Social Policy and Welfare: A Clear Guide Tom Burden
In this accessible book, Burden explores alternative theoretical approaches to the development of social policy, offering a wide spread of comparative material from around the world.
Social Policy and Welfare
Social Policy and Welfare
Zusammenfassung
Designed as a text for students studying Social Work and Welfare. Offers differing methods of dealing with Welfare policies in different societies of the world.
Social Policy and Welfare Zusammenfassung
In this accessible book, Burden explores alternative theoretical approaches to the development of social policy, offering a wide spread of comparative material from around the world.
Social Policy and Welfare Bewertungen
'Students could do no better than keep this volume with them. It is a comprehensive and reliable guide' -- Professor David Coates, Director of the International Centre for Labour Studies, University of Manchester
'A comprehensive intellectual map enabling the reader to grasp the essence of a vast literature on social issues and developed welfare states' -- Professor Bob Deacon, University of Sheffield
'Very topical ... It contains some revealing insights into the nature of welfare policy and is well worth reading' -- News Line
'Its extraordinary range and its author's eye for detail make this an invaluably comprehensive study ... Essential reading' -- Spectre
'A comprehensive intellectual map enabling the reader to grasp the essence of a vast literature on social issues and developed welfare states' -- Professor Bob Deacon, University of Sheffield
'Very topical ... It contains some revealing insights into the nature of welfare policy and is well worth reading' -- News Line
'Its extraordinary range and its author's eye for detail make this an invaluably comprehensive study ... Essential reading' -- Spectre
Über Tom Burden
Tom Burden is Principal Policy Analyst in the Policy Research Institute, Leeds Business School and is a former Principal Lecturer in Social Policy at Leeds Metropolitan University. He is consultant and tutor with the Open University and a member of the Executive Centre for Industrial Policy.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. General explanatory perspectives
2. Central concepts in social policy
3. Perspectives on social policy development
4. Social Policy Strategies
5. Social policy issues
6. Social intervention and vulnerable groups in Britain
7. The diversity of welfare states
8. The developed anglophone welfare states
9. Globalisation and social policy
References
Index
2. Central concepts in social policy
3. Perspectives on social policy development
4. Social Policy Strategies
5. Social policy issues
6. Social intervention and vulnerable groups in Britain
7. The diversity of welfare states
8. The developed anglophone welfare states
9. Globalisation and social policy
References
Index
Zusätzliche Informationen
GOR001234249
9780745309668
0745309666
Social Policy and Welfare: A Clear Guide Tom Burden
Gebraucht - Sehr Gut
Broschiert
Pluto Press
19980220
288
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