Social Welfare & Social Services

This book examines the housing crisis in India and underlines the need for formal affordable housing markets. India is home to the worlds largest p...

This book identifies specific changes to bring U.S. social policy in accord with the Information Age of the 21st century, in contrast to the policy...

This book will help prepare the reader to work across disabilities by providing knowledge and training grounded within the ecological framework in ...

This text infuses the field of social work with dynamic and evidence-based active learning, offering fresh ideas to increase students abilities to ...

Residential care and treatment for children and youth remain ubiquitous across Canada in spite of frequent critiques and an ideology of constructin...

Debtors have been mocked, scolded and lied to for decades. We have been told that it is perfectly normal to go into debt to get medical care, to go...

Debtors have been mocked, scolded and lied to for decades. We have been told that it is perfectly normal to go into debt to get medical care, to go...

In the present stage of international capitalist development, women are increasingly being drawn into paid employment by multinational and state in...

Social Work: An introduction to contemporary practice has quickly established itself as a leading and uniquely comprehensive introduction to the fi...

The Nordic welfare states have found themselves in the firing line of post-industrial developments, resulting in fundamental changes and new social...

Wo etablierte Akteure aus Markt, Staat und auch Zivilgesellschaft an ihre Grenzen zu stoßen scheinen, gewinnen Sozialunternehmen dadurch, dass sie ...

Transnational civil society is often seen as an important contributor to the democratization of global governance. In their engagement with the Wor...

This book combines the two most important typologies of capitalist diversity; Esping-Andersen's welfare regime typology and Hall and Soskice's 'Var...

This book analyses the immediate challenges from headlong cuts, root-and-branch restructuring and the longer-term pressures from population ageing....

This book analyses the immediate challenges from headlong cuts, root-and-branch restructuring and the longer-term pressures from population ageing....

Coaching hat sich als Beratungsformat für persönliche und berufliche Veränderungen weltweit etabliert. Fragen der Wirksamkeit und Wirkung von Coach...

Travel, Humanitarianism, and Becoming American in Africa uses observations of American travelers to southern Africa to ask: why is Africa so import...

Who should provide food, and through what relationships? Whose livelihoods should be protected? For over 20 years the peasant farmers of La Via Cam...