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The Enabling State: Modern Welfare Capitalism in America
ISBN: 9780195058949 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the last two decades new arrangements have emerged for the finance and delivery of social welfare in the United States and other industrial democracies. Moving beyond the conventional paradigm of the welfare state, these arrangements form an alternative model. This study details a fresh vision of social welfare transfers--how they are delivered, and whom they benefit. The authors explore the use of private enterprise and market-oriented approaches to the delivery of social provisions, and examine how welfare benefits are derived from the full range of modern social transfers including...
Over the last two decades new arrangements have emerged for the finance and delivery of social welfare in the United States and other industrial democ...
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232,85 zł |
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Ethnicity and Social Work Practice
ISBN: 9780195099317 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Increasingly, social workers are working with clients from diverse backgrounds and cultures. Because ethnicity influences social workers in myriad ways, it is important for them to have a greater understanding of ethnicity and the ways in which it can influence individuals perceptions and responses to problems and treatment. Knowledge and understanding have therefore become critical for effective practice. However, knowledge is not the only factor necessary for establishing social work relationships with clients. To a large extent, the development of these relationships depends upon the...
Increasingly, social workers are working with clients from diverse backgrounds and cultures. Because ethnicity influences social workers in myriad way...
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98,39 zł |
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Reflections on Human Development
ISBN: 9780195101935 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work explores a new development paradigm whose central focus is on human well-being. Increase in income is treated as an essential means, but not as the end of development, and certainly not as the sum of human life. Development policies and strategies are discussed which link economic growth with human lives in various societies. The book also analyzes the evolution of a new Human Development Index which is a far more comprehensive measure of socio-economic progress of nations than the traditional measure of Gross National Product. For the first time, a Political Freedom Index is also...
This work explores a new development paradigm whose central focus is on human well-being. Increase in income is treated as an essential means, but not...
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175,57 zł |
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Kinship Foster Care: Policy, Practice, and Research
ISBN: 9780195109405 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As the number of children in foster care increases and the number of potential foster families declines, more than 31% of all children in state custody are now being placed with extended family members who collect payment for their care. This raises many important and controversial issues regarding the meaning of family, the role of government, and the nature of welfare. Although professional literature on the subject continues to expand, knowledge on this subject remains scarce.
Kinship Foster Care is the first text to offer a comprehensive analysis of what is considered to be... As the number of children in foster care increases and the number of potential foster families declines, more than 31% of all children in state custod...
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290,17 zł |
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Welfare as We Knew It: A Political History of the American Welfare State
ISBN: 9780195113372 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Compared to other rich Western democracies, the U.S. does less to help its citizens adapt to the uncertainties of life in a market economy. In Welfare As We Knew It, Charles Noble offers a groundbreaking explanation of why America is so different. Drawing on research in comparative politics, history, and sociology, he demonstrates that deeply-rooted political factors, not public opinion, have limited what reformers have been able to accomplish. Rich historical analysis covering the Wilson administration to the present is followed by a provocative look at future U. S. social policy....
Compared to other rich Western democracies, the U.S. does less to help its citizens adapt to the uncertainties of life in a market economy. In Wel...
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364,88 zł |
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Institutional Selves: Troubled Identities in a Postmodern World
ISBN: 9780195129281 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Today, identities are created and selves are constructed in more organizational settings than ever before. Institutions large and small-from psychiatric hospitals, schools, and prisons to job clinics, counseling centers, and support groups-are virtually in the business of self construction. New institutions not only produce new forms of identity by presenting additional options for who and what we are but also place practical limits on the range of possible selves we can be.
Institutional Selves acknowledges the socially practical self we live by. It brings together nine... Today, identities are created and selves are constructed in more organizational settings than ever before. Institutions large and small-from psychiatr...
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804,58 zł |
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The Welfare of Children
ISBN: 9780195136708 / Angielski / Twarda / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. According to the United Nations' latest data, the United States has more children living in poverty than any other industrialized nation in the world. More than a fifth of all children grow up in poverty. The poverty rates for African-American and Latino children often exceeds 40 percent. Furthermore, the United States--a country that once pioneered strategies to prevent child abuse and that now spends more money fighting child abuse than any other industrialized country--also has the highest rate of child abuse in the industrialized world. Against this background, Duncan Lindsey, a...
According to the United Nations' latest data, the United States has more children living in poverty than any other industrialized nation in the world....
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419,65 zł |
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The Welfare of Children
ISBN: 9780195136715 / Angielski / Miękka / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. According to the United Nations' latest data, the United States has more children living in poverty than any other industrialized nation in the world. More than a fifth of all children grow up in poverty. The poverty rates for African-American and Latino children often exceeds 40 percent. Furthermore, the United States--a country that once pioneered strategies to prevent child abuse and that now spends more money fighting child abuse than any other industrialized country--also has the highest rate of child abuse in the industrialized world. Against this background, Duncan Lindsey, a...
According to the United Nations' latest data, the United States has more children living in poverty than any other industrialized nation in the world....
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220,40 zł |
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Housing Policy Matters: A Global Analysis
ISBN: 9780195137156 / Angielski / Twarda / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book unifies housing policy by integrating industrialized and developing-country interventions in the housing sector into a comprehensive global framework. One hundred indicators are used to compare housing policies and conditions in 53 countries. Statistical analysis confirms that--after accounting for economic development--enabling housing policies result in improved housing conditions.
This book unifies housing policy by integrating industrialized and developing-country interventions in the housing sector into a comprehensive global ...
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740,87 zł |
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Social Work with Children and Their Families: Pragmatic Foundations
ISBN: 9780195157550 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An extensively revised version of the first edition, this text focuses on the practical foundational knowledge required to practice social work effectively in the complex and fast-changing world of services to children and their families. The core organizing framework consists of eight pragmatic perspectives: combating adultcentrism, family-centered practice, the strengths perspective, respect for diversity and difference, the least restrictive alternative, ecological perspective, organization and financing, and achieving outcomes. Unlike most texts that focus either on direct practice or on...
An extensively revised version of the first edition, this text focuses on the practical foundational knowledge required to practice social work effect...
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489,32 zł |
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Inclusion in the American Dream: Assets, Poverty, and Public Policy
ISBN: 9780195168204 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Inclusion in the American Dream brings together leading scholars and policy experts on the topic of asset building, particularly as this relates to public policy. The typical American household accumulates most of its assets in home equity and retirement accounts, both of which are subsidized through the tax system. But the poor, for the most part, do not participate in these asset accumulation policies. The challenge is to expand the asset-based policy structure so that everyone is included.
Inclusion in the American Dream brings together leading scholars and policy experts on the topic of asset building, particularly as this rela...
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300,13 zł |
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Adolescence: Growing Up in America Today
ISBN: 9780195179613 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Of the 33 million adolescents in the United States, almost 10 million are at risk of failing to become responsible adults. They attend schools that do not serve their needs, lack the support of caring adults, and, as a result, are alienated from mainstream society. African-American and Hispanic children, increasingly segregated in disadvantaged neighborhoods, are particularly vulnerable. In Adolescence: Growing Up in America Today, a follow-up to Joy Dryfoos's landmark volume, Adolescents at Risk (OUP, 1991), Joy Dryfoos and Carol Barkin take a close look at the lives...
Of the 33 million adolescents in the United States, almost 10 million are at risk of failing to become responsible adults. They attend schools that do...
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260,28 zł |
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Crime Victims in Context
ISBN: 9780195329773 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the most up-to-date and thought-provoking undergraduate text on the controversial topic of victimology available. It features a lively, engaging writing style.
Designed for the American college and university market, this book is groundbreaking in its integrated approach to the study of society's crime victims and the forces that influence their victimization. This approach eases instruction by encouraging students to engage in critical thinking about victims--helping students understand how victimization relates to the social context in which victims live. Crime Victims... This is the most up-to-date and thought-provoking undergraduate text on the controversial topic of victimology available. It features a lively, engagi...
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804,58 zł |
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An Edwardian Mixed Doubles: The Bosanquets Versus the Webbs: A Study in British Social Policy 1890-1929
ISBN: 9780198201113 / Angielski / Twarda / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines social policy on poverty and unemployment in Edwardian England as exemplified in the conflict of ideas between two husband-and-wife teams of social theorists: the Fabian socialists, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, and the spokespersons of the Charity Organisation Society, the philosopher Bernard Bosanquet and his wife, Helen. Based on official sources, personal papers, and primary published material, Professor McBriar gives full account of a rousing Edwardian tournament that culminated in the lengthy inquiries of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws of 1905-1909.
This book examines social policy on poverty and unemployment in Edwardian England as exemplified in the conflict of ideas between two husband-and-wife...
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265,27 zł |
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The Problem of Mental Deficiency: Eugenics, Democracy, and Social Policy in Britain C. 1870-1959
ISBN: 9780198206927 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first full study of the great alarm about "mental defectiv es" in Britain between 1870 and 1959, and the resulting policies of se gregation, community care, and sexual sterilization. Mathew Thomson ex amines the origins of these policies in central government and shows h ow they were put into practice by health professionals and local autho rities. He reveals how policy-makers avoided extremist measures such a s compulsory sterilization (introduced in Germany and parts of the US during this period), not for reasons of liberal principle but because of the socially conservative and...
This is the first full study of the great alarm about "mental defectiv es" in Britain between 1870 and 1959, and the resulting policies of se gregatio...
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940,08 zł |
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Citizen, State, and Social Welfare in Britain 1830-1990
ISBN: 9780198227601 / Angielski / Twarda / 482 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers a searching intellectual analysis of social welfare over the last two centuries of dramatic change and development. The late Geoffrey Finlayson explores the changing relations between voluntarism and the state, unravelling the complex interactions of government, commerce, and individuals. Additionally, he examines the concept of citizenship, tracing developing notions of the duties and obligations implicit in the idea of the citizen, as well as the rights and entitlements.
This book offers a searching intellectual analysis of social welfare over the last two centuries of dramatic change and development. The late Geoffrey...
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977,43 zł |
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Homelessness, Aids, and Stigmatization: The Nimby Syndrome in the United States at the End of the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9780198233626 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Here, Lois Takahashi takes a close look at the social forces behind lo cal-level community opposition to human service facilities associated with homelessness and AIDS. Using both quantitative and qualitative da ta and methods, she argues that this community opposition is a product of the changing social construction of stigma, or the ways in which w e define who is acceptable and who is not.
Here, Lois Takahashi takes a close look at the social forces behind lo cal-level community opposition to human service facilities associated with home...
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902,73 zł |
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The Human Rights of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities: Different But Equal
ISBN: 9780198267799 / Angielski / Twarda / 578 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume brings together two important contemporary social movements: human rights and disability rights. It analyses the global struggle to realize equality, dignity, and comprehensive human and civil rights for persons with intellectual disabilities. In twenty original chapters, distinguished contributors from a range of disciplines address the latest international developments in the field. These include international human rights standards and other sources of legal protection, nondiscrimination laws and the economics of equality, preventative technology, remediation and habilitation,...
This volume brings together two important contemporary social movements: human rights and disability rights. It analyses the global struggle to realiz...
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1189,08 zł |
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Protecting the Vulnerable and Promoting Growth
ISBN: 9780198286097 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Following three decades of progress, improvements in the welfare of children and other vulnerable groups worldwide began to falter in the mid-1970s. World recession, and in particular the debt crisis in Latin America and African famine, have seriously affected economic development programs in less developed countries. At the same time, however, large-scale health programs have had a noticeable impact. This study both illustrates the extent of the current crisis and points to the successes to show how welfare policies can--and must--become part of national planning even when the economy is in...
Following three decades of progress, improvements in the welfare of children and other vulnerable groups worldwide began to falter in the mid-1970s. W...
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170,59 zł |
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Adjustment with a Human Face: Volume 2: Country Case Studies
ISBN: 9780198286110 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examining in closer detail the experiences of the ten countries that form the basis of the strategy developed in Volume 1, this volume appraises and contrasts the successes of South Korea, Botswana, Zimbabwe, and Peru with the failures of Brazil, Ghana, Jamaica, and the Philippines in protecting vulnerable populations--children and infants--during economic adjustment. Sri Lanka and Chile are also considered.
Examining in closer detail the experiences of the ten countries that form the basis of the strategy developed in Volume 1, this volume appraises and c...
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703,52 zł |
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