Modern family life raises tough questions: Who should be responsible for children's daily care? How can their financial support be fairly allocated between parents? Should extended family members be paid for their help? Can women have full careers and also be good mothers? In Raising Children, leading scholars take on these questions and more in order to critically assess policy responses to the changing needs of the modern family. As parents struggle to balance professional and personal demands, choose schools for their children, and sort through constantly updated medical and psychological...
Modern family life raises tough questions: Who should be responsible for children's daily care? How can their financial support be fairly allocated be...
Since the advent of the European Union, politicians have increasingly emphasized the notion of a European social model as an alternative to the American form of market capitalism, which is seen as promoting economic growth without regard for solidarity and social progress. As this political discourse has advanced, social scientists and academic policy analysts have raised questions concerning the extent to which the E.U. and U.S. social models exist outside the minds of diplomats and politicians seeking to stitch together a common identity. How much unity is there still within Europe after...
Since the advent of the European Union, politicians have increasingly emphasized the notion of a European social model as an alternative to the Americ...
The question of how best to combine work and family life has led to lively debates in recent years. Both a lifestyle and a policy issue, it has been addressed psychologically, socially, and economically, and conclusions have been hotly contested. But as Neil Gilbert shows in this penetrating and provocative book, we haven't looked closely enough at how and why these questions are framed, or who benefits from the proposed answers.
A Mother's Work takes a hard look at the unprecedented rise in childlessness, along with the outsourcing of family care and household production, which...
The question of how best to combine work and family life has led to lively debates in recent years. Both a lifestyle and a policy issue, it has bee...
A conceptual framework for analyzing social welfare policyDimensions of Social Welfare Policy provides a comprehensive and widely-used framework for analyzing social welfare policies.The text encourages readers to develop their own thoughts on social welfare policy and to explore policy alternatives. Theoretical points are illustrated with examples from a cross-section of program areas including income maintenance, child welfare, model cities, day care, community action, and mental health. The text familiarizes students with the content of major...
A conceptual framework for analyzing social welfare policyDimensions of Social Welfare Policy provides a comprehensi...
It is said that greed fuels capitalism and socialism feeds on envy. But what happens in a stable society when a successful economy generates material progress for one population sector, while simultaneously creating income inequality and poverty for another sector? While this has long been a classic debate for economists, Neil Gilbert, a social welfare theorist, offers a new take. In this landmark work, Gilbert addresses the long-standing tensions between capitalism and the progressive spirit and challenges the contemporary progressive outlook on the failures of capitalism. In doing this,...
It is said that greed fuels capitalism and socialism feeds on envy. But what happens in a stable society when a successful economy generates material ...
