Social policy
Social Policy Review 25
Analysis and Debate in Social Policy, 2013
This latest edition of Social Policy Review presents an up-to-date and diverse review of the best in social policy scholarship with a special focus on work, employment and insecurity.
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Regulating International Students’ Wellbeing
Using international and cross-country comparative analysis, this book explores how governments influence international student welfare, and how students shape their own opportunities.
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Reclaiming Individualism
Perspectives on Public Policy
Reclaiming individualism reviews the scope of individualist approaches, and considers how they apply to issues of policy. It argues for a concept of individualism based on rights, human dignity, shared interests and social protection.
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School Admissions and Accountability
Planning, Choice or Chance?
Providing integrated coverage of the policy, practice and outcomes from 1944 to 2012, this book addresses the issues relevant to school admissions arising from three different approaches adopted in this period: planning via local authorities, quasi-market mechanisms, and random allocation.
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The Squeezed Middle
The Pressure on Ordinary Workers in America and Britain
"The squeezed middle" brings together leading experts from both sides of the Atlantic to ask what the UK can learn from the US experience of stagnating wages and rising living costs.
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Gypsies and Travellers
Empowerment and Inclusion in British Society
This topical book examines and debates a range of themes facing Gypsies and Travellers in British Society, including health, social policy, employment and education.
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The Unfinished Revolution
Voices from the Global Fight for Women's Rights
The unfinished revolution: Voices from the global fight for women's rights tells the legal and political history of the battle to secure basic rights for women and girls with essays by more than 30 writers, activists, policymakers and human rights experts, and contributions from women who have been victims of human rights abuses.
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Towards a Social Investment Welfare State?
Ideas, Policies and Challenges
This book maps out the contours of the European 'social investment' strategy, both at the ideational level and in terms of the policies implemented throughout Europe. It will appeal to both social policy scholars and policy experts.
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Care in Everyday Life
An Ethic of Care in Practice
In this wide-ranging book, Marian Barnes argues for care as an essential value in private lives and public policies, considering the importance of care to well-being and social justice and applying insights from feminist care ethics to care work, and care within personal relationships.
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Social Policy Review 24
Analysis and Debate in Social Policy, 2012
Social Policy Review is essential reading for social policy academics and students and for anyone who is interested in the implications of government policy.
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The Political Economy of Work Security and Flexibility
Italy in Comparative Perspective
This book casts light on the empirical relationship between labour market deregulation through non-standard contracts and the three main dimensions of worker security: employment, income and social security.
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Social Capital, Children and Young People
Implications for Practice, Policy and Research
Social capital, children and young people is about the relationships and networks - social capital - that children and young people have in and out of school.
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