Welfare & Benefit Systems

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...