Welfare & Benefit Systems

'I tore through the pages. A book I'll read over and over again' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS'Illuminating' OBSERVER We've all had our share of mould, do...

Basic Income: An Anthology of Contemporary Research presents a compilation of six decades of Basic Income literature. It includes the most influent...

Social Security expansion is back on the agenda, at a time when Americans need it more than everhere's what it should look like (and why it matters...

Behind from the Start examines the link between America's shaming, blaming, and marginalizing of poor parents, and American policies that jeopardiz...

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY licence. The COVID-19 pandemic transformed the landscape of voluntary action. Some volunteering pr...

Has the modern Conservative Party developed a distinctive approach to the post-war welfare state? In exploring this question, this accessible book ...

How does social spending relate to economic growth and which countries have got this right and wrong? Peter Lindert examines the experience of coun...

From Finland to Kenya to Stockton, California, more and more governments and private philanthropic organizations are putting the idea of a Universa...

From Finland to Kenya to Stockton, California, more and more governments and private philanthropic organizations are putting the idea of a Universa...

People are living longer, creating an unexpected boom in the elderly population. Longevity is increasing not only in wealthy countries but in devel...

Drawing on international case studies from emerging economies and developing countries including South Africa, India, Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, Tunis...

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

The modern welfare state is indeed one of the greatest achievements of the post-war 20th century. With its key aims of eradicating the five giant s...

This volume addresses the relationship between childbearing, paid work and work-life balance policies across Europe in the 21st century, illuminati...

This volume explores questions about narrative frameworks in disability research. Narrative is a omnipresent meaning-producing communication form i...

Two-thirds of UK government spending now goes on the welfare state and where the money is spent - healthcare, education, pensions, benefits - is th...

No international relationship of the United States is as encumbered by history, geography, culture, language, and economics as the one with Mexico....

Scroungers, spongers, parasites These are just are some of the terms that are typically used, with increasing frequency, to describe the most vul...

Social protection systems are intended to support households in financial difficulties, a role that has been underlined during the recent Great Rec...

Will provide the latest, empirically grounded knowledge about the practice of Social Investment across ten countries, locally and regionally. The e...

Despite the high aspirations of young people from disadvantaged communities, they face barriers that are frustrating the realisation of their educa...

Broken Three Times is a narrative nonfiction book that chronicles one family's travails through the child welfare system. While this is the story o...

Community and Human Services: Concepts for Practice offers an introduction to the key concepts, theories and perspectives of community and human se...