the end of the 1940s. In Broken Benefits, Sam Royston argues that social security isn’t working, and without a change in direction, it will be even less fair in the future. Drawing on original...
Why we need a Citizen’s Basic Income
The desirability and implementation of an unconditional income
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
In the five years since Money for Everyone was published the idea of a Citizen’s Basic Income has rocketed in interest to an idea whose time has come. In moving the debate on from the desirability of a basic income this fully updated and revised edition now includes comprehensive discussions on...
Reconstructing retirement
Work and welfare in the UK and USA
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Retirement is being ‘reconstructed’, with the UK following the US path of abolishing mandatory retirement and increasing state pension ages. This timely book assesses prospects for work and retirement at age 65-plus in the UK and US. Part 1 explores the shifting ‘policy logics’ in both countries...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Personalisation has become the policy buzz-word of the twenty-first century. Supporters claim it offers service users choice and services attuned to meet their specific needs, moving away from 'one size fits all' state services. In this short form book, part of the Critical and Radical Debates in...
Labour market policies in the era of pervasive austerity
A European perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
This book investigates the changing patterns of labour market and unemployment policies in EU member states during the period since fiscal austerity took hold in 2010 during the deepest postwar recession in Europe. Looking at the big European picture, do we see a convergence or a divergence in labour...
A contemporary history of social work
Learning from the past
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
Drawing on lessons from the recent history of social work to identify how and why it has lost its privilege and influence, this book challenges social work students to understand why social work has failed to maintain its position as a driver of social reform. Bamford looks forward to a new model...
Money for everyone
Why we need a citizen's income
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013
Due to government cuts, the benefits system is currently a hot topic. In this timely book, a Citizen’s Income (sometimes called a Basic Income) is defined as an unconditional, non-withdrawable income for every individual as a right of citizenship. This much-needed book, written by an experienced...
The approaching great transformation
Toward a liveable post carbon economy
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
Joel Magnuson's visionary insights into the decline of the Oil Age and life afterward combine sobering warnings with genuine hope. The facts are hard: global oil deposits will soon peak if they haven't already and the violent race to secure what's left has already begun. Meanwhile, our culture of...
Ferraris for all
In defence of economic progress
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
The growth of the economy and the spread of prosperity are increasingly seen as problematic rather than positive - a trend Daniel Ben-Ami has termed 'growth scepticism'. Prosperity is accused of encourage greed, damaging the environment, causing unhappiness and widening social inequalities. Ferraris...
Demonising the Other
The criminalisation of morality
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Throughout history there has always been an ‘other’, often based on culture, race, gender or class, that has been demonised by the majority. This attribution of negative features onto others affects everyone, but Whitehead challenges the idea that this is an inevitable fact of life. While looking...
Unequal health
The scandal of our times
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Health inequalities are the most important inequalities of all. In the US and the UK these inequalities have now reached an extent not seen for over a century. Most people's health is much better now than then, but the gaps in life expectancy between regions, between cities, and between neighbourhoods...
Taking power back
Putting people in charge of politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Faith in the UK’s political system has reached new lows. Politicians and commentators are lining up to offer answers, but what if the problem goes beyond left and right, trust and bureaucracy? What if the system puts too much power in the hands of politicians in London and not enough in the hands...
Social work and poverty
A critical approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Social work and poverty: A critical approach provides a timely review of the key issues facing social workers and service users in working together to combat poverty.First, it situates social work and poverty within a historical context, then analyses definitions and theories of poverty along with...