Resist the Punitive State. Grassroots Struggles Across Welfare, Housing, Education and Prisons, Paperback - ***

What do we do when housing, mental health, disability, prisons and immigration policy become synonymous with state violence?

This book explores welfare politics, unemployment, and interventions in relation to the labour market from a critical psychological perspective.Pub...

Combining an intellectual history of social policy with a sweeping history of the educational system, Daniel S. Moak looks beyond the rise of neoli...

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The global struggles against racism, capitalism, and patriarchy revealed by the Black and Indigneous women and trans communities leading its resist...

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The rise of mass incarceration in the United States is one of the most critical outcomes of the last half-century. Incarceration Nation offers the ...

Higher education has long been contested terrain. From student movements to staff unions, the fight for accessible, critical and quality public edu...

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Miguel PerezNumber of pages: 264Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 151 x 229 x 18Cover type: Paperbac...

Bridging housing studies and social policy, this book analyses competing interpretations of the role and value of social housing in the UK. The aut...

Provides a politics-based explanation for the post-1980 transformation of the Turkish welfare system, in which poor relief policies have replaced e...

Publisher: Prometheus BooksAuthor(s): Zara StoneIllustration(s): 31 Illustrations including: - 31 Halftones, Black & White including Black and Whit...

COVID-19 has transformed the British welfare state. The government has created millions of new beneficiaries, spent tens of billions of pounds it d...

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Publisher: Verlag Barbara BudrichNumber of pages: 139Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 209 x 147 x 21Cover type: PaperbackEditor(s): Philipp Sander...

The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State is the authoritative and definitive guide to the contemporary welfare state.Publisher: Oxford University P...

The Welfare State Reader has established itself as a vital source of outstanding original research since its original appearance in 2000.

The sixth edition of this successful textbook discusses the different parts of the welfare system and, in particular, cash benefits, the health ser...

Reducere. A conservative, bipartisan consensus dominates the discussion about what's wrong with our schools and how to fix them. It offers ``solutions`` that...

The Covid-19 pandemic has tragically exposed how today's welfare state cannot properly protect its citizens. Despite the valiant efforts of public ...

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A majestic one-hundred-year study of segregation in Los AngelesCity of Segregation documents one hundred years of struggle against the enforced sep...

DescriptionA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceResponsibility--which once meant the moral duty to help and support others--has come to be e...

Building Stronger Communities is an introductory textbook that provides guidelines, frameworks and a range of approaches to help plan and implement...

An accessible and entertaining narrative history of the establishment, development and unravelling of the British Welfare State - now fully revised...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Walter I. TrattnerOver twenty-five years and through five editions, Walter I. Trattner's From Poor Law to Welfare State has...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Elisabeth AndersonIllustration(s): 22 b/w illus. 14 tables.Number of pages: 384Collection: Princeto...

Compares welfare state politics before and after the Great Recession arguing that a new and lasting post-crisis dynamic has emerged where political...

Reducere. Until recently, dominant theoretical paradigms in the comparative social sciences did not highlight states as organizational structures or as poten...

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Since the end of the draft, the U.S. Army has prided itself on its patriotic volunteers who heed the call to "Be All That You Can Be." But beneath ...

At a time of renewed concern about health, social care, and national unity, the authors reassert the value of the Welfare State for society as a wh...

As globalization processes and related neoliberal agendas promote privatization through state action, people's struggles for rights to water have i...

This book explores, theoretically and empirically, the consequences of 'Big Data' for the politics of social protection. It argues that the informa...

Reducere. At the time when Robinson wrote this book, the largest known source of radioactive contamination of the world's environment was a government-owned ...

NEW EDITION FOR THE 75th ANNIVERSARY OF THE BEVERIDGE REPORT The classic and entertaining narrative history of the establishment, development and u...

The founding of the welfare state in the 1940s was one of the crowning achievements of modern British history - or was it? In this work James Barth...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Jennifer (Professor of History, Professor of History, Yale University) KleinIllustration(s): 12 il...

Publisher: Lit VerlagAuthor(s): Sascha RothNumber of pages: 256Collection: Halle Studies in the Anthropology of EurasiaPublication date: 2021Dimens...

Addressing the rapidly shifting politics of the minimum wage in six English-speaking countries, Shaun Wilson analyses minimum wage policies within ...

Sick Note is a history of how the British state asked, 'who is really sick?' Tracing medical certification for absence from work from 1948 to 2010,...

Publisher: Berghahn BooksNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 229 x 184 x 24Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Nils Edling...

Reducere. This book provides social workers, outreach clinicians, case managers, and concerned community members with a pretreatment guide for assisting home...

It is often argued that the regulated labour markets, relatively generous social protection and relative wage equality of European welfare states h...

Reducere. Fran ois Ewald's landmark The Birth of Solidarity--first published in French in 1986, revised in 1996, with the revised edition appearing here in E...

This book clarifies decolonial efforts to transform higher education from its anti-Black foundation, offering hope from universities across the con...

Bryan Fanning traces the development of European welfare states in this accessible analysis of social change from the Industrial Revolution onwards...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Prisons Information GroupIllustration(s): 5 B-W IllustrationsTranslator: Erik BeranekNumber of p...

Although there is a consensus in Europe that it is the government's responsibility to ensure the welfare of its citizens, there are calls to roll b...