{"product_id":"social-policy-for-the-twentyfirst-century-new-perspectives-big-issues-9780745636078","title":"Social Policy for the TwentyFirst Century  New","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the new century, governments face three challenges for their social policies. Their efforts to improve their citizens' well-being must be consistent with the development of the world economy, and should if possible enhance the situation of the poorest populations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In more than 20 books, Bill Jordan has made a unique contribution to topical debates in social policy and international perspectives on welfare. \u003ci\u003eSocial Policy for the Twenty-First Century\u003c\/i\u003e fits the track record. It is imaginative and wide ranging. Jordan has a gift for writing in a way that combines challenging ideas with readability ... This is an excellent overview of social policy on the world stage.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTimes Higher Education Supplement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e“A \u003ci\u003etour de force\u003c\/i\u003e, presenting a powerful critical analysis of the most significant and politically important issues in social policy today. This book deserves to be read by a far wider audience than social policy academics and students.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJournal of Social Welfare and Family Law\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Provides rich materials, mostly based on aggregated comparative data or impressive case studies, that attain a truly global reach [and] with a comprehensive and far-reaching view on relevant issues and current trends and puts forward important analytical challenges opening the field to social policy theory and empirical research to be developed in the years to come.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Bill Jordan's magpie approach to scholarship once again enables him to pick up for scrutiny all the big issues of the day; the impact of the global economy and global policies upon welfare systems, the conversion of welfare users from citizens into consumers, the stalling of well-being and the problems of sustainability. His creative imagination links all of these issues and leads him to ask whether cosmopolitanism and a grand global social contract such as implied by a global basic income would be the way to reconcile individual autonomy, collective belonging and sustainability.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eBob Deaconm, \u003ci\u003eUniversity of Sheffield\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Social Policy for the Twenty-First Century provides a thoughtful and comprehensive analysis of soical policies and their roles in the transformations in human development, economic development, social relations, politics, redistribution, and social justice in the current intensely globalized era. The volume is most impressive in its truly global reach, and in the fascinating cases that serve as examples of the complex issues of wellbeing and policy.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJoya Misra, \u003ci\u003eUniversity of Massachusetts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Claims to have captured what is at stake for the social policies of the new century are often hyperbole. Not here. Bill Jordan's readers are sometimes invited to contemplate a vast landscape; sometimes required to dive down and explore the local setails. The ride is always exhilarating. By challenging the 'common sense' of the existing welfare consensus Jordan underlines the point of academic and political inquiry: to help create the common sense of the future.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eTony Fitzpatrick, \u003ci\u003eUniversity of Nottingham\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Tables. \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction and Themes of the Book.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart I Social Policy and the Global Economy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSection 1A Human Development and Redistribution.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 1 New Models of Human Development.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 2 The Scope for Redistribution and Social Justice.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSection 1B How the World Works.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 3 Explaining the New Global Division of Labour.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 4 Social Policy, Credit and Debt.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSection 1C Commercial Provision of Social Services.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 5 The Global Market in Services - Health Care.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 6 The Business Agenda in Education.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart II Human Well-Being: Autonomy and Membership.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 7 The Basis for Individualism and Choice.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 8 The Transformation of Collective Provision.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 9 The Transformation of Citizenship.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 10 'Stalled Well-Being'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart III Global Social Justice: The Big Issues.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 11 Community, Morality and Belonging.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 12 The Role of Social Services in the Social Context.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 13 Interdependence, Development and Justice: A Cosmopolitan World Order.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 14 Sustainable Development.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404372746583,"sku":"9780745636078","price":54.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745636078.jpg?v=1730486258","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/social-policy-for-the-twentyfirst-century-new-perspectives-big-issues-9780745636078","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}