wyszukanych pozycji: 21
Towards a More Equal Society?: Poverty, Inequality and Policy Since 1997
ISBN: 9781847422019 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. When New Labour came to power in 1997, its leaders asked for it to be judged after ten years on its success in making Britain 'a more equal society'. As it approaches the end of an unprecedented third term in office, this book asks whether Britain has indeed moved in that direction. The highly successful earlier volume "A more equal society?" was described by Polly Toynbee as "the LSE's mighty judgement on inequality." Now this second volume by the same team of authors provides an independent assessment of the success or otherwise of New Labour's policies over a longer period. It provides: ....
When New Labour came to power in 1997, its leaders asked for it to be judged after ten years on its success in making Britain 'a more equal society'. ...
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147,14 zł |
Making Social Policy Work
ISBN: 9781861349576 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Social policy is now central to political debate in Britain. This collection of essays by a distinguished panel of leading social policy academics asks what has been achieved by efforts to improve services and reduce poverty, and what is needed to deliver more effective and popular services to all and increase social justice.
Social policy is now central to political debate in Britain. This collection of essays by a distinguished panel of leading social policy academics ask...
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171,49 zł |
New Inequalities: The Changing Distribution of Income and Wealth in the UK
ISBN: 9780521553261 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 422 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Starting in the late 1970s and gathering pace in the 1980s, the gaps between rich and poor in the United Kingdom have widened. This book contains results from a major research program that investigated the varied factors that led to this major social and economic change. Aspects covered include the changing shape of the income distributions as a whole, the rising earnings differentials between high paid and low paid, the changing contribution of women's earnings to family incomes, spatial polarization between rich and poor neighborhoods, and the links between income and wealth distributions.
Starting in the late 1970s and gathering pace in the 1980s, the gaps between rich and poor in the United Kingdom have widened. This book contains resu...
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554,12 zł |
Good Times, Bad Times: The Welfare Myth of Them and Us
ISBN: 9781447320036 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Two-thirds of UK government spending now goes to the welfare state, and where the money is spent healthcare, education, pensions, benefits is the center of political and public debate. Much of that debate is dominated by the myth that the population is divided into those who benefit from the welfare state and those who pay into it. But this groundbreaking book, written by a top UK social policy expert, uses extensive research and survey evidence to challenge that view. It shows that our complex and ever-changing lives mean that all of us rely on the welfare state throughout our lifetimes, not...
Two-thirds of UK government spending now goes to the welfare state, and where the money is spent healthcare, education, pensions, benefits is the cent...
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77,42 zł |
Introduction to Systemic and Family Therapy
ISBN: 9780230224445 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Ideas drawn from family and systemic therapy form the basis of many interventions in mental health and childcare. This brief introduction offers an ideal starting-point for non specialists and new students keen to develop their skills. Taking a step-by-step experiential approach, it explores key concepts in vivid practice context.
Ideas drawn from family and systemic therapy form the basis of many interventions in mental health and childcare. This brief introduction offers an id...
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178,68 zł |
Rescripting Family Expereince: The Therapeutic Influence of John Byng-Hall
ISBN: 9781861562630 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. John Byng-Hall is a distinguished, pioneering British family therapist, whose publications and presentations have established him internationally. An associate of John Bowlby at the Tavistock Clinic London (who is credited with the beginnings of family therapy), he has integrated Bowlby's attachment theories with his own ideas of family scripts and myths into family systematic therapy.
John Byng-Hall is a distinguished, pioneering British family therapist, whose publications and presentations have established him internationally. An ...
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304,07 zł |
Beveridge and Social Security: An International Retrospective
ISBN: 9780198288060 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Beveridge Report of 1942 captured the public imagination with its principles of universal social insurance in Britain. Beveridge's idea was to use universal benefits to remove the poverty caused by contingencies such as unemployment or disability. This book examines the underlying assumptions of Beveridge's scheme, the circumstances surrounding its implementation, and its short- and long-term effects on social security in Britain and around the world. The contributors argue that the reality, over the past fifty years, has been vastly different from the principles and vision Beveridge...
The Beveridge Report of 1942 captured the public imagination with its principles of universal social insurance in Britain. Beveridge's idea was to use...
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265,27 zł |
Good Times, Bad Times: The Welfare Myth of Them and Us
ISBN: 9781447336471 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Two-thirds of UK government spending now goes to the welfare state, and where that money is spent healthcare, education, pensions, benefits is at the heart of major political and public debate. Much of that debate is dominated by the myth that the population is divided into those who benefit from the welfare state and those who pay into it.But this groundbreaking book fully revised in this second edition with current data, discussion ofkey policy changes, and a new preface reflecting on thechangedUK political contextfollowing the 2015 election and 2016 Brexit vote uses extensive research and...
Two-thirds of UK government spending now goes to the welfare state, and where that money is spent healthcare, education, pensions, benefits is at the ...
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72,56 zł |
A More Equal Society?: New Labour, Poverty, Inequality and Exclusion
ISBN: 9781861345776 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This major new book provides, for the first time, a detailed evaluation of policies on poverty and social exclusion since 1997, and their effects. Bringing together leading experts in the field, it considers the challenges the government has faced, the policies chosen and the targets set in order to assess results. Drawing on research from the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, and on external evaluations, the book vbTab]asks how children, older people, poor neighbourhoods, ethnic minorities and other vulnerable groups have fared under New Labour and seeks to assess the government both...
This major new book provides, for the first time, a detailed evaluation of policies on poverty and social exclusion since 1997, and their effects. Bri...
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141,89 zł |
Making Social Policy Work: Essays in Honour of Howard Glennerster
ISBN: 9781861349583 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Social policy is now central to political debate in Britain. What has been achieved by efforts to improve services and reduce poverty? What is needed to deliver more effective and popular services to all and increase social justice? How can we make social policy work? These are some of the questions discussed in this new and wide-ranging collection of essays by a distinguished panel of leading social policy academics. The book covers key issues in contemporary social policy, particularly concentrating on recent changes. It examines the history and goals of social policy as well as its...
Social policy is now central to political debate in Britain. What has been achieved by efforts to improve services and reduce poverty? What is needed ...
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442,63 zł |
Wealth in the UK: Distribution, Accumulation, and Policy
ISBN: 9780199678303 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book examines key issues connected with the distribution of personal wealth in the UK. It examines why wealth is now such an important factor in social differences and public policy. It presents the most recent information on current wealth inequalities and a detailed discussion of trends in the distribution of wealth. It uses newly available data to compare wealth inequalities in the UK with the USA, Canada and Sweden. It uses longitudinal data, which track the same people over time, to examine trajectories in wealth accumulation over the decade to 2005 and inequalities in inheritances...
This book examines key issues connected with the distribution of personal wealth in the UK. It examines why wealth is now such an important factor in ...
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653,72 zł |
New Inequalities: The Changing Distribution of Income and Wealth in the UK
ISBN: 9780521556989 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Starting in the late 1970s and gathering pace in the 1980s, the gaps between rich and poor in the United Kingdom have widened. This book contains results from a major research program that investigated the varied factors that led to this major social and economic change. Aspects covered include the changing shape of the income distributions as a whole, the rising earnings differentials between high paid and low paid, the changing contribution of women's earnings to family incomes, spatial polarization between rich and poor neighborhoods, and the links between income and wealth distributions.
Starting in the late 1970s and gathering pace in the 1980s, the gaps between rich and poor in the United Kingdom have widened. This book contains resu...
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210,44 zł |
Wealth in the UK: Distribution, Accumulation, and Policy
ISBN: 9780198729402 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book examines key issues connected with the distribution of personal wealth in the UK. It studies why wealth is now such an important factor in social differences and public policy. It presents the most recent information on current wealth inequalities and a detailed discussion of trends in the distribution of wealth. It uses newly available data to compare wealth inequalities in the UK with the USA, Canada, and Sweden. It uses longitudinal data, which track the same people over time, to examine trajectories in wealth accumulation over the decade to 2005 and inequalities in inheritances...
This book examines key issues connected with the distribution of personal wealth in the UK. It studies why wealth is now such an important factor in s...
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188,02 zł |
Inequality and the State
ISBN: 9780199276646 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Since the late 1970s, Britain has become a more unequal society. This book analyzes the dramatic widening of the income distribution, the growth of poverty, and the factors that have driven them. It examines how government spending and the taxes that pay for it affect people's incomes, why they take the forms they do, what we think of them, how things have changed since New Labour came to power in 1997, and the future pressures that any government will face as the population ages.
Since the late 1970s, Britain has become a more unequal society. This book analyzes the dramatic widening of the income distribution, the growth of po...
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222,88 zł |
Public Policy for the 21st Century: Social and Economic Essays in Memory of Henry Neuburger
ISBN: 9781861342683 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Public policy for the 21st century is a collection of essays in memory of Henry Neuburger, an economist whose career spanned half a dozen government departments, and who was for much of the 1980s an adviser to the leadership of the Labour Party. His original contributions to economic policy analysis across the field of public policy are the starting point of the essays, whose contributors between them cover the same broad span of economic policy. The essays look forward to the new century and together form an introduction to key issues in contemporary policy making.
Public policy for the 21st century is a collection of essays in memory of Henry Neuburger, an economist whose career spanned half a dozen government d...
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415,01 zł |
Heilige Sehnsucht: Lieder und Texte
ISBN: 9783746780610 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2018 / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Tauchen Sie ein in die Sehnsucht unserer Glaubensväter nach der Berührung Gottes, die das gesamte Sein verwandelt, nach göttlicher Liebe, Freiheit, Reinheit und Heiligkeit durch das Blut Jesu Christi.
Tauchen Sie ein in die Sehnsucht unserer Glaubensväter nach der Berührung Gottes, die das gesamte Sein verwandelt, nach göttlicher Liebe, Freiheit,...
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39,25 zł |
The Fifth Leicestershire - A Record of the 1/5th Battalion the Leicestershire Regiment, T.F., During the War, 1914-1919. (WWI Centenary Series)
ISBN: 9781473314238 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) ""No literary merit is claimed for this book. It is intended to be a diary of our progress as a Battalion since mobilisation until the signing of peace, and the return of the Colours to Loughborough. I have written the first chapter, the remainder, including the maps, has been done by Captain J.D. Hills.""
This book is part of the World War One Centenary series; creating, collating and reprinting new and old works of poetry, fiction, autobiography and analysis. The series forms a commemorative tribute to mark the passing of one of the worlds bloodiest wars, offering new perspectives on this... ""No literary merit is claimed for this book. It is intended to be a diary of our progress as a Battalion since mobilisation until the signing of peac...
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151,98 zł |
Decent Incomes for All: Improving Policies in Europe
ISBN: 9780190849696 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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349,93 zł |
Understanding Social Exclusion
ISBN: 9780199251940 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book explores the issue of social exclusion. It asks three main questions: How can social exclusion be measured? What are its main determinants or influences? And what policies can reduce social exclusion? The authors aim to consider how a focus on social exclusion may alter the policy questions that are most relevant by fostering debate in government, research, and academic circles.
This book explores the issue of social exclusion. It asks three main questions: How can social exclusion be measured? What are its main determinants o...
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265,27 zł |
Social Security in Developing Countries
ISBN: 9780198860150 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The term 'social security' has a very different meaning in underdeveloped countries and is best understood as poverty alleviation. This work seeks to define social security in its various forms and to examine what types of programmes are most suitable for developing countries. The authors review current literature on the subject. Some chapters explore broad themes, while others describe social security provisions in various regions in South Asia, China, Latin America, and Southern Africa. Western systems are compared and broad assessments made of the traditional social security systems in...
The term 'social security' has a very different meaning in underdeveloped countries and is best understood as poverty alleviation. This work seeks to ...
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155,65 zł |