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Sometime between 1964 and 1994, the war on poverty turned into a war on the poor, with the Republicans and Democrats blaming them for their own poverty. This book provides the defence for these people, examining welfare for children and families, wages and classes, and orphanages.

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In this extraordinary sequel to his bestselling The Welfare State We're In

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A fascinating examination of those political problems that never get solved.

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Violent Order explores the everyday practices of police and policing as modes of violence in the fabrication of social order.

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Shows how creating weaker forms of judicial review may actually allow for stronger social welfare rights under American constitutional law. This book describes how weak-form review works in Great Britain and Canada and discusses the extent to which legislatures can be expected to enforce constitutional norms on their own.

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Geoghegan explains the appeal of "boring" Germany, where workers sit as directors on the big corporate boards and ordinary people have six weeks off and retire with pensions like golden parachutes. Free public goods, a bit of worker control, and whopping trade surpluses . . . the German version of "European socialism" doesn't sound too bad.

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Provides a clear and accessible guide to the major components of Australia's anti-terrorism laws and their effects. Shows what constitutes a crime of terrorism in Australia, and what happens when the authorities seek a control order or an order of preventative detention over an individual.

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Analyzes the history of the U.S. child welfare system and its implications today, offering ideas for reform and building solidarity.

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It has been suggested that policy analysis has come to serve the needs of the state at the expense of the citizens. This book offers a critique of how welfare policy is analyzed and set in the USA, illustrating that how we study issues affects what ultimately gets done about them.

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Former US Army Ranger walks across America for a fallen comrade and finds his voice as a war resister.

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This thematic and historical overview provides a guide to key welfare practices and developments in the public, private, voluntary and informal welfare sectors in twentieth-century Britain, outlining the dominant ideas about welfare in the period in question.

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The book argues that care management could create changes in the operation of British social services departments, but that it also embodies the values of the social work profession. It explores how the job of the front line social worker and line manager in social service departments might be changed by the implementation of care management.

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This book provides a critical account of British social policy since 1945 from the perspective of the child. Using the UN convention on the Rights of the Child as a yardstick, it examines a range of policy areas including health, education, housing, social security, child care and protection.

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The articles are organised into four sections - Community, Care, Policy and Practice - and cover autobiographical and experiential accounts as well as writings drawn from sociology, psychology, social policy, history, social work and community activism.

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This text introduces the reader to the comparative study of housing policy. It looks at the benefits and limitations of the comparative method, as well as the reasons behind governmental involvement in housing and policy choices.

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This text covers three separate but related areas of family violence and abuse. It enables comparisons and contrasts to be made between child, adult and elderly abuse.

A landmark three-volume reference work documenting philanthropy and the nonprofit sector throughout American history, edited by the field's most widely recognized authority.

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The contributors to this book examine the issues involved in what direction British policing should take. Should it promote itself as a police force, dedicated to the attack on crime and public disorder, or should it adopt the mantle of police service, devoted to providing reassurance

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Relief workers face rapidly changing and complex environments, new disease patterns, enormous humanitarian needs and relatively limited resources. The authors of this book use their experience in the area to produce an operational manual of the issues involved in refugee health programmes.

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Social Security in Britain provides an analysis of the social security system in Britain. As well as covering the historical and comparative context, the book explains today's complex system in simple terms. Current issues, such as the policy debate around welfare reform and the effects of the social security system, are also discussed.

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Focusing on nursing, remedial therapy and social work, this book examines core social values expressed through policy. The implications of these ideas for the caring professions in social welfare are explored, as are questions about the use of industrial and commercial metaphors in health and human services.