ilość książek w kategorii: 7818
The European Union and the Social Dimension of Globalization: How the Eu Influences the World
ISBN: 9780415466943 / Angielski / Twarda / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume provides a comprehensive account of the European Union's social role in the world, assessing the EU's ability to shape the social aspect of globalization from both law and political science perspectives. Focusing explicitly on the EU, the authors address the extent of coherence between the Union's international social objectives compared with the activities of the International Labour Organization (ILO) and with other EU foreign policy goals. Various dimensions of Europe's global social role are addressed, including:
This volume provides a comprehensive account of the European Union's social role in the world, assessing the EU's ability to shape the social aspec... |
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706,63 zł |
Childhood, Youth, and Social Work in Transformation: Implications for Policy and Practice
ISBN: 9780231141406 / Angielski / Twarda / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Social workers today not only face competing claims concerning the rights and needs of children and youth, but they also confront contradictions between policy and practice. Social workers are expected to fight for the best interests of the child, even though financial support for children's welfare and education grows scarce. They are asked to save "children at risk," while, at the same time, they are urged to protect communities from "risky children"; and they are encouraged to "leave no child behind," while also implementing "zero tolerance" policies to keep educational environments free...
Social workers today not only face competing claims concerning the rights and needs of children and youth, but they also confront contradictions betwe...
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484,93 zł |
Health and Growth
ISBN: 9780821376591 / Angielski / Miękka / 189 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. - Does investing in health raise economic growth? - Can governments achieve rapid growth or high incomes without investing in health? - What are the options and benefits of different analytic approaches to measuring the causal link between health and growth? - Have medical advances influenced life expectancy levels? - Do health investments lead to higher individual productivity? - Why are investments in early childhood development and nutrition important? - How do governments invest in improving health status? - Where should governments invest in health to improve the welfare and health...
- Does investing in health raise economic growth? - Can governments achieve rapid growth or high incomes without investing in health? - What are the o...
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245,62 zł |
When Communities Confront Corporations: Comparing Shell's Presence in Ireland and Nigeria
ISBN: 9781906704049 / Angielski / Twarda / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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143,59 zł |
For All of My Life
ISBN: 9781434386229 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Rooms to let - No Niggers, No Irish and No dogs" This sign, openly displayed in England in the 1950's, symbolises a time associated with overt racism and discrimination. It was during this period, that Betty Jones, a twenty year old white English woman did the unthinkable; she fell in love with an African man. 'For All of My Life' is the remarkable journey of a resilient and spirited woman who at the age of 64 was determined to tell her story. The book gives you a glimpse of the life of a woman from a working class Northern background, who followed her heart to marry the man she loved....
"Rooms to let - No Niggers, No Irish and No dogs" This sign, openly displayed in England in the 1950's, symbolises a time associated with overt racism...
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81,31 zł |
Counselling in a Multicultural Society
ISBN: 9780761950646 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book aptly describes, explores and hits the core of very complex issues around race, racism, culture, difference, dual identity, stereotypes, immigration and alienation... It is also very thought-provoking, raising questions about one's own ability to work more flexibly in the consulting room with clients of different backgrounds... It is excellent for a directory of resources, useful for training purposes and an enabling role model for good practice in counselling in a multicultural society. I enjoyed it... It should be a required handbook on the shelf of every caring professional...
The book aptly describes, explores and hits the core of very complex issues around race, racism, culture, difference, dual identity, stereotypes, immi...
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817,67 zł |
The National Interest in Question: Foreign Policy in Multicultural Societies
ISBN: 9780199652761 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For three decades multiculturalism has been the focus of fierce debates. At the same time Europeans have worried, at the national level and at that of the European Union, about how to relate to a world in which their influence has been steadily reducing. But the two discussions, on society and on foreign policy, have rarely intersected. The events of 11 September 2001 did shock the citizens of Western countries into an awareness that international politics could literally explode onto their home streets, and generated fear and suspicion about and among minority groups. But the excessive focus...
For three decades multiculturalism has been the focus of fierce debates. At the same time Europeans have worried, at the national level and at that of...
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556,20 zł |
The Activation Dilemma: Reconciling the Fairness and Effectiveness of Minimum Income Schemes in Europe
ISBN: 9781847420466 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The activation of social welfare recipients has been, and still is, a central issue in the development of social and employment policies in Europe. This ambitious book explores the employment effectiveness of minimum income schemes, and provides the first comprehensive examination of its dependency on how the rights and obligations of the recipients are defined.The book argues that the right to a minimum income can only be adequately justified with reference to the individual's right to personal development. Combining political theory and policy analysis, the author draws on evidence from...
The activation of social welfare recipients has been, and still is, a central issue in the development of social and employment policies in Europe. Th...
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434,02 zł |
Insecurity and Welfare Regimes in Asia, Africa and Latin America: Social Policy in Development Contexts
ISBN: 9780521087995 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written by a team of internationally respected experts, this book explores the conditions under which social policy--defined as the public pursuit of secure welfare--operates in the poorer regions of the world. Making an important contribution by breaking away from the traditional focus on Europe and North America, it develops a new conceptual framework for understanding different types of welfare regimes in a range of countries of Asia, Latin America and Africa.
Written by a team of internationally respected experts, this book explores the conditions under which social policy--defined as the public pursuit of ...
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216,98 zł |
Social Welfare and Eu Law
ISBN: 9781841134901 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The assumption that member states of the European Union enjoyed exclusive competence over social provision has been shaken by the realization that they are now -semi-sovereign welfare states- whose policy choices are subject to increasing scrutiny under Community law. This book seeks to take stock of how Community membership is reshaping the legal environment of welfare provision across Europe. Topics covered include: the evolving economic and governance debates about Community intervention in social rights; the relationship between public services and Community competition and state aids...
The assumption that member states of the European Union enjoyed exclusive competence over social provision has been shaken by the realization that the...
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429,03 zł |
Understanding Social Citizenship: Themes and Perspectives for Policy and Practice
ISBN: 9781861344168 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Understanding social citizenship provides students with the knowledge and background necessary to understand the concept of citizenship in relation to UK, EU and global welfare institutions; covers a range of philosophical, historical and contemporary welfare debates and issues; explores social citizenship in relation to questions of inclusion and exclusion; combines analysis of competing perspectives on social citizenship with detailed discussion of social policies and uses easy-to-digest text boxes to aid learning and teaching. The book is essential reading for undergraduates in social...
Understanding social citizenship provides students with the knowledge and background necessary to understand the concept of citizenship in relation to...
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361,23 zł |
Housing, Urban Governance and Anti-Social Behaviour: Perspectives, Policy and Practice
ISBN: 9781861346841 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is the first comprehensive volume exploring an issue of growing importance to policy makers, academics, housing practitioners and students. It brings together contributions from the most prominent scholars in the field to provide a range of theoretical perspectives, critical analysis and empirical research findings about the role of housing and urban governance in addressing anti-social behaviour.Contributors assess constructions of anti-social behaviour in policy discourse, identify how housing is increasingly central to the governance of anti-social behaviour and critically...
This book is the first comprehensive volume exploring an issue of growing importance to policy makers, academics, housing practitioners and students. ...
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151,37 zł |
Unwrapping the European Social Model
ISBN: 9781861347985 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The notion of the European Social Model (ESM) has been one of the fastest growing in European political and academic discourse in recent years. It is conventionally used to describe the European experience of simultaneously promoting sustainable economic growth and social cohesion. However, the concept has suffered from a lack of clear definition. And where definitions have been found in the literature, they do not necessarily converge.This book presents the outcome of a project coordinated by the European Trade Union Institute in which experts from different countries and social scientific...
The notion of the European Social Model (ESM) has been one of the fastest growing in European political and academic discourse in recent years. It is ...
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456,87 zł |
Helfer der Armen – Hüter der Öffentlichkeit / Guardians of the Poor – Custiodians of the Public: Die Wohlfahrtsgeschichte Osteuropas 1900-1960 / Welfare History in Eastern Europe
ISBN: 9783938094587 / Angielski / Miękka / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This bi-lingual flip-over book, written in English and German, describes the results of case studies about the history of social work in Eastern Europe between 1900 and 1960 in the countries of Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Russia, and Slovenia. Topics include governmental social policy, institutions of civil society, social movements, charity activities of churches and communities, mutual aid in family and neighborhood networks, professional development and training, and international influences.
This bi-lingual flip-over book, written in English and German, describes the results of case studies about the history of social work in Eastern Europ...
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175,07 zł |
Restructuring Welfare Organizations in Europe: From Democracy to Good Management?
ISBN: 9780230217324 / Angielski / Twarda / 219 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Providing a new comparative analysis of the changes which have radically questioned the 'old' organizational arrangements of the delivery of welfare servicessince the early 1980s, this bookargues that new managerial accountability regimes severely undermine the democratic foundations of the welfare state in Europe."
Providing a new comparative analysis of the changes which have radically questioned the 'old' organizational arrangements of the delivery of welfare s...
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194,08 zł |
Child Care and Preschool Development in Europe: Institutional Perspectives
ISBN: 9780230537446 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explains the differences between European countries in the supply and forms of public child care and preschool provisions by reference to the historical context in which these forms originated and to the institutional constraints underlying their development.
This book explains the differences between European countries in the supply and forms of public child care and preschool provisions by reference to th...
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388,20 zł |
Family Group Conferences in Child
ISBN: 9780632049226 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Professionals must increasingly focus on the importance of family involvement in making decisions about the welfare of a child who is abused or needing care. Family Group Conferences has evolved as a positive means to encourage good links between these children and their families, and to help children within the family environment--instead of taking the children out of their homes. This book assists professionals to put the planning and theory of these conferences into practice. It examines the context, origins and development of the conferences, using the research and experiences of social...
Professionals must increasingly focus on the importance of family involvement in making decisions about the welfare of a child who is abused or needin...
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260,07 zł |
Class War?: What Americans Really Think about Economic Inequality
ISBN: 9780226644547 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recent battles in Washington over how to fix America's fiscal failures strengthened the widespread impression that economic issues sharply divide average citizens. Indeed, many commentators split Americans into two opposing groups: uncompromising supporters of unfettered free markets and advocates for government solutions to economic problems. But such dichotomies, Benjamin Page and Lawrence Jacobs contend, ring false. In Class War? they present compelling evidence that most Americans favor free enterprise and practical government programs to distribute wealth more... Recent battles in Washington over how to fix America's fiscal failures strengthened the widespread impression that economic issues sharply divide a... |
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239,09 zł |
Class War?: What Americans Really Think about Economic Inequality
ISBN: 9780226644554 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recent battles in Washington over how to fix America's fiscal failures strengthened the widespread impression that economic issues sharply divide average citizens. Indeed, many commentators split Americans into two opposing groups: uncompromising supporters of unfettered free markets and advocates for government solutions to economic problems. But such dichotomies, Benjamin Page and Lawrence Jacobs contend, ring false. In "Class War?" they present compelling evidence that most Americans favor free enterprise "and" practical government programs to distribute wealth more equitably. At... Recent battles in Washington over how to fix America's fiscal failures strengthened the widespread impression that economic issues sharply divide a... |
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100,95 zł |
Employee Assistance Programs in Managed Care
ISBN: 9780789006172 / Angielski / Twarda / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Make sense of the managed care systems that dominate the world of EAP professionals and programs today Employee Assistance Programs in Managed Care gives you a valuable overview of modern employee assistance programs. It compares and contrasts EAPs with managed behavioral care products and examines how EAPs are often provided in conjunction with managed care services. This timely book, vital in today s ever-changing EAP climate, will familiarize you with essential managed behavioral technology such as the application of medical necessity criteria. This is especially...
Make sense of the managed care systems that dominate the world of EAP professionals and programs today Employee Assistance Programs in Manag...
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656,16 zł |