Now featuring a full color design, the best-selling text for policy analysis provides students with a comprehensive overview of social welfare policy in the United States while examining cutting-edge issues. Thoroughly updated and revised to reflect the impact of dramatic changes in social welfare policy, the Fifth Edition continues to focus on ...
Controversial Issues in Social Policy is an edited collection of contemporary social policy debates argued between some of the foremost thinkers in the field of social work as well as prominent authors in other fields. Its 16 debate topics were selected to cover a wide range of professional interests in the field of social policy and are divided ...
This best-selling text provides a comprehensive overview of social welfare policy in the United States while examining such cutting-edge issues as technology and social welfare policy and the relationship between tax policy and social welfare policy. American Social Welfare Policy examines how the major sectors of social welfare policy-the ...
The recent surge in reports of child abuse in the USA prompted this study, which questions whether current responses to the problem are adequate. The authors trace the cultural, social and legal factors that have shaped the history of child abuse and responses to it since the 1870s. The public response to child abuse is detailed, from the creation ...
"Shortchanged" exposes how America's "fringe economy" - the booming industry of check cashers, payday lenders, pawnshops, and so on - that prey on the poor and middle class. This is the first book to chronicle how the fringe economy ruthlessly and systematically exploits the poor and middle classes. The number of people affected by the fringe ...
The Internet and Technology for the Human Services is a highly accessible guide that take human services students and professionals through the process of preparing for, getting on, and using the Internet. Providing an overview of the Internet, the guide shows specific applications of the Internet, uses minimal technical jargon. It shows how to ...
An understanding of the diverse and complex American social welfare system is tackled in this work, which discusses the social factors involved in creating and implementing policy. Also detailed are the policy changes effected under the Reagan and Bush administrations and a view of the future.
Although the relationship between social work and organized labor dates from the turn of the century, labor union membership has only been open to social workers since the late 1930s. Consequently, the relationship between the profession and the unions is still in its infancy. This volume presents a selection of essays that examine a variety of ...
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From Poor Law to Welfare State, 6th Edition: A History of Social Welfare in America
