Social welfare, social policy and social services Books
Bristol University Press The Shame Game
Book SynopsisDrawing on a two-year multi-platform initiative, this book by award-winning journalist and author Mary O'Hara, asks how we can overturn the portrayal of poverty once and for all. Crucially, she turns to the real experts to try to find answers the people who live it.Trade Review"A necessary book in divisive times." Jameela Jamil, actress and activist"Following up on Austerity Bites, Mary O’Hara shows us why poverty sucks. Not just for the obvious reasons of struggle and deprivation, but because poverty is produced by a specific style of politics that revels in the shame of others, a politics where the US and the UK are past masters." Mark Blyth, Brown University and author of Austerity: The history of a dangerous idea"The Shame Game is the book we need right now. Real stories, by people who have lived that story, smashing apart the divisive narratives around poverty that are so damaging to all of us." Kerry Hudson, Author, Lowborn"In a time of extreme social and economic division, Mary O'Hara lifts the lid on who truly benefits from keeping us divided and how we can flip the script of poverty to make a fairer society for all. A powerful and important book." Mahsuda Snaith, author of How to Find Home“Rich people should be required to read this book and poor people should be allowed to. I have rarely seen a more broad and beautiful picture of people who have done more with less than this book. O’Hara has woven a rich tapestry of joy and terror and talent and lost opportunities and the picture she draws is the most comprehensive description of poverty I’ve seen yet.” Linda Tirado, journalist and author of “Hand to mouth"I worked with Mary, and she sees the potential of talent and magic in every kid and every adult. This book explores the absolute travesty of blaming each other." Conrad Murray, BAC Beatbox AcademyTable of ContentsPART I : The inconvenient truth: poverty is real A short prologue Introduction 1 Who are these ‘poor’ people anyway? Being on the breadline in Britain 2 What? There are poor people in the richest nation on earth? PART II: Turning the screw on poor people: shame, stigma and cementing of a toxic poverty narrative 3 A twisted tale: evolution of a the poverty narrative 4 Lights, camera, vilification: the narrative in action 5 The games we play: weaponising the narrative 6 Shame on you: making the toxic narrative stick PART III: Flipping the script: challenging the narrative war on the poor 7 Feeling it: the truth about living in poverty 8 Changing times: fighting poverty, not the poor 9 New generation: young people writing their own script 10 Altered images: constructing a new narrative
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Bristol University Press Social Policy Review 30
Book SynopsisThis book examines critical debates in social policy, including discussions on modern slavery, welfare chauvinism and the Grenfell Tower fire, to offer an informed review of the best in social policy scholarship over the past year.Table of ContentsPart 1: Developments in Social Policy ~ edited by Catherine Needham; Grenfell foretold: a very neoliberal tragedy ~ Stuart Hodkinson; Modern slavery in the United Kingdom: an incoherent response ~ Gary Craig; Childcare, life chances and social justice ~ Gideon Calder; Outcomes-based approaches and the devolved administrations ~ Derek Birrell and Ann Marie Gray; Part 2: Contributions from the Social Policy Association Conference 2017 ~ edited by Elke Heins; Fiscal welfare and its contribution to inequality ~ Adrian Sinfield; `Good solid Conservatism’: Theresa May’s ‘doctrine’ and her approach to the welfare state’ ~ Robert Page; Making markets in employment support: does the variety of quasi-market matter for people with disabilities and health conditions? ~ Eleanor Carter; Social policy and populism: welfare nationalism as the new narrative of social citizenship ~ Markus Ketola and Johan Nordensvard; What is impact? Learning from examples across the professional life-course ~ Tina Haux; Part 3: Excavating social policy lessons from the New Labour era ~ edited by James Rees; Regeneration redux? What (if anything) can we learn from New Labour? ~ Ruth Lupton and Richard Crisp; Back to the future of community cohesion? Learning from New Labour ~ Matthew Donoghue; Learning from New Labour’s approach to the NHS ~ Ian Greener; New Labour and adolescent social exclusion: a retrospective ~ Rikki Dean and Moira Wallace.
£75.99
Bristol University Press Welfare Populism and Welfare Chauvinism
Book SynopsisWhy, in a time of increasing inequality, has there been a recent surge of support for political parties who promote an anti-welfare message? Using a mixed methods approach and newly released data, this book aims to answer this question and to show possible ways forward for welfare states.Trade Review"This important book sets out to tackle the welfare–populism nexus and convincingly shows that the new divisions in our societies instigate welfare chauvinism." Steffen Mau, Humboldt University of Berlin“A very timely exposé that contributes significantly to our understanding of the factors at stake in the complex interplay between the rise of populism and the development of the welfare state.” Femke Roosma, Tilburg UniversityTable of ContentsForeword; What is it all about?; Introduction; Basic concepts; Why inequality matters; Dualization and the labour market; What form has the development in welfare spending taken?; Has social cohesion been eroded?; What do we know about citizens’ perception of the welfare state? ~ Anders Ejrnæs and Bent Greve; Populism, welfare chauvinism and hostility towards immigrants ~ Anders Ejrnæs and Bent Greve; Concluding remarks.
£75.99
Bristol University Press Welfare Populism and Welfare Chauvinism
Book SynopsisIn a time of increasing inequality, why has there been a recent surge of support for political parties who promote an anti-welfare message? Using a mixed methods approach and newly released data, this book aims to answer this question and to show possible ways forward for welfare states.Table of ContentsForeword; What is it all about?; Introduction; Basic concepts; Why inequality matters; Dualization and the labour market; What form has the development in welfare spending taken?; Has social cohesion been eroded?; What do we know about citizens’ perception of the welfare state? ~ Anders Ejrnæs and Bent Greve; Populism, welfare chauvinism and hostility towards immigrants ~ Anders Ejrnæs and Bent Greve; Concluding remarks.
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Bristol University Press Embedding Young Peoples Participation in Health
Book SynopsisThis book explores how young people's participation can be inclusively and sustainably embedded into health services. Using rich case studies of participation in practice, Brady presents a new evidence-based framework to support policymakers and practitioners to embed young people's participation more effectively in healthcare practice.Table of ContentsForeword ~ Kath Evans Introduction: Embedding young people’s participation in healthcare ~ Louca-Mai Brady Part One: Young people’s participation in individual decision-making Chapter 1: Shared decision-making with young people in mental health services ~ Kate Martin and Amy Feltham Chapter 2: Disabled young people’s participation in end-of-life decisions ~ Zoe Picton-Howell Part Two: Participation in national projects and programmes Chapter 3: “Giving young people a voice”: lessons from the NHS England Youth Forum ~ Lisa Whiting, Shelia Roberts, Kath Evans and Julia Petty Chapter 4: RCPCH & Us: Improving healthcare through engagement ~ Emma Sparrow and Mike Linney Chapter 5: Innovative ways of engaging young people whose voices are less heard ~ Lindsay Starbuck, Kirsche Walker, Jack Welch, Emma Rigby, Ann Hagell Part Three: Collaborative research in NHS services Chapter 6: Listening to learn: Enhancing young people’s participation in a large UK Health Trust ~ Barry Percy-Smith, Sarah Kendal, Jo McAllister and Barry Williams Chapter 7. Shifting Sands: Trying to embed participation in a climate of change ~ Louca-Mai Brady, Emily Roberts, Felicity Hathway and Lizzy Horn Part Four: Young people-led participation Chapter 8: Investing in Children: Respecting rights and promoting agency ~ Liam Cairns, Chris Affleck, Chloe Brown and Helen Mulhearn Chapter 9: RAiISE: Advocating for young people with invisible illnesses ~ Sophie Ainsworth, Jenny (Sammy) Ainsworth, Robyn Challinor, Jennifer Preston, Marie Clapham, Laura Whitty and Simon Stones Chapter 10: Rhetoric to reality, the need for a new approach ~ Louca-Mai Brady
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Bristol University Press Support Workers and the Health Professions in
Book SynopsisThis original collection analyses the global experience of health care support workers (HSWs) and examines their interface with the health professions, regulatory practice risks, employment challenges and the dilemmas of an ageing population. Crucial future policy recommendations are also made for a world becoming increasingly dependent on HSWs.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Support Workers and the Health Professions ~ Mike Saks Health Professionals, Support Workers and the Precariat ~ Mike Saks and Katherine Zagrodney Unpaid Informal Carers: The ‘Shadow’ Workforce in Health Care ~ A. Paul Williams and Janet M. Lum The Management and Leadership of Support Workers ~ Mike Dent Regulation, Risk and Health Support Work ~ Mike Saks and Judith Allsop The Interface of Health Support Workers with the Allied Health Professions ~ Susan Nancarrow Support Workers in Social Care: Between Social Work Professionals and Service Users ~ Andreas Liljegren, Anna Dunér and Elisabeth Olin Health Professionals and Peer Support Workers in Mental Health Settings ~ Aukje Leemeijer and Mirko Noordegraaf Complementary and Alternative Medicine as an Invisible Health Support Workforce ~ Joana Almeida and Nelson Barros Personal Support Workers and the Labour Market ~ Audrey Laporte, Adrian Rohit Dass, Whitney Berta, Raisa Deber and Katherine Zagrodney The Role of Health Support Workers in the Ageing Crisis ~ Miwako Hosoda
£75.99
Bristol University Press Populism Democracy and Community Development
Book SynopsisUsing international perspectives and case studies, this book discusses the relationships between community development and populism in the context of today’s widespread crisis of democracy. Exploring the synergies and contradictions between populism and community development, it offers new ways of understanding and responding to populism.Table of ContentsIntroductory Overview ~ Sue Kenny, Jim Ife and Peter Westoby Part One: Framing the Challenges The Challenges of Populism ~ Sue Kenny Right-wing Populism and Community Development: Beyond Modernity and Liberal Democracy ~ Jim Ife A Radical Community Development Response to Right-Wing Populism ~ Peter Westoby Community Development and Popular Education in Populist Times ~ Marjorie Mayo Social-media-weaponised Populism and Community Development ~ Jacques Boulet Alinsky Revisited: ‘Rubbing Raw the Resentments of the People’ ~ Peter Szynka Part Two: Populism and Community Development in Different Contexts From Inclusionary to Exclusionary Populism in the Transformation of U.S. Community Development ~ Randy Stoecker and Benny Witkovsky Populism and Environmental (In)justice in Latin America ~ Marcelo Lopes de Souza Populist Politics and Democracy in the UK: Implications for Community Development ~ Keith Popple Community Engagement Policies in the Era of Populism: Finland ~ Suvi Aho, Juha Hämäläinen and Arto Salonen Populism and Community Organising in Hong Kong ~ Fung, Kwok-kin, Hung, Suet-lin, Lau, Siu-mei, Wong, King-lai, Chan, Yu Cheung Community Development as Counter-hegemony ~ Andie Reynolds Religion and Populism: The Aksi 212 Movement in Indonesia ~ Ismet Fanany and Rebecca Fanany
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Bristol University Press Populism Democracy and Community Development
Book SynopsisUsing international perspectives and case studies, this book discusses the relationships between community development and populism in the context of today's widespread crisis of democracy. Exploring the synergies and contradictions between populism and community development, it offers new ways of understanding and responding to populism.Table of ContentsIntroductory Overview ~ Sue Kenny, Jim Ife and Peter Westoby Part One: Framing the Challenges The Challenges of Populism ~ Sue Kenny Right-wing Populism and Community Development: Beyond Modernity and Liberal Democracy ~ Jim Ife A Radical Community Development Response to Right-Wing Populism ~ Peter Westoby Community Development and Popular Education in Populist Times ~ Marjorie Mayo Social-media-weaponised Populism and Community Development ~ Jacques Boulet Alinsky Revisited: ‘Rubbing Raw the Resentments of the People’ ~ Peter Szynka Part Two: Populism and Community Development in Different Contexts From Inclusionary to Exclusionary Populism in the Transformation of U.S. Community Development ~ Randy Stoecker and Benny Witkovsky Populism and Environmental (In)justice in Latin America ~ Marcelo Lopes de Souza Populist Politics and Democracy in the UK: Implications for Community Development ~ Keith Popple Community Engagement Policies in the Era of Populism: Finland ~ Suvi Aho, Juha Hämäläinen and Arto Salonen Populism and Community Organising in Hong Kong ~ Fung, Kwok-kin, Hung, Suet-lin, Lau, Siu-mei, Wong, King-lai, Chan, Yu Cheung Community Development as Counter-hegemony ~ Andie Reynolds Religion and Populism: The Aksi 212 Movement in Indonesia ~ Ismet Fanany and Rebecca Fanany
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Bristol University Press Housing Shock
Book SynopsisHearne contextualises the Irish housing crisis within its broader global context and examines its origins in terms of the extension of neoliberalism, marketisation and financialisation in housing. Using real voices and stories, he shows how the crisis is having profound impacts on equality, wellbeing and health.Table of ContentsForeword: Special Rapporteur for Housing ~ Leilani Farhi; Introduction: a new housing crisis; Generation Rent; Homelessness: the most extreme inequality; The normalisation of homelessness; Working for social justice: community, activism and academia; The neoliberal roots of the current crisis; The new waves of financialisation: vultures and REITs; Inequality and financialisation; The lost decade of social and affordable housing: austerity and marketisation; The people push back: protests for affordable homes for all; The right to an affordable, secure and decent home for all; A Green New Deal for Housing: affordable sustainable homes and communities for all.
£75.99
Bristol University Press Housing Shock
Book SynopsisHearne contextualises the Irish housing crisis within its broader global context and examines its origins in terms of the extension of neoliberalism, marketisation and financialisation in housing. Using real voices and stories, he shows how the crisis is having profound impacts on equality, wellbeing and health.Table of ContentsForeword: Special Rapporteur for Housing ~ Leilani Farhi; Introduction: a new housing crisis; Generation Rent; Homelessness: the most extreme inequality; The normalisation of homelessness; Working for social justice: community, activism and academia; The neoliberal roots of the current crisis; The new waves of financialisation: vultures and REITs; Inequality and financialisation; The lost decade of social and affordable housing: austerity and marketisation; The people push back: protests for affordable homes for all; The right to an affordable, secure and decent home for all; A Green New Deal for Housing: affordable sustainable homes and communities for all.
£22.79
Bristol University Press The Settlement House Movement Revisited
Book SynopsisThis book provides a historical approach to the study of the Settlement House movement in relation to developments in social welfare and the profession of social work across a range of nations.Table of ContentsIntroduction ~ John Gal, Stefan Köngeter and Sarah Vicary PART 1: The transnational transfer of the settlement house idea A brief transnational history of the Settlement House Movement ~ Stefan Köngeter Berlin’s municipal socialism: A transatlantic muse for Mary Simkhovitch and New York City ~ Barbara Levy Simon The French maisons sociales, Chicago’s Hull-House scheme and their influence in Portugal ~ Francisco Branco Settlement houses and the emergence of social work in Mandatory Palestine ~ John Gal and Yehudit Avnir PART 2: The interface between the Settlement House Movement and other social movements University Extension and the settlement idea ~ Geoffrey A.C. Ginn Between social mission and social reform: The Settlement House Movement in Germany, 1900-1930 ~ Jens Wietschorke To be an Englishman and a Jew: Basil Henriques and the Bernhard Baron Oxford and St. George’s Settlement House ~ Hugh Shewell The English settlements, the Poor Man’s Lawyer and social work, circa 1890-1939 ~ Kate Bradley PART 3: Research in settlement houses and its impact Putting knowledge into action: A social work perspective on settlement house research ~ Dayana Lau Animating objectivity: a Chicago settlement’s use of numeric and aesthetic knowledges to render its immigrant neighbours and neighbourhood knowable ~ Rory Crath PART 4: Final Reflections ‘The soul of the community’: two practitioners reflect on history, place and community in two community-based practices from 1980 to 1995: St Hilda’s Community Centre in Bethnal Green and Waterloo Action Centre in Waterloo, South London ~ Jeanette Copperman and Steven Malies Conclusion ~ Sarah Vicary
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Policy Press Welfare Inequality and Social Citizenship
Book SynopsisOffers a rare and vivid insight into the everyday lives, attitudes and behaviours of the rich as well as the poor across the UK, demonstrating how those marginalised and validated by the existing welfare system make sense of the prevailing socio-political settlement and their own position within it.Trade Review"Scary but crucial reading. Edmiston’s analysis of lived narratives shows how policy framing the poor as `bad’ and the rich as `good’ shape public attitudes towards poverty and inequality." Louise Humpage, Associate Professor, Sociology, University of Auckland"A must read for anyone interested in inequality and social citizenship, this book provides a careful - but damning - assessment of current policies and politics." Tracy Shildrick, University of Newcastle"Through rigorous empirical fieldwork and informed theorising this excellent book explores how lived experiences of inequality generate particular forms of knowledge, understanding and action among affluent and disadvantaged citizens." Peter Dwyer, University of YorkTable of ContentsIntroduction Unequal citizenship? The new social divisions of public welfare Lived experiences of poverty and prosperity in austerity Britain The sociological imagination of rich and poor citizens Heterodox citizens? Conceptions of social rights and responsibilities Identity, difference and citizenship: a fraying tapestry? Deliberating the structural determinants of poverty and inequality Conclusion
£27.54
Bristol University Press Financial Inclusion
Book SynopsisRajiv Prabhakar brings together the typically exclusive views of supporters and critics to present a nuanced, critical analysis of 'financial inclusion'. Addressing issues including the 'poverty premium', financial capability and housing, this dialogue advances crucial public, academic and policy debates and proposes alternative paths forward.Table of ContentsWhat is financial inclusion? Financial capability: citizens or subjects? Financial inclusion and saving The case of housing Alternatives Conclusion
£999.99
Bristol University Press The Struggle for Social Sustainability
Book SynopsisLeading interdisciplinary scholars focus on the social' of social policy. This ground-breaking volume tackles pressing social questions' and critically engages with contested conceptions of the social' which are increasingly deployed by international institutions and policy makers.Table of ContentsThe ‘social’ in the age of sustainability ~ Christopher Deeming ‘No such thing as society’?: Neoliberalism and the social ~ John Clarke The social question: Reconciling social and economic imperatives in policy ~ Bradley W. Bateman Disputing the economization and the de-politicization of ‘social’ investment in global social policy ~ Jean-Michel Bonvin and Francesco Laruffa The social dimension of sustainable development at the UN: From Brundtland to the SDGs ~ Iris Borowy Paradigm lost? Blocking the path to ecosocial welfare and post-productivism ~ Tony Fitzpatrick World population at the UN: Our numbers are not our problem? ~ Danny Dorling Ageing sustainably ~ Alan Walker The political challenges to governing global migration and social welfare ~ Edward A. Koning Bringing ‘the social’ into an intersectional analysis of global crises and welfare ~ Fiona Williams Global social policy and the quasi-concept of social cohesion ~ Jane Jenson Putting the global in social justice? ~ Gary Craig ‘Go-social’? Inclusive growth and global social governance ~ Christopher Deeming For better or worse? ~ Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett The struggle for social sustainability ~ Christopher Deeming
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Bristol University Press Local Authorities and the Social Determinants of
Book SynopsisThis crucial contemporary study reviews the evolving role of local authorities in health, social care and wellbeing. Health and policy experts survey disparities across Britain, share case studies of strategies and consider authorities’ interaction with local and central government.Table of ContentsForeword ~ Rhodri Williams QC Prologue Key Socio-political Changes Affecting the Health and Wellbeing of People ~ Adrian Bonner Part 1: Health, Social Care and Community Wellbeing Introduction ~ Adrian Bonner Deaths of Despair: Probable Causes and Possible Cures ~ Harry Burns The Role of English Local Authorities in Addressing the Social Determinants of Health: A Public Health Perspective ~ Jeanelle de Gruchy and Jim McManus Health and Social Care Systems ~ Anna Coleman, Jolanta Shields and Tim Gilling Strictly Come Partnering: Are Health and Wellbeing Boards the Answer? ~ David J Hunter Part 2: The Role of Local Authorities in Promoting Health and Wellbeing in the Community Introduction ~ Lord Graham Tope Devolution and Localism: Metropolitan Authorities ~ Paul Dennett and Jacquie Russell Wider Determinants of Health - Housing, Environment, Economy and Education more Important than Access to Healthcare: The Importance of Prevention and Early Intervention ~ Ruth Dombey and Adrian Bonner Inequalities in Health and Wellbeing across the UK: A Local North East Perspective ~ Edward Kunonga, Gillian Gibson and Catherine Parker Cultural Change and the Evolution of Community Governance: A North West England Perspective ~ Katie Arden, Keith Cunliffe and Penny Cook Part 3: Local Authority Commissioning Introduction ~ Mark Cook The Changing Landscape of Local Authority Commissioning ~ Dave Ayre. The Power and Value of Relationships in Local Authorities’ and Central Government Funding Encouraging Culture Change ~ Richard Smith The Challenges Facing Local Authorities in Supporting Children and Families ~ Gayle Munro and Keith Clements The Cost of Care if you Don’t Own your Home ~ Glenda Roberts The Human, Learning, Systems approach to Commissioning in Complexity ~ Toby Lowe, Max French and Melissa Hawkins Part 4: The Third Sector Introduction ~ Alison Navarro Commissioning and Social Determinants: Evidence and Opportunities ~ Chris Fox and Chris O’Leary Future Generations: The Role of Community-based Organisations in Supporting Young People ~ Adam Bonner Healthier Individuals and Reinvigorated Healthier Communities are Unachievable through the Hard and Soft Structures of the Commissioner/Provider Statutory approach without the Third Sector ~ Tony Thornton, Tony Chasteauneuf and Dean Pallant Mutuality in the Public, Private and Third Sectors ~ Richard Simmons. Part 5: Socio Economic Political Perspectives Introduction ~ Lord Peter Hain From Front-line Defence to Back-foot Retreat: The Diminishment of Local Government’s Role in Social Health Outcomes ~ Mike Bennett The Health of Scottish Housing Policy ~ Isobel Anderson Devolution of Cities and Local Communities ~ Catherine Farrell, Jennifer Law and Steve Thomas Steadying the Swinging Pendulum: How Can we Combine the Best Aspects of Competing Approaches to Public Service Delivery? ~ Nigel Ball Conclusion: Future Responses of Local Authorities to Socio Political Cultural Development ~ Adrian Bonner
£75.99
Bristol University Press Local Authorities and the Social Determinants of
Book SynopsisThis crucial contemporary study reviews the evolving role of local authorities in health, social care and wellbeing. Health and policy experts survey disparities across Britain, share case studies of strategies and consider authorities' interaction with local and central government.Table of ContentsForeword ~ Rhodri Williams QC Prologue Key Socio-political Changes Affecting the Health and Wellbeing of People ~ Adrian Bonner Part 1: Health, Social Care and Community Wellbeing Introduction ~ Adrian Bonner Deaths of Despair: Probable Causes and Possible Cures ~ Harry Burns The Role of English Local Authorities in Addressing the Social Determinants of Health: A Public Health Perspective ~ Jeanelle de Gruchy and Jim McManus Health and Social Care Systems ~ Anna Coleman, Jolanta Shields and Tim Gilling Strictly Come Partnering: Are Health and Wellbeing Boards the Answer? ~ David J Hunter Part 2: The Role of Local Authorities in Promoting Health and Wellbeing in the Community Introduction ~ Lord Graham Tope Devolution and Localism: Metropolitan Authorities ~ Paul Dennett and Jacquie Russell Wider Determinants of Health - Housing, Environment, Economy and Education more Important than Access to Healthcare: The Importance of Prevention and Early Intervention ~ Ruth Dombey and Adrian Bonner Inequalities in Health and Wellbeing across the UK: A Local North East Perspective ~ Edward Kunonga, Gillian Gibson and Catherine Parker Cultural Change and the Evolution of Community Governance: A North West England Perspective ~ Katie Arden, Keith Cunliffe and Penny Cook Part 3: Local Authority Commissioning Introduction ~ Mark Cook The Changing Landscape of Local Authority Commissioning ~ Dave Ayre. The Power and Value of Relationships in Local Authorities’ and Central Government Funding Encouraging Culture Change ~ Richard Smith The Challenges Facing Local Authorities in Supporting Children and Families ~ Gayle Munro and Keith Clements The Cost of Care if you Don’t Own your Home ~ Glenda Roberts The Human, Learning, Systems approach to Commissioning in Complexity ~ Toby Lowe, Max French and Melissa Hawkins Part 4: The Third Sector Introduction ~ Alison Navarro Commissioning and Social Determinants: Evidence and Opportunities ~ Chris Fox and Chris O’Leary Future Generations: The Role of Community-based Organisations in Supporting Young People ~ Adam Bonner Healthier Individuals and Reinvigorated Healthier Communities are Unachievable through the Hard and Soft Structures of the Commissioner/Provider Statutory approach without the Third Sector ~ Tony Thornton, Tony Chasteauneuf and Dean Pallant Mutuality in the Public, Private and Third Sectors ~ Richard Simmons. Part 5: Socio Economic Political Perspectives Introduction ~ Lord Peter Hain From Front-line Defence to Back-foot Retreat: The Diminishment of Local Government’s Role in Social Health Outcomes ~ Mike Bennett The Health of Scottish Housing Policy ~ Isobel Anderson Devolution of Cities and Local Communities ~ Catherine Farrell, Jennifer Law and Steve Thomas Steadying the Swinging Pendulum: How Can we Combine the Best Aspects of Competing Approaches to Public Service Delivery? ~ Nigel Ball Conclusion: Future Responses of Local Authorities to Socio Political Cultural Development ~ Adrian Bonner
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Bristol University Press Researching Voluntary Action
Book SynopsisWith case studies from around the world, this accessible book explores the methodological complexities of research into voluntary action, charitable behaviour and participation in voluntary organisations.Table of Contents1. Introduction - Eddy Hogg and Jon Dean 2. (Un)suitable methods and reflexive considerations: an interview and focus group study of youth volunteering - James Davies 3. Interpretive ethnography: a UK charity shop case study - Triona Fitton 4. Collaborative philanthropy and doing practically relevant, critical research - Angela Eikenberry and Xiaowei Song 5. Peer research: co- producing research within the context of voluntary and community action – Ellen Bennett 6. Charity advertising: visual methods, images and elicitation - Abhishek Bhati and Jon Dean 7. Using archives and objects in voluntary action research - Georgina Brewis 8. Using Mass Observation as a source of qualitative secondary data for interdisciplinary longitudinal research on voluntary action - Rose Lindsey 9. Investigating meanings and messages on volunteering through television media – Kimberly Wiley 10. Annual reporting in voluntary organisations: opportunities for content analysis research - Carolyn Cordery and Danielle McConville 11. Researching risk in the voluntary sector: the challenges and opportunities of regulatory data - Diarmuid McDonnell and Alasdair C. Rutherford 12. Exploring the benefi ts of volunteering: combining survey and administrative data in the Nordic ‘laboratory’ – Hans-Peter Y. Qvist 13. Spatial approaches to the voluntary sector – James Bowles 14. Restudies, surveys and what counts as volunteering - Jon Dean and Diarmuid Verrier 15. Conclusion - Jon Dean and Eddy Hogg
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Bristol University Press Hope Under Neoliberal Austerity
Book SynopsisThis book explores the ways in which communities are responding today's society as government policies are increasingly promoting privatisation, deregulation and individualisation of responsibilities, providing insights into the efficacy of these approaches through key policy issues including access to food, education and health.Table of Contents1. Islands of Hope in a Sea of Despair: Civil Society in an Age of Austerity 2. The North East of England: Place, Economy and People Part 1: The Public Sector and Civil Society 3. The Public Sector and Civil Society: Introduction 4. Innovation Outside the State: The Glendale Gateway Trust 5. The Byker Community Trust and the ‘Byker Approach’ 6. Café Society: Transforming Community Through Quiet Activism and Reciprocity 7. ‘Computer Says No’: Exploring Social Justice in Digital Services 8. Drive to Thrive: A Place-Based Approach to Tackling Poverty in Gateshead 9. City of Dreams: Enabling Children and Young People’s Cultural Participation and Civic Voice in Newcastle and Gateshead 10. Are We ‘All in This Together?’: Reflecting on the Continuities Between Austerity and COVID-19 Crises Part 2: The Civic University 11. The Civic University: Introduction 12. Reinventing a Civic Role for the 21st-Century: The Cathedral and the University 13. Realising the Potential of Universities for Inclusive, Innovation-Led Development: The Case of the Newcastle City Futures Urban Living Partnership Pilot 14. Future Homes: Developing New Responses Through New Organisations 15. The Good, the Bad and the Disconcerting: A Week in the Life of University Project Based Learning for Schools 16. The Containment of Democratic Innovation: Reflections from Two University Collaborations 17. Citizen Power, the University and the North East 18. So What is a University in Any Case?: A Grass-roots Perspective on the University and Urban Social Justice 19. Conclusion: Hope in an Age of Austerity and a Time of Anxiety
£76.00
Bristol University Press Care for Older Adults in India
Book SynopsisIndia's ageing population is growing rapidly. This book examines living arrangements across India and their impact on the provision of care for older adults in India.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Living Arrangements and Care in India – Ajay Bailey, Martin Hyde and K. S. James 2. Theorising Care and Relationships in the Age of Migration – Ajay Bailey and Martin Hyde 3. Emerging Living Arrangements of Older Adults in India: Patterns and Welfare Implications – K S James and Sanjay Kumar 4. Living Arrangement Concordance and the Well-being of Older Persons in India – T. S. Syamala, Verma Supriya and Sebastian Joseph 5. Family Size and Living Arrangements Among Older Adults in Kerala: Panel Data Analysis, 2004–2019 – S. Irudaya Rajan and S. Sunitha 6. Care Arrangements for Older Adults: Exploring the Intergenerational Contract in Emigrant Households of Goa, India – Allen P. Ugargol, Ajay Bailey, Inge Hutter and K.S. James 7. All My Responsibilities Towards My Children Are Over! Linked Lives and Life Course Obligations Among Older Adults With Migrant Children in India – Ajay Bailey, K. S. James, and Jyoti Hallad 8. Interpreting the Landscapes of Care for Older Men in Delhi and Kolkata: Perspectives From Care Receivers and Caregivers – Selim Jahangir, Ajay Bailey and Anindita Datta 9. The Role of Cultural Meaning System and Place Attachment in Retaining Home Ownership While Residing in Retirement Homes in Kerala, India – Nikhil Pazhoothundathil, Ajay Bailey, and Inge Hutter 10. Decision-Making and Choice or Sine qua Non? Care Home Entry in Tamil Nadu – Vanessa Burholt, R. Maruthakutti and Carol A. Maddock 11. Welfare and Development Programmes for Older Adults in India – S. Siva Raju 12. Lessons and Future Directions for Caregiving Research in India – Martin Hyde, Ajay Bailey, and K. S. James
£76.00
Bristol University Press Protecting and Safeguarding Children in Schools
Book SynopsisSchools play a vital role in safeguarding children and young people, and this timely book examines how schools identify and respond to child protection concerns, and their engagement with local authority children’s services.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Making sense of schools’ engagement in multi-agency working in the changed educational landscape Part 1: The national picture 2. A historical perspective: the evolving role of schools in child protection and safeguarding Reflections from Susannah Wright, Senior Lecturer in Education Studies, School of Education, Oxford Brookes University 3. Contemporary challenges: views from local authorities and ‘the field’ Reflections from Anne Edwards, Professor Emerita, Department of Education, University of Oxford Part 2: Schools’ perspectives 4. How schools are responding to safeguarding and the challenges they face 5. Meeting the threshold: referral to children’s social care services 6. Beneath the threshold: ‘early help’ and schools’ support for children and families Reflections from Alun Rees, Alun Rees Learning Limited and Consultant to the Rees Centre for the Study of Fostering and Education, University of Oxford Part 3: Concluding thoughts 7. Schools and safeguarding: aligning expectations with reality
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Bristol University Press Care at Home for People Living with Dementia
Book SynopsisWith dementia care shifting from institutional to home settings, this book considers the intersections of formal health and social care strategies and family experiences. Drawing on case studies from Canada, it enhances the understanding of good policy and practice in dementia care and the potential for better outcomes for all those concerned.Table of ContentsPreface 1. Studying family care practices 2. From strategy to service: practices of identification and the work of organizing dementia services 3. What matters for care at home for people living with dementia? Using film to surface the situated priorities of differently positioned ‘stakeholders’ 4. Negotiating everyday life with dementia: four families 5. Relations between formal and family care: divergent practices in care at home for people living with dementia 6. Patterning dementia 7. Borders and helpfulness 8. How to sustain a good life with dementia?
£76.00
Bristol University Press Care at Home for People Living with Dementia
Book SynopsisWith dementia care shifting from institutional to home settings, this book considers the intersections of formal health and social care strategies and family experiences. Drawing on case studies from Canada, it enhances the understanding of good policy and practice in dementia care and the potential for better outcomes for all those concerned.Table of ContentsPreface 1. Studying family care practices 2. From strategy to service: practices of identification and the work of organizing dementia services 3. What matters for care at home for people living with dementia? Using film to surface the situated priorities of differently positioned ‘stakeholders’ 4. Negotiating everyday life with dementia: four families 5. Relations between formal and family care: divergent practices in care at home for people living with dementia 6. Patterning dementia 7. Borders and helpfulness 8. How to sustain a good life with dementia?
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Bristol University Press Peacebuilding Conflict and Community Development
Book SynopsisHow can local communities effectively build peace and reconciliation before, during and after open violence? This trailblazing book gives practical examples, from the Global North and Global South, on communities alleviating conflict and enabling transformation in divided societies.Table of ContentsIntroduction ~ John Eversley, Sinéad Gormally and Avila Kilmurray Everyday Peace as a Community Development Approach ~ Anthony Ware, Vicki-Ann Ware, and Leanne Kelly Peacebuilding with Youth: Experience in Cúcuta, Colombia ~ Nohora Constanza Niño Vega Dialogues to develop civil movements in the Caucasus ~ Larissa Sotieva and Juliet Schofield Working for Social Justice through Community Development in Nigeria ~ Samir Halliru Memory, truth, and hope: long journeys of justice in Eastern Sri Lanka ~ Sarala Emmanuel and P.B. Gowthaman Brazil: Public Security as a human right in the favelas ~ Eliana Sousa Silva and Lidiane Malanquini, Redes da Maré Nepal: Working with community-based women to influence inclusion and peacebuilding ~ Susan Risal Palestinian storytelling: authoring their own lives ~ Patricia Sellick Community-based action in Northern Ireland: Activism in a violently contested society ~ Monina O’Prey Everyday Peace: After Ethnic Cleansing in Myanmar’s Rohingya Conflict ~ Vicki-Ann Ware, Anthony Ware and Leanne Kelly Drawing the threads together ~ John Eversley, Sinéad Gormally and Avila Kilmurray
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Bristol University Press Peacebuilding Conflict and Community Development
Book SynopsisHow can local communities effectively build peace and reconciliation before, during and after open violence? This trailblazing book gives practical examples, from the Global North and Global South, on communities alleviating conflict and enabling transformation in divided societies.Table of ContentsIntroduction ~ John Eversley, Sinéad Gormally and Avila Kilmurray Everyday Peace as a Community Development Approach ~ Anthony Ware, Vicki-Ann Ware, and Leanne Kelly Peacebuilding with Youth: Experience in Cúcuta, Colombia ~ Nohora Constanza Niño Vega Dialogues to develop civil movements in the Caucasus ~ Larissa Sotieva and Juliet Schofield Working for Social Justice through Community Development in Nigeria ~ Samir Halliru Memory, truth, and hope: long journeys of justice in Eastern Sri Lanka ~ Sarala Emmanuel and P.B. Gowthaman Brazil: Public Security as a human right in the favelas ~ Eliana Sousa Silva and Lidiane Malanquini, Redes da Maré Nepal: Working with community-based women to influence inclusion and peacebuilding ~ Susan Risal Palestinian storytelling: authoring their own lives ~ Patricia Sellick Community-based action in Northern Ireland: Activism in a violently contested society ~ Monina O’Prey Everyday Peace: After Ethnic Cleansing in Myanmar’s Rohingya Conflict ~ Vicki-Ann Ware, Anthony Ware and Leanne Kelly Drawing the threads together ~ John Eversley, Sinéad Gormally and Avila Kilmurray
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Bristol University Press Defund the Police
Book SynopsisThis book examines the ‘defund the police’ movement from historical and contemporary perspectives. Against the backdrop of abolition and the failure of police reform, it uses international case studies to reimagine community safety beyond policing and imprisonment.Table of Contents1. Time for change 2. A brief history of policing 3. Don’t police solve crime? 4. The protest movement never stopped: from Black Power to zero tolerance 5. Police violence is the pandemic 6. The protection racket 7. Disabling policing, protecting community health 8. The failure of reform 9. What is to be done?
£77.39
Bristol University Press Understanding Public Services
Book SynopsisDive inside this textbook for an accessible guide to the discipline of public services; explore core public service topics and understand the fundamental elements of working in the public services.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Defining and understanding public services - Elizabeth Cookingham Bailey and E.K. Sarter Part 1: Public services and the welfare state 1. Public services and public policies - E.K. Sarter 2. Mixed economy - Elizabeth Cookingham Bailey 3. Public services and the law - Simon Read Part 2: The internal dynamics of public services 4. Organisations and institutions - Elizabeth Cookingham Bailey 5. Strategy and strategic management - Jennifer Law 6. Leadership and management - David Phillips and Simon Read Part 3: Achieving social and environmental impact 7. Public services and the challenge of sustainability - E.K. Sarter 8. Public services and equality - E.K. Sarter, Wendy Booth and Vida Greaux 9. Public services and the environmental crisis - E.K. Sarter 10. Adapting organisations: public services, climate change and the energy transition - Filippos Proedrou Conclusion: Current developments and the future of public services - Elizabeth Cookingham Bailey, E.K. Sarter, Wendy Booth, Vida Greaux, Stuart Jones, Jennifer Law, David Phillips, Filippos Proedrou and Simon Read
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Bristol University Press COVID19 and Social Determinants of Health
Book SynopsisExtending the ideas developed in the previous volumes in the Social Determinants of Health series, this book reviews the impact of COVID-19 on local and national governance from the perspectives of public health, social care and economic development.Table of ContentsForeword ~ Richard Smith Introduction ~ Adrian Bonner Part I: Wicked issues and relationalism ~ Adrian Bonner 1. Using relationalism to navigate wicked issues: investing for a ‘relational dividend’? ~ Richard Simmons 2. Relationalism, wicked issues and social determinants of health ~ Adrian Bonner 3. Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic: a sociopolitical perspective ~ David Hunter 4. Giving children the best start in life? ~ Edward Kunonga, Brighton Chireka, Tsitsi Chawatama and Victoria Cooling Part II: Regionalism and geopolitical environments ~ Adrian Bonner 5. Levelling up in the North and North- East England: complex and fragmented governance and the new National Health Service and local government partnerships ~ John Shutt 6. UK local council strategies post COVID- 19: the local economy, climate change and community wellbeing ~ Manuel Abellan 7.1 Case study: Racism and xenophobia: America’s deadly preexisting conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic’s first year ~ Joanna Sharpless and Annie Dell 7.2 Case study: Safe at home? Exploring intersecting vulnerabilities under COVID-19 and the role of faith actors in the South African context ~ Selina Palm 7.3 Case study: COVID-19 and increased vulnerabilities to human trafficking and modern slavery: perspectives from India and Nepal ~ Tribeni Gurung, Nishan Lo, Lalliankunga and Vijaya Lama 7.4 Case study: COVID-19 and governing for health and wellbeing in New Zealand: putting communities at the centre ~ Peter Mckinlay and Anna Matheson Part III: Public sector, COVID- 19 and culture change ~ Mike Bennett 8. Changing context of public governance and the need for innovation and creating public value ~ Joyce Liddle 9. The effect of COVID- 19 on the financial sustainability of local government ~ Aileen Murphie 10. UN Sustainability Goals and social value: local authority perspectives ~ Rob Whiteman, Tim Reade and Dave Ayre 11. Housing policy and provision after COVID- 19 ~ Peter Murphy 12. Employment and support ~ Elizabeth Taylor, Andrew Morton and Annie Dell Part IV: The third sector ~ Clare Bonham 13. Relational collaboration and innovation in responding to need and austerity: food banks ~ Alex Murdock 14. Volunteering and small charities ~ Chris O’Leary and Rita Chadha 15. Creating added value: the third sector, local and national government approaches to address domestic abuse ~ Emily Hodge 16. Wicked issues: a faith- based perspective ~ Drew McCombe and Dean Pallant PART V The case for relationalism ~ Richard Smith 17.1 Case study: A relationalism exemplar ~ Richard Smith 17.2 Case study: Housing and homelessness ~ Adam Cunnington 17.3 Case study: Environmental planning in a post-COVID-19 world ~ Nigel Saunders 17.4 Case study: Central England Co-operative society ~ Luke Olly and Hannah Gallimore PART VI Engagement and proposed changes Introduction ~ Richard Smith 18. Soft and hard measures in optimising wellbeing through procurement, commissioning and partnering ~ Mark Cook 19. Relational procurement: translating lessons learned from large infrastructural projects ~ Mike Bresnen, Sarah-Jane Lennie and Nick Marshall 20. The impact of ‘the lost decade’ on developing a relational culture in public– private partnering ~ Michael Burton 21. When the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable: has the moment arrived for the wholesale adoption of relationism? ~ Nigel Ball Conclusion ~ Adrian Bonner Appendix: The Centre for Partnering
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Bristol University Press COVID19 and Social Determinants of Health
Book SynopsisExtending the ideas developed in the previous volumes in the Social Determinants of Health series, this book reviews the impact of COVID-19 on local and national governance from the perspectives of public health, social care and economic development.Table of ContentsForeword ~ Richard Smith Introduction ~ Adrian Bonner Part I: Wicked issues and relationalism ~ Adrian Bonner 1. Using relationalism to navigate wicked issues: investing for a ‘relational dividend’? ~ Richard Simmons 2. Relationalism, wicked issues and social determinants of health ~ Adrian Bonner 3. Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic: a sociopolitical perspective ~ David Hunter 4. Giving children the best start in life? ~ Edward Kunonga, Brighton Chireka, Tsitsi Chawatama and Victoria Cooling Part II: Regionalism and geopolitical environments ~ Adrian Bonner 5. Levelling up in the North and North- East England: complex and fragmented governance and the new National Health Service and local government partnerships ~ John Shutt 6. UK local council strategies post COVID- 19: the local economy, climate change and community wellbeing ~ Manuel Abellan 7.1 Case study: Racism and xenophobia: America’s deadly preexisting conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic’s first year ~ Joanna Sharpless and Annie Dell 7.2 Case study: Safe at home? Exploring intersecting vulnerabilities under COVID-19 and the role of faith actors in the South African context ~ Selina Palm 7.3 Case study: COVID-19 and increased vulnerabilities to human trafficking and modern slavery: perspectives from India and Nepal ~ Tribeni Gurung, Nishan Lo, Lalliankunga and Vijaya Lama 7.4 Case study: COVID-19 and governing for health and wellbeing in New Zealand: putting communities at the centre ~ Peter Mckinlay and Anna Matheson Part III: Public sector, COVID- 19 and culture change ~ Mike Bennett 8. Changing context of public governance and the need for innovation and creating public value ~ Joyce Liddle 9. The effect of COVID- 19 on the financial sustainability of local government ~ Aileen Murphie 10. UN Sustainability Goals and social value: local authority perspectives ~ Rob Whiteman, Tim Reade and Dave Ayre 11. Housing policy and provision after COVID- 19 ~ Peter Murphy 12. Employment and support ~ Elizabeth Taylor, Andrew Morton and Annie Dell Part IV: The third sector ~ Clare Bonham 13. Relational collaboration and innovation in responding to need and austerity: food banks ~ Alex Murdock 14. Volunteering and small charities ~ Chris O’Leary and Rita Chadha 15. Creating added value: the third sector, local and national government approaches to address domestic abuse ~ Emily Hodge 16. Wicked issues: a faith- based perspective ~ Drew McCombe and Dean Pallant PART V The case for relationalism ~ Richard Smith 17.1 Case study: A relationalism exemplar ~ Richard Smith 17.2 Case study: Housing and homelessness ~ Adam Cunnington 17.3 Case study: Environmental planning in a post-COVID-19 world ~ Nigel Saunders 17.4 Case study: Central England Co-operative society ~ Luke Olly and Hannah Gallimore PART VI Engagement and proposed changes Introduction ~ Richard Smith 18. Soft and hard measures in optimising wellbeing through procurement, commissioning and partnering ~ Mark Cook 19. Relational procurement: translating lessons learned from large infrastructural projects ~ Mike Bresnen, Sarah-Jane Lennie and Nick Marshall 20. The impact of ‘the lost decade’ on developing a relational culture in public– private partnering ~ Michael Burton 21. When the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable: has the moment arrived for the wholesale adoption of relationism? ~ Nigel Ball Conclusion ~ Adrian Bonner Appendix: The Centre for Partnering
£28.49
Bristol University Press Cocreation in Public Services for Innovation and
Book SynopsisAvailable Open Access digitally under CC-BY licence.. Informed by practical action, lived experience and international research, this book shines new light on the theory and reality of co-creation, highlighting the possibilities and potential in a range of contexts through practical service dilemmas and lived experience.
£26.59
Bristol University Press Neighbourhood Policing
Book SynopsisNeighbourhood policing has been called the “cornerstone of British policing” but changing demand, pressures on funding and cyclical political support mean that this approach is under considerable pressure. The book investigates whether this UK model - intended to build confidence and legitimacy - has been successful and assesses its future.Table of Contents1. Overview 2. Social and political context 3. Understanding police legitimacy and public confidence 4. Visibility and foot patrol 5. Engaging communities 6. Solving problems 7. Partnerships 8. Building communities 9. Themes and future directions
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Bristol University Press The NHS at 75
Book SynopsisIn its 75th anniversary year, this book examines the history, evolution and future of the NHS. With contributions from leading researchers and experts across a range of fields, it provides a long-term critical review of the NHS and key themes in health policy.Table of ContentsForeword by Simon Stevens 1. The NHS at 75: An Unfolding Story – Mark Exworthy, Russell Mannion and Martin Powell 2. NHS Governance: The Centre Claims Authority – Scott Greer 3. Health and Care Funding at 75 – Anita Charlesworth, Nihar Shembavnekar and George Stevenson 4. The Devolved Nations – John Stewart 5. NHS at 75: General Practice Through the Lens of Access – Kath Checkland, Jennifer Voorhees, Jonathan Hammond and Sharon Spooner 6. NHS Hospitals and the Bedpan Doctrine: The First 75 Years – Rod Sheaff and Pauline Allen 7. Quality and the NHS: Fair-Weather Friends or a Long-Standing Relationship? – Ross Millar, Justin Waring and Mirza Lalani 8. Improving Health and Tackling Health Inequalities: What Role for the NHS? – Martin Powell and Mark Exworthy 9. NHS Managers at a Crossroads: Part of the Problem or the Solution? – Ian Kirkpatrick 10. Forgotten, Neglected and a Poor Relation? Reflecting on the 75th Anniversary of Adult Social Care – Catherine Needham and Jon Glasby 11. The NHS at 75 in Comparative Perspective – Ian Greener 12. Our NHS? The Changing Involvement of Patients and the Public in England’s Health and Care System – Ellen Stewart, Amit Desai and Giulia Zoccatelli 13. After 75 Years, Whither the NHS? Some Conclusions – Martin Powell, Mark Exworthy and Russell Mannion
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Bristol University Press Children Family and the State
Book SynopsisThis book gives students a critical insight into how children and families' everyday lives and experiences are shaped by policy and legislation. Providing guidance on developing academic assignments throughout, it covers concepts such as the family within multicultural societies, poverty, social mobility and life-chances.Table of Contents1. Introduction 1.1 Why Read This Book 1.2 Bronfenbrenner's Socio-Ecological Model 1.3 Piaget and Vygotsky 1.4 How Does Society Influence Children’s Development? 2. The Family 2.1 What Is a Family? 2.2 Seeing the Things We Do for Love as a Script To Be Followed 2.3. How Have Relationships Changed? 2.4. Does Reflexivity Mean That We Project Manage Our Own Lives? 2.5. How Discourse Makes Us Believe the Way Families Behave Is Natural 2.6 How Does Discourse Have Power? 2.7 How State Governance Draws Upon Discourse 2.8 How Might You Use This Chapter 3. Parenting and Failing Families 3.1 How Does the State Regulate Families 3.2 Is It the Case That What Parents Do Is More Important Than Who Parents Are? 3.3 Does Social Class Influence Parenting? 3.4 Should the State Help Parents? 3.5 What Do We Mean by Failing or Troubled Families 3.6 Can Failing Families Be Seen as Part of an Underclass? 3.7 Murray and the Start of Concerns 3.8 Being Critical and Using This Chapter 4. The State 4.1 Why Is the State Relevant to Studying Children and Families? 4.2 Can the State Do Things That Individuals Cannot? 4.3 How Values Shape What the State Does 4.4 What Do We Mean by the State 4.5 How the State Can Regulate the Context of Your Life 4.6 Should We Give Up Personal Freedoms and Let the State Have More Power? 4.7 Considering the Power of the State 4.8 Rights, and Some Arguments for Restricting or Removing Them 4.9 Removing Rights Because of Who, or What, You Are 4.10 Democracy and Populism 4.11 Making Use of This Chapter in an Assignment 5. The Relevance of Political Ideologies 5.1 What Do We Mean by Political Ideologies 5.2 Making Sense of Left and Right in Politics 5.3 Neoliberalism: Individuals, Free Markets and Inequality 5.4 Neoconservatism: Morals, Culture Wars and Nationalism 5.5 Social Democracy: Equal Opportunities, Social Inclusion and the Third Way 5.6 Communitarianism 5.7 Social and Cultural Capital 5.8 What You Can Do With This Chapter To Make Your Assignments Stronger 6. Welfare, Policy and the Family 6.1 How Is Ideology Put Into Practice 6.2 How Does Ideology Underpin Welfare? 6.3 How Have Ideas About the Family Shaped Welfare Services? 6.4 Deserving, Undeserving and the Problem of Need 6.5 How Can We Ensure That Welfare Only Goes to the Deserving? 6.6 How the State Shapes Family Life 6.7 So What? 7. Wellbeing 7.1 What Do We Mean by Wellbeing 7.2 Does Wellbeing Represent Individualisation? 7.3 Inequality and Wellbeing 7.4 The Key Ideas That Really Should Be in an Essay 8. Vulnerable Children 8.1 A Discourse of Children As Naturally Vulnerable 8.2 Policy and Need 8.3 What Is the Social Context of Vulnerability? 8.4 What Might You Use in an Essay Out of This Chapter? 9. Resilience 9.1 Why Is Resilience Important? 9.2 What Do We Mean by Resilience 9.3 Can Parents Help To Develop Resilience 9.4 Why We Need Adversity 9.5 What Can I Do With This? 10. Risk 10.1 Children, Risk and Resilience 10.2 The Move Towards Individual Responsibility, Reflexivity and Choice 10.3 Are We Protecting Children When We Remove All Risks? 10.4 Where Do I Fit This In 11. Safeguarding 11.1 How Culture and Values Define a Child in Need and a Child Being Harmed 11.2 Should We Keep All Children and Young People Safe? 11.3 Sex, Technology and Risk 11.4 The Social and Political Context 11.5 Making Use of This in Assignments 12. Life-Chances, Inequalities and Social Mobility 12.1 How Life-Chances Explain Social Inequalities 12.2 How Life-Choices Explain Social Inequalities 12.3 What Social Inequalities and What Is Wrong With Inequality? 12.4 What Can the State Do About Inequalities? 12.5 Why Is In-Work Poverty Important 12.6 Why Housing Matters to Children 12.7 Is Social Mobility Important for Children? 12.8 Using This Chapter 13. What, There’s No Conclusion? 13.1 So What?
£72.00
MP-WBK World Bank Group Publ Adaptive Social Protection Building Resilience to Shocks
£30.56
Duke University Press I Never Left Home
Book SynopsisIn 1969, poet and revolutionary Margaret Randall was forced underground when the Mexican government cracked down on all those who took part in the 1968 student movement. Needing to leave the country, she sent her four young children alone to Cuba while she scrambled to find safe passage out of Mexico. In I Never Left Home, Randall recounts her harrowing escape and the other extraordinary stories from her life and career. From living among New York's abstract expressionists in the mid-1950s as a young woman to working in the Nicaraguan Ministry of Culture to instill revolutionary values in the media during the Sandinista movement, the story of Randall's life reads like a Hollywood production. Along the way, she edited a bilingual literary journal in Mexico City, befriended Cuban revolutionaries, raised a family, came out as a lesbian, taught college, and wrote over 150 books. Throughout it all, Randall never wavered from her devotion to social justice. When she returned to the United States in 1984 after living in Latin America for twenty-three years, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service ordered her to be deported for her subversive writing. Over the next five years, and with the support of writers, entertainers, and ordinary people across the country, Randall fought to regain her citizenship, which she won in court in 1989. As much as I Never Left Home is Randall's story, it is also the story of the communities of artists, writers, and radicals she belonged to. Randall brings to life scores of creative and courageous people on the front lines of creating a more just world. She also weaves political and social analyses and poetry into the narrative of her life. Moving, captivating, and astonishing, I Never Left Home is a remarkable story of a remarkable woman.Trade Review“Every Margaret Randall book or poem is a jewel to be savored, but this text may be the best yet. Beautifully written, it is Randall's first comprehensive memoir. With her moves through the 1950s' expressionist art world in New York through the 1960s Mexican literary scene, the Cuban Revolution looms large and beckons Randall to participate, which eventually brings the scrutiny of Uncle Sam attempting to strip her of her citizenship. Throughout, Randall's early and deep feminism is a guiding light.” -- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of * An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States *“Margaret Randall hails from a heroic era when poets aspired to change life. Nominally a memoir, I Never Left Home is really a full-blown autobiography, chronicling her life as a poet, a woman, a feminist, a mother, a lesbian, an incest survivor, and a participant in a quarter century of Latin American social and political revolution. Her experiences as coeditor of one of the 1960s most important international literary magazines are gripping, but it's her account of the Reagan administration's attempt to deport her from the land of her birth as an undesirable alien that makes I Never Left Home so necessary in the present moment. Few U.S. poets have dared to dream as big, fight as hard, or accomplish as much.” -- Garrett Caples, coeditor of * The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia *“Margaret Randall's life is the story of our twentieth century, with all of its lucid wonder, its dark passages and contradictions. Illuminating and enthralling.” -- Achy Obejas, author of * The Tower of the Antilles *"A revolutionary woman and remarkable writer places her long journey within the context of her conflicted past and our own divided present. . . . A striking remembrance by an intellectual whose radical, fierce nature is unflappable." * Kirkus Reviews *"Through storytelling, reflection and justifications for her life choices, hers is an exhilarating and bumpy ride through some interesting times and places and the cultures and politics she encountered, in which she attempts to capture her original impressions as well as expanding on her current views. . . . For anyone with a radical feminist perspective of society, there will be much to agree with in this memoir. For others, it is a complex reappraisal of fascinating times and places that shaped one woman’s thinking." -- Sue Turner * The Morning Star *"In these times, we need to cultivate visions of the future that break in radical, unexpected ways from the present moment. Margaret Randall’s example offers many possible entry points for dialogue on what is required of younger people today to make the level of deep, transformative change to which Margaret and her contemporaries aspired. . . ." -- Karín Aguilar-San Juan * The Mac Weekly *"Her writings are tree branches that bloom with every word. Regardless of seasons, time and circumstances Randall’s words are today’s leaves that oxygenate breathless discoveries with every moment. In the hands of whomever beholds Margaret Randall’s lived testimony, the will of strength, courage and inspiration she brings forward is felt. In a sense, Randall’s memoir transmits similar sentiments to that of Che Guevara’s personal travel dairy with keen observations and a concern for the well-being of all humanity." -- Jimmy Centeno * Sounds and Colours *"A passionate account of the perspectives of the radical generation of the 1960s as experienced by the extraordinary Margaret Randall." -- Dan Georgakas * Against the Current *"Randall’s ability to connect people and her prolific output as a writer have been her chief gifts, both in the sense of the in-grained qualities that define her character and insofar as these represent her primary contributions to the world. Randall gracefully joins these two gifts in I Never Left Home, a rich text that significantly adds to our understanding of life during some of the most important cultural moments and political events of the twentieth century." -- Zane Koss * Make *"Margaret Randall has led an extraordinary life. Fortunately, she continues to chronicle it for us. . . . Her prose corpus alone provides me with a continuing source of thought-provoking, compassionate writing that provides a significant counterpoint to that produced by so many of her contemporaries, especially male writers." -- William O. Pate II * San Antonio Review *"An extraordinary tale of several lifetimes packed into one." -- Nancy Nyland * Resources For Gender and Women's Studies *Table of Contents1. How This Book Came to Be 1 2. Where It All Started: Before My Birth and the Early Years, 1936–1947 5 3. The Landscape of Desire: High School and Beyond, 1947–1958 41 4. The Picture Plane: New York, 1958–1961 72 5. Where Stones Weep: Mexico, 1961–1969 114 6. Interlude: Escape 168 7. First Free Territory: Cuba, 1969–1980 181 8. Volcano: Nicaragua, 1980–1984 217 9. Home: 1984 and Beyond 247 Published Books 297 Notes 305 Index 315
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New York University Press The Fierce Life of Grace Holmes Carlson
Book SynopsisShares the story of the revolutionary Marxist and Catholic Grace Holmes Carlson and her life-long dedication to challenging social and economic inequalityOn December 8, 1941, Grace Holmes Carlson, the only female defendant among eighteen Trotskyists convicted under the Smith Act, was sentenced to sixteen months in federal prison for advocating the violent overthrow of the government. After serving a year in Alderson prison, Carlson returned to her work as an organizer for the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) and ran for vice president of the United States under its banner in 1948. Then, in 1952, she abruptly left the SWP and returned to the Catholic Church. With the support of the Sisters of St. Joseph, who had educated her as a child, Carlson began a new life as a professor of psychology at St. Mary's Junior College in Minneapolis where she advocated for social justice, now as a Catholic Marxist. The Fierce Life of Grace Holmes Carlson: Catholic, Socialist, Feminist is a historical bioTrade Review"With verve and empathy, Haverty-Stacke guides us through the tangle of the personal and the political in a groundbreaking gendered study of radical lives. This is not only a finely wrought portrait of the exceptional, yet all but forgotten, revolutionary Marxist Grace Carlson; it is equally an incisive investigation of human fallibility and the contradictory nature of committed socialist activism, which has too-often been curated by mythologies and fears of self-disclosure." -- Alan Wald, author of The New York Intellectuals: The Rise and Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left from the 1930s to the 1980s"Donna Haverty-Stacke’s beautifully written biography is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of American feminism, religion, or the Left. Carlson’s life as a radical activist and feminist educator illuminates a significant strain within mid-century left-feminism and the role of religious faith in shaping political and class consciousness. This deeply humane portrait offers a brilliant example of biography’s capacity to illuminate political and social history." -- Robyn Muncy, author of Relentless Reformer: Josephine Roche and Progressivism in Twentieth-Century America"This beautifully crafted biography advances the how and why of radical becoming, unbecoming, and self-development. Haverty-Stacke takes us into the neighborhoods of working-class St. Paul, the schools of Catholic orders, the tumble of 1930s Minneapolis labor struggles, the inner world of a left party, and the intimacies of radical feminism to recover the life and words of Grace Holmes Carlson, the Trotskyist activist convicted of sedition on the eve of WWII, and expands the canon of feminist thought in the process." -- Eileen Boris, Hull Professor of Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara"A magnificent biography. Donna Haverty-Stacke has done an impressive job of situating Grace Carlson within the context of her times. Never once is Haverty-Stacke condescending or patronizing toward Carlson or the communities in which she both participated and in which she found sustenance and solace. Her life is made so vivid and compelling that her death brought tears to my eyes." -- Steve Rosswurm, author of The FBI and the Catholic Church"Haverty-Stacke’s work is a biographical masterpiece…The Fierce Life of Grace Holmes Carlson: Catholic, Socialist, Feminist is highly recommended for scholars in twentieth-century American religious, labor, political and women’s history." -- A.J. Scopino * Reading Religion *
£999.99
New York University Press Social Security Disability Law and the American
Book SynopsisHow social security disability law is out of touch with the contemporary American labor market Passing down nearly a million decisions each year, more judges handle disability cases for the Social Security Administration than federal civil and criminal cases combined. In Social Security Disability Law and the American Labor Market, Jon C. Dubin challenges the contemporary policies for determining disability benefits and work assessment. He posits the fundamental questions: where are the jobs for persons with significant medical and vocational challenges? And how does the administration misfire in its standards and processes for answering that question? Deploying his profound understanding of the Social Security Administration and Disability law and policy, he demystifies the system, showing us its complex inner mechanisms and flaws, its history and evolution, and how changes in the labor market have rendered some agency processes obsolete. Dubin lays out hoTrade Review"This is an excellent, long-term overview of the social security disability programs that comes to grips with the current challenges and offers recommendations for ongoing reform. I don’t know of any project that’s assembled the history of these programs as comprehensively as Dubin has done. An excellent history by an extremely careful and well-known scholar." -- Matthew Diller, Dean and Paul Fuller Professor of Law, Fordham University Law School"A comprehensive review of the influence of labor market considerations on the evolution of the Social Security Act’s disability standard and the administrative tools used to adjudicate the ‘ability to engage in substantial gainful activity’ component of that standard. In this important book, Dubin examines the implications of a changing labor market on the availability of jobs for persons with disabilities and explores the challenges that presents to the existing structure and administration of Social Security disability programs." -- Frank Bloch, editor of The Global Clinical Movement: Educating Lawyers for Social Justice"Provides a detailed account of the longstanding and ongoing disputes among Congress, the Social Security Administration, and the courts on the fundamental question of who should be excused from working because of disability and granted economic and health care support by the government. Dubin explores the obvious flaws in the current adjudicative system, including reliance on outdated labor market data, demonstrates the fallacious assumptions of those who would make the system even harsher than it is today, and suggests sensible improvements. A must read for policy wonks, as well as serious practitioners." -- Robert E. Rains, Professor Emeritus and founder of the Disability Law Clinic, Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law
£40.50
University of Toronto Press Beyond the Welfare State
Book SynopsisNeoliberal calls for welfare state reforms, especially cuts to public pensions, are a contentious issue for employees, employers, and national governments across the western world. But what are the underlying factors that have shaped the response to these pressures in Canada and Australia? In Beyond the Welfare State, Sirvan Karimi utilizes a synthesis of Marxian class analysis and the power resources model to provide an analytical foundation for the divergent pattern of public pension systems in Canada and Australia. Karimi reveals that the postwar social contract in Australia was market-based and more conducive to the privatization of retirement income. In Canada, the social contract emphasized income redistribution that resulted in strengthening the link between the state and the citizen. By shedding light on the impact of national settings on public pension systems, Beyond the Welfare State introduces new conceptual tools to aid our understanding of Trade Review‘This is a well-written and researched book with a wealth of detail and excellent notes, bibliography and index.’ -- Andrew Podger * Journal of Pension Economics and Finance vol 16:04:2017 *Table of ContentsList of Tables Foreword Acknowledgments Acronyms Introduction 1 Review of Theoretical Perspectives on the Welfare State 2 Retirement Income Systems: Canadian and Australian Cases 3 National Settings, Class Forces and Keynesianism 4 Postwar Expansion of Pension System in Australia 5 Postwar Expansion of Pension System in Canada 6 Welfare State Restructuring and Neoliberal Variations in Canada and Australia 7 Restructuring of the Pension System in Australia 8 Restructuring of the Pension System in Canada Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£49.30
University of Toronto Press The Austerity State
Book SynopsisThe Austerity State provides a critical examination of the accepted discourse around austerity measures and explores the reasons behind its continued prevalence in the world.Trade Review"The Austerity State’s analyses of the causes and thinking behind the austerity policies of North American and European governments in our time make a very useful contribution to scholarship. The accounts here of the actual practices and social impacts of austerity policies are also so timely and up to date − and so much of the previous literature is broadly and deeply canvassed − that this book can be expected to immediately find its way onto the reading lists of a broad range of university courses." -- Leo Panitch, Senior Scholar, Emeritus Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science and Canada Chair in Comparative Political Economy, York University"The Austerity State addresses major themes that are crucial for political economy in our century." -- Paul Kellogg, Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies, Athabasca UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1 Bryan Evans (Ryerson University) and Stephen McBride (McMaster University) "The Austerity State: An Introduction" Chapter 2 Gary Teeple (Simon Fraser University) "Austerity: State Indebtedness as Class Struggle" Chapter 3 John Peters (Laurentian University) "Post Democracy and the Politics of Inequality: Explaining Policy Responses to the Financial Crisis and the Great Recession" Chapter 4 Marjorie Cohen (Simon Fraser University) "Austerity's Role in Economic Crises: The Relationship Between Social Reproduction and Economic Performance" Chapter 5 Stephen McBride and Sorin Mitrea (McMaster University) "Internalizing Neoliberalism and Austerity" Chapter 6 Simon Lee (University of Hull) "Expansionary Fiscal Consolidation and 'The Smarter State': An Evaluation of The Politics of Austerity in The United Kingdom since May 2010" Chapter 7 Brendan K. O'Rourke and John Hogan (Dublin Institute of Technology) "Frugal Comfort from Ireland: Marginal Tales from an Austere Isle" Chapter 8 Stephen McBride (McMaster University) "The New Constitutionalism and Austerity" Chapter 9 Dieter Plehwe (Berlin Social Science Research Centre) "Fighting the Financial Crisis or Consolidating Austerity? The Eurobond Battle Reconsidered" Chapter 10 Bryan Evans (Ryerson University) "Constructing Economic Policy Advice in an Age of Austerity" Chapter 11 Richard Woodward (University of Hull) "Tax Havens in an Austere World: The Clash of New Ideas and Existing Interests" Chapter 12 Heather Whiteside (University of Waterloo) "Profiting Off Austerity: Private Finance for Public Infrastructure" Chapter 13 Stephen Wilks (University of Exeter) "Austerity and Outsourcing in Britain's New Corporate State" Chapter 14 Meaghan Joy and John Shields (Ryerson University) "Austerity and the Non-Profit Sector: The Case of Social Impact Bonds" Chapter 15 Stephen McBride (McMaster University) and Bryan Evans (Ryerson University) "Conclusion"
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University of Toronto Press New Brunswick before the Equal Opportunity
Book SynopsisNew Brunswick Before the Equal Opportunity Programhighlights the experiences and observations of some of the earliest social workers in New Brunswick.Table of ContentsForeword by Nérée St-Amand 1. Introduction by Laurel Lewey, Louis J. Richard, and Linda Turner 2. A History of the Peoples of New Brunswick by Laurel Lewey, Louis J. Richard, and Linda Turner 3. Historical,Economic, and Political Contexts of Service Provision by Linda Turner 4. Poor Law Legislation and the Poverty Experience by Linda Turner and Laurel Lewey 5. Origins and Development of Social Care Agencies and Networks by Laurel Lewey and Linda Turner 6. The Evolution of Child Welfare by Laurel Lewey 7. A Portrait of New Brunswick’s Earliest Social Workers by Linda Turner 8. The First Acadian Social Workers by Louis J. Richard 9. Social Workers Experience Child Welfare: View from the Trenches by Laurel Lewey 10. Ushering in Equal Opportunity by Linda Turner, Louis J. Richard and Laurel Lewey 11. Conclusion by Laurel Lewey, Louis J. Richard, and Linda Turner Appendix 1: Origin of the New Brunswick Association of Social Workers (NBASW) Appendix 2: Biographical Sketches of Social Workers and Social Welfare Workers in New Brunswick, 1926–1966 Bibliography
£45.90
University of Toronto Press Austerity
Book SynopsisBryan M. Evans, Stephen McBride, and their contributors delve further into the more practical, ground-level side of the austerity equation in Austerity: The Lived Experience.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Austerity as Lived Experience: An Introduction Bryan Evans and Stephen McBride PART ONE: THEORY AND IDEOLOGY Introduction: Manufacturing the Common Sense of Austerity Bryan Evans and McBride Chapter 2 Articulating Austerity and Authoritarianism: Re-imagining Moral Economies? John Clarke Chapter 3 Speaking Austerity: Policy Rhetoric and Design Beyond Fiscal Consolidation Sorin Mitrea Chapter 4 No Deal Capitalism: Austerity and the Unmaking of the North American Middle Class Eric Pineault Chapter 5 Framing the Economic Case for Austerity: The "Expansionary Fiscal Contraction Hypothesis" Ellen Russell PART TWO: IMPACT AND CONSEQUENCES Introduction: Austerity on the Ground Evans and McBride Chapter 6 Care and Control in Long Term Care Work Donna Baines Chapter 7 'Negotiate Your Way Back to Zero': Teacher Bargaining and Austerity in Ontario, Canada Brendan A. Sweeny and Robert S. Hickey Chapter 8 Austerity and the Low Wage Economy: Living and Other Wages Bryan Evans, Stephen McBride, and Jacob Muirhead Chapter 9 Immigration in an Age of Austerity: Morality, the Welfare State and the Shaping of the Ideal Migrant Susan Barrass and John Shields Chapter 10 Pension reforms in the context of the global financial crisis: A reincarnation of pension privatization through austerity Yanqiu Rachel Zhou and Shih-Jiun Shi PART THREE: CLASS, RESISTANCE, ALTERNATIVES Introduction: The Old Strategies Don't Work. So What's Possible? Bryan Evans and Stephen McBride Chapter 11 From Austerity to Structural Reform: The Erosion of the European Social Model(s) Christophe Hermann Chapter 12 Austerity of Imagination: Quebec's Struggles in Translating Resistance into Alternatives Peter Graefe and Hubert Rioux Chapter 13 Social Democracy and Social Pacts: Austerity Alliances and their Consequences Bryan Evans Chapter 14 Austerity and Political Crisis: The Radical Left, the Far Right and Europe's New Authoritarian Order Neil Burron Chapter 15 Conclusion
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University of Toronto Press Female Doctors in Canada
Book SynopsisFemale Doctors in Canada is an accessible collection of articles by experienced physicians and researchers exploring how systems, practices, and individuals must change as medicine becomes an increasingly female-dominated profession.Table of ContentsPreface: Why a Book about Female Doctors? Acknowledgments Section One. Introductory Perspectives: Female Doctors in Canada 1. The Feminization of Medicine: Issues and Implications SHELLEY ROSS 2. "Unsex Me Here!" Gender as a Barrier to Female Practice: A Historical Introduction to Women Doctors in Canada Professionalization in Canada – An Annotated Timeline HEATHER STANLEY 3. Cultural Barriers within Medicine SETORME TSIKATA 4. Current State of Women in Medicine: The Statistics DEENA M. HAMZA AND SHELLEY ROSS Section Two. Navigating the Reality of Becoming and Being a Female Physician in a Traditionally Male Profession: Social and Cultural Issues 5. Gendered Experience, Role Models and Mentorship, Leadership, and the Hidden Curriculum CHERI BETHUNE 6. Female International Medical Graduates in Canada INGE SCHABORT Section Three. Career Experience: Examining Cultural Patterns within the Medical Community and Health Care System 7. Career Trajectory of Women in Medicine: Taming the Winds That Blow Us KATHLEEN GARTKE AND JANET DOLLIN 8. Quality of Life/Life-Work Balance SHELLEY ROSS Section Four. Contemporary Perspectives on Women in Medicine 9. Women Physicians as Ethical Decision Makers ERIN FREDERICKS 10. Women Physicians and New Forms of Medicine MONICA OLSEN, MAMTA GAUTAM, AND GILLIAN KERNAGHAN |11. Patients, Women Family Doctors, and Patient-Centred Care PERLE FELDMAN Section Five. Female Doctors in Canada: Futures 12. Female Doctors in Canada: The Way Forward EARLE WAUGH, SHELLEY ROSS, AND SHIRLEY SCHIPPER Contributors
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University of Toronto Press Working towards Equity
Book SynopsisIn Working towards Equity, Dustin Galer argues that paid work significantly shaped the experience of disability during the late twentieth century. Using a critical analysis of disability in archival records, personal collections, government publications and a series of interviews, Galer demonstrates how demands for greater access among disabled people for paid employment stimulated the development of a new discourse of disability in Canada. Family advocates helped people living in institutions move out into the community as rehabilitation professionals played an increasingly critical role in the lives of working-age adults with disabilities. Meanwhile, civil rights activists crafted a new consumer-led vision of social and economic integration. Employment was, and remains, a central component in disabled peoples'' efforts to become productive, autonomous and financially secure members of Canadian society. Working towards Equity offers new in-depth analysis on rights aTrade Review"This is an ambitious and largely successful book. It deserves a wide readership because of its potential to expand the historiography about work, rights and rights movements, and policy (federal and provincial) – in the style of the new disability history – by bringing a disability analysis to bear on these topics." -- Jason Ellis, University of British Columbia * H-Net Reviews *"The strength of Working towards Equity is the rich narrative the author weaves. Detail surrounding the intricacies and complex relationships among the various disability voices is provided, ensuring that this volume will be well cited for years to come. Even better is the fact that it is grounded in the employment experiences of thirty disabled people over a period of forty years." -- Mario Levesque, Mount Allison University * BC Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Illustrations Introduction 1. Disability Activism, Work and Identity 2. Family Advocacy and the Struggle for Economic Integration 3. Rehabilitation, Awareness Campaigns, and the Pursuit of Employability 4. "A Voice of Our Own": Disability Rights Activism and Struggle to Work 5. Sheltered Workshops and the Evolution of Disability Advocacy 6. Employers and the Ideological (Re)Construction of the Workplace 7. Rise and Decline of the Activist Canadian State 8. Labour Organizations, Disability Rights, and the Limitations of Social Unionism in Canada Conclusion Bibliography Notes Appendix I: Abbreviations Appendix II: Profile of Interview Participants
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University of Toronto Press The Austerity State
Book SynopsisThe fall-out from the economic and financial crisis of 2008 had profound implications for countries across the world, leading different states to determine the best approach to mitigating its effects. In The Austerity State, a group of established and emerging scholars tackles the question of why states continue to rely on policies that, on many levels, have failed. After 2008, austerity policies were implemented in various countries, a fact the contributors link to the persistence of neoliberalism and its accepted wisdoms about crisis management. In the immediate aftermath of the 2008 collapse, governments and central banks appeared to adopt a Keynesian approach to salvaging the global economy. This perception is mistaken, the authors argue. The austerian analysis of the crisis is ahistorical and shifts the blame from the under-regulated private sector to public, or sovereign, debt for which public authorities are responsible. The Austerity State provideTrade Review"The Austerity State’s analyses of the causes and thinking behind the austerity policies of North American and European governments in our time make a very useful contribution to scholarship. The accounts here of the actual practices and social impacts of austerity policies are also so timely and up to date − and so much of the previous literature is broadly and deeply canvassed − that this book can be expected to immediately find its way onto the reading lists of a broad range of university courses." -- Leo Panitch, Senior Scholar, Emeritus Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science and Canada Chair in Comparative Political Economy, York University"The Austerity State addresses major themes that are crucial for political economy in our century." -- Paul Kellogg, Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies, Athabasca UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1 Bryan Evans (Ryerson University) and Stephen McBride (McMaster University) "The Austerity State: An Introduction" Chapter 2 Gary Teeple (Simon Fraser University) "Austerity: State Indebtedness as Class Struggle" Chapter 3 John Peters (Laurentian University) "Post Democracy and the Politics of Inequality: Explaining Policy Responses to the Financial Crisis and the Great Recession" Chapter 4 Marjorie Cohen (Simon Fraser University) "Austerity's Role in Economic Crises: The Relationship Between Social Reproduction and Economic Performance" Chapter 5 Stephen McBride and Sorin Mitrea (McMaster University) "Internalizing Neoliberalism and Austerity" Chapter 6 Simon Lee (University of Hull) "Expansionary Fiscal Consolidation and 'The Smarter State': An Evaluation of The Politics of Austerity in The United Kingdom since May 2010" Chapter 7 Brendan K. O'Rourke and John Hogan (Dublin Institute of Technology) "Frugal Comfort from Ireland: Marginal Tales from an Austere Isle" Chapter 8 Stephen McBride (McMaster University) "The New Constitutionalism and Austerity" Chapter 9 Dieter Plehwe (Berlin Social Science Research Centre) "Fighting the Financial Crisis or Consolidating Austerity? The Eurobond Battle Reconsidered" Chapter 10 Bryan Evans (Ryerson University) "Constructing Economic Policy Advice in an Age of Austerity" Chapter 11 Richard Woodward (University of Hull) "Tax Havens in an Austere World: The Clash of New Ideas and Existing Interests" Chapter 12 Heather Whiteside (University of Waterloo) "Profiting Off Austerity: Private Finance for Public Infrastructure" Chapter 13 Stephen Wilks (University of Exeter) "Austerity and Outsourcing in Britain's New Corporate State" Chapter 14 Meaghan Joy and John Shields (Ryerson University) "Austerity and the Non-Profit Sector: The Case of Social Impact Bonds" Chapter 15 Stephen McBride (McMaster University) and Bryan Evans (Ryerson University) "Conclusion"
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University of Toronto Press Austerity
Book SynopsisBryan M. Evans, Stephen McBride, and their contributors delve further into the more practical, ground-level side of the austerity equation in Austerity: The Lived Experience. Economically, austerity policies cannot be seen to work in the way elite interests claim that they do. Rather than soften the blow of the economic and financial crisis of 2008 for ordinary citizens, policies of austerity slow growth and lead to increased inequality. While political consent for such policies may have been achieved, it was reached amidst significant levels of disaffection and strong opposition to the extremes of austerity. The authors build their analysis in three sections, looking alternatively at theoretical and ideological dimensions of the lived experience of austerity; how austerity plays out in various public sector occupations and policy domains; and the class dimensions of austerity. The result is a ground-breaking contribution to the study of austerity politics and policiesTable of ContentsChapter 1 Austerity as Lived Experience: An Introduction Bryan Evans and Stephen McBride PART ONE: THEORY AND IDEOLOGY Introduction: Manufacturing the Common Sense of Austerity Bryan Evans and McBride Chapter 2 Articulating Austerity and Authoritarianism: Re-imagining Moral Economies? John Clarke Chapter 3 Speaking Austerity: Policy Rhetoric and Design Beyond Fiscal Consolidation Sorin Mitrea Chapter 4 No Deal Capitalism: Austerity and the Unmaking of the North American Middle Class Eric Pineault Chapter 5 Framing the Economic Case for Austerity: The "Expansionary Fiscal Contraction Hypothesis" Ellen Russell PART TWO: IMPACT AND CONSEQUENCES Introduction: Austerity on the Ground Evans and McBride Chapter 6 Care and Control in Long Term Care Work Donna Baines Chapter 7 'Negotiate Your Way Back to Zero': Teacher Bargaining and Austerity in Ontario, Canada Brendan A. Sweeny and Robert S. Hickey Chapter 8 Austerity and the Low Wage Economy: Living and Other Wages Bryan Evans, Stephen McBride, and Jacob Muirhead Chapter 9 Immigration in an Age of Austerity: Morality, the Welfare State and the Shaping of the Ideal Migrant Susan Barrass and John Shields Chapter 10 Pension reforms in the context of the global financial crisis: A reincarnation of pension privatization through austerity Yanqiu Rachel Zhou and Shih-Jiun Shi PART THREE: CLASS, RESISTANCE, ALTERNATIVES Introduction: The Old Strategies Don't Work. So What's Possible? Bryan Evans and Stephen McBride Chapter 11 From Austerity to Structural Reform: The Erosion of the European Social Model(s) Christophe Hermann Chapter 12 Austerity of Imagination: Quebec's Struggles in Translating Resistance into Alternatives Peter Graefe and Hubert Rioux Chapter 13 Social Democracy and Social Pacts: Austerity Alliances and their Consequences Bryan Evans Chapter 14 Austerity and Political Crisis: The Radical Left, the Far Right and Europe's New Authoritarian Order Neil Burron Chapter 15 Conclusion
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Cornell University Press Dismantling Solidarity
Book SynopsisWhy has old-age security become less solidaristic and increasingly tied to risky capitalist markets? Drawing on rich archival data that covers more than fifty years of American history, Michael A. McCarthy argues that the critical driver was policymakers'' reactions to capitalist crises and their political imperative to promote capitalist growth.Pension development has followed three paths of marketization in America since the New Deal, each distinct but converging: occupational pension plans were adopted as an alternative to real increases in Social Security benefits after World War II, private pension assets were then financialized and invested into the stock market, and, since the 1970s, traditional pension plans have come to be replaced with riskier 401(k) retirement plans. Comparing each episode of change, Dismantling Solidarity mounts a forceful challenge to common understandings of America's private pension system and offers an alternative political economy of the welfTrade ReviewOffers not only an excellent and comprehensive overview but also a critical discussion of how the retirement security system has developed in the United States since World War II. With [McCarthy's] in-depth understanding of the U.S. welfare state, labor relations in general, and old-age security in particular, the author has written a coherent and informative book.... A great book that gives a masterful overview of howold-age security has developed in the United States, and it explains these developments with convincing arguments.Without any hesitation, I would recommend Dismantling Solidarity to a broad readership, including researchers and students in sociology, history, political science, and economics as well as stakeholders and policymakers. * American Journal of Sociology *McCarthy navigates his theoretical terrain deftly and efficiently, taking the heavily dog-eared body of structuralist-Marxist state theory (Block, O’Connor, Offe, and Poulantzas) and makes it feel fresh.... Dismantling Solidarity joins a welcome influx of new scholarship that, in its framing and focus, calls attention to the fact that ours is a political moment that hungers for smart class analysis. * International Journal of Comparative Sociology *As McCarthy rightly points out, the connection between developments of the welfare state and state management of economic crises has been drawn before. McCarthy's contribution, apart from skillfully tracing the history of the private pension system... is his explanation for and analysis of the contingency of retirement income. Dismantling Solidarity is an excellent account of the history of private pensions, but it is also a window into the future. * Political Science Quarterly *Table of Contents1. The Retirement Puzzle 2. Capitalist Crisis and Pension Insecurity 3. Reconversion and the Origin of Bargained Plans 4. Turning Labor into Finance Capital 5. Toward the 401(k) Ownership Society 6. Conclusions
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Cornell University Press Still a Mother
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis book fits nicely within the feminist literature on mothering and raises significant questions about the gendered demands and distribution of childcare, as well as the criteria and practice of child custody processes. * Choice *Table of Contents1. A Contradiction in Terms 2. The Mothers 3. She Must Have Done Something 4. Still a Mother 5. Father of the Year 6. Manufacturing Bad Mothers 7. Still in an Abusive Relationship 8. Lessons Learned
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Cornell University Press Still a Mother
Book SynopsisJackie Krasas traces the trajectories of mothers who have lost or ceded custody to an ex-partner. She argues that these noncustodial mothers'' experiences should be understood within a greater web of gendered social institutions such as employment, education, health care, and legal systems that shapes the meanings of contemporary motherhood in the United States. If motherhood means being there, then noncustodial mothers, through their absence, are seen as nonmothers. They are anti-mothers to be reviled. At the very least, these mothers serve as cautionary tales.Still a Mother questions the existence of an objective method for determining custody of children and challenges the best-interests standard through a feminist, reproductive justice lens. The stories of noncustodial mothers that Krasas relates shed light on marriage and divorce, caregiving, gender violence, and family court. Unfortunately, much of the contemporary discussion of child custody determination is domTrade ReviewThis book fits nicely within the feminist literature on mothering and raises significant questions about the gendered demands and distribution of childcare, as well as the criteria and practice of child custody processes. * Choice *Table of Contents1. A Contradiction in Terms 2. The Mothers 3. She Must Have Done Something 4. Still a Mother 5. Father of the Year 6. Manufacturing Bad Mothers 7. Still in an Abusive Relationship 8. Lessons Learned
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Stanford University Press Manifesto for a Dream: Inequality, Constraint,
Book SynopsisA searing critique of our contemporary policy agenda, and a call to implement radical change. Although it is well known that the United States has an inequality problem, the social science community has failed to mobilize in response. Social scientists have instead adopted a strikingly insipid approach to policy reform, an ostensibly science-based approach that offers incremental, narrow-gauge, and evidence-informed "interventions." This approach assumes that the best that we can do is to contain the problem. It is largely taken for granted that we will never solve it. In Manifesto for a Dream, Michelle Jackson asserts that we will never make strides toward equality if we do not start to think radically. It is the structure of social institutions that generates and maintains social inequality, and it is only by attacking that structure that progress can be made. Jackson makes a scientific case for large-scale institutional reform, drawing on examples from other countries to demonstrate that reforms that have been unthinkable in the United States are considered to be quite unproblematic in other contexts. She persuasively argues that an emboldened social science has an obligation to develop and test the radical policies that would be necessary for equality to be assured for all.Trade Review"Jackson urges scientists to step up and build visions of change that support communities in their fight for justice. She sets the path for radical change that is attainable to save our society from further deterioration—and to realize the Dream of equality on which our government was founded. Change requires all of us—including academics. Let's all heed her call—we cannot afford to wait." * Dolores Huerta *"Should we bind the fates of rich and poor children together, so that if one rises or falls, the other does too? Should we outlaw practices that generate inequality? Should education be reserved for the first two decades of life or should we promote lifelong learning? These are some of the questions Michelle Jackson raises in this thought-provoking book. Manifesto for a Dream dispenses with tinkering around the edges to advocate for a social science that embraces radical reforms to reduce inequality. This is a book to wrestle with." -- Matthew Desmond * Princeton University *"A searing analysis and reckoning with what it will take to ensure the 'dream' extends to those who have been so long denied it. An exceptionally creative and hopeful vision for what America could become. Now is the time to embrace this bold vision." -- Kathryn J. Edin * author of $2.00 a Day *"Grounded in justice, this book provides an essential critique and call to arms for the academy, and social scientists, in particular, to alter our ways of facilitating the status-quo of growing inequality, and, instead, to more directly promote radical reform to a system that has generated institutions that serve the elite and constraint the rest. I applaud Michelle Jackson for setting an example and providing a blueprint for anyone who wants to understand the necessary role of academics for an authentic solution to unjust inequality." -- Darrick Hamilton * The New School *"[Manifesto for a Dream] invites readers to rethink the limited and isolated social proposals present today, and to generate large-scale policy interventions to address the larger, more complex, interconnected network of advantage and disadvantage that unfairly limits access to societal resources. Recommended." -- K. M. McKinley * CHOICE *
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