Description
Book SynopsisDesigned as a text for students studying Social Work and Welfare. Offers differing methods of dealing with Welfare policies in different societies of the world.
Trade Review'Students could do no better than keep this volume with them. It is a comprehensive and reliable guide' -- Professor David Coates, Director of the International Centre for Labour Studies, University of Manchester
'A comprehensive intellectual map enabling the reader to grasp the essence of a vast literature on social issues and developed welfare states' -- Professor Bob Deacon, University of Sheffield
'Very topical ... It contains some revealing insights into the nature of welfare policy and is well worth reading' -- News Line
'Its extraordinary range and its author's eye for detail make this an invaluably comprehensive study ... Essential reading' -- Spectre
Table of Contents1. General explanatory perspectives
2. Central concepts in social policy
3. Perspectives on social policy development
4. Social Policy Strategies
5. Social policy issues
6. Social intervention and vulnerable groups in Britain
7. The diversity of welfare states
8. The developed anglophone welfare states
9. Globalisation and social policy
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Index
