Tag: Welfare

Free Download Digitalization and the Welfare State
English | 2022 | ISBN: 0192848364 | 433 Pages | PDF (True) | 8 MB
This volume explores how digitalization-in different forms-affects the welfare state. Digitalization is likely to have a lasting impact on work, welfare, and the distribution of income. It will radically transform not only social risks in health, education and the labour market, but also the means by which these risks are addressed. The volume studies how digitalization affects policies as well as the underlying power relationship between actors, i.e. the politics

Free Download Work and Welfare by Robert M. Solow, Amy Gutmann
English | 1998 | ISBN: 0691058830 | 112 Pages | PDF | 6.9 MB
The Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Solow directs his attention here to one of today’s most controversial social issues: how to get people off welfare and into jobs.

Free Download Ke-Chin Hsia, "Victims’ State: War and Welfare in Austria, 1868-1925"
English | ISBN: 0197582370 | 2022 | 360 pages | PDF | 6 MB
The belligerent country that literally started the First World War, the Habsburg Empire suffered grievously during the global conflict. At the end of the war, it was estimated that 1.2 million soldiers, out of 8 million men and 100,000 women mobilized from an empire of 52 million, perished in service. Among those who lived, the wounded, the disabled, and their dependents constituted at least several million people whose survival was endangered both during and after the war. How did the Habsburg Empire confront the scale of the casualties brought about by the First World War? What care and support were offered to disabled soldiers and dead soldiers’ surviving dependents?

Free Download Welfare: Brief Books about Big Ideas (Reflections) by Carsten Jensen
English | January 16th, 2024 | ISBN: 1421444747 | 60 pages | True EPUB | 0.58 MB
A short but engaging look at how nations have succeeded and failed at welfare.

Free Download The Fundamental Institution : Poverty, Social Welfare, and Agriculture in American Poor Farms
by Megan Birk
English | 2022 | ISBN: 025204438X | 302 Pages | True PDF | 20 MB

Free Download Kyungbae Chung, "The Korean Welfare State: Social Investment in an Aging Society "
English | ISBN: 0197644929 | 2024 | 240 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 9 MB

Free Download John J. Rodger, "The Welfare System and the Social Lifeworld"
English | ISBN: 152753720X | 2019 | 182 pages | PDF | 823 KB
The key questions addressed in this book relate to how we should understand social welfare today. Is it a mechanism for promoting the virtues of altruism and other-regarding social values through the design of compassionate social policies which seek to enhance the quality of social relationships between citizens, or, is it a self-reproducing sub-system of law and politics which operates in accordance with its own internal logic, independently of the human agents who try to steer it towards benign social outcomes? This book questions whether the language of the enlightenment is the most appropriate to describe a socio-political project that is struggling to keep pace with the rapidly changing economic and political conditions which now exist in a neo-liberal global world. The main sociological theorists guiding the analysis here are Niklas Luhmann, Jürgen Habermas and Norbert Elias, among others. The key themes analysed in the book are street-level bureaucracy and the interface between the welfare system and the citizen; sensemaking in welfare organisations and in society; the relationship between lay morality and the policy making process; the link between the third sector and philanthrocapitalism; and the emotional dimension of social policy, especially in relation to social work practice. It will appeal to social science students of social and political theory, as well as those seeking an understanding of the changing context of contemporary issues in social policy.

Free Download Jerome H. Schiele, "Social Welfare Policy: Regulation and Resistance Among People of Color"
English | ISBN: 1412971039 | 2010 | 392 pages | EPUB | 1274 KB
Applying the social control paradigm to people of color, this text uses a racism-centered perspective of social welfare policy analysis to examine how such policies have regulated the lives of people of color and then employs a strengths-based approach to describe how they have refused to go along with the oppressive features of these policies. It illuminates the need for culturally competent social welfare policy practitioners, illustrating how racism continues to be at the center of many contemporary social problems such as issues of employment, public and bilingual education, housing and residential patterns, citizens′ rights, and affirmative action―and of the social welfare policies used to address these issues.

Free Download Robert Sykes, D. Bouget, Pauline M. Prior, "Globalization and European Welfare States: Challenges and Change"
English | 2001 | ISBN: 0333790189, 0333792394 | PDF | pages: 251 | 9.2 mb
This book seeks to counter the recent trend of speculation about the impact of globalization upon welfare states. It begins by asking two related questions:

Free Download Chris Jones, "Poverty, Welfare and the Disciplinary State (The State of Welfare)"
English | 1999 | pages: 232 | ISBN: 0415182905, 0415182891 | EPUB | 0,5 mb
In a forward looking appraisal of the welfare state, Poverty, Welfare and the Disciplinary State examines such issues as: *the current dynamics of poverty in Britain, drawing on similar developments in Europe and the US *the major areas of social policy within which this abandonment and demonisation of the poor is taking place *the historical antecendents to this relationship between the state and the poor *the creation and expansion of a ‘welfare’ state that characterised the era of social democracy until the mid-1970s and from the point of view of the poor, was limited and conditional *the ideology and organisation of the New Right *the new terrain on which the struggle over the future of welfare and social policy must take place.