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Télécharger le livre :  Eldercare Work in Contemporary China
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Eldercare Work in Contemporary China


Zhe Yan


This book gives voice to an indispensable yet often overlooked group of care workers in China’s eldercare industry. Drawing on rich, first-hand accounts from frontline care workers and interwoven with a wealth of sociological insights, the author offers a critical...

Parution : 2025-08-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Assistance to Ukrainian War Refugees in Central Europe (2022-2024)
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Assistance to Ukrainian War Refugees in Central Europe (2022-2024)


Malgorzata Dziekonska , Kamil Luczaj


This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the unprecedented situation following the later stages of the war in Ukraine in 2022. It explores the experiences of millions of Ukrainians who sought refuge in neighboring countries and examines the wide-ranging support they...

Parution : 2025-08-18
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Télécharger le livre :  The Generosity of Social Policies in Socialist and Post-Socialist States
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The Generosity of Social Policies in Socialist and Post-Socialist States


Monika Ewa Kaminska , Andreas Heinrich , Heiko Pleines , Tobias Ten Brink


This open access book maps and compares national social policies of socialist and post-socialist countries, examining designs, implementation, and outcomes. It analyses how the generosity of social policies – understood as the combination of their inclusiveness...

Parution : 2025-07-11
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Télécharger le livre :  The Politics of European Food Aid Policy from Delors to von der Leyen
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The Politics of European Food Aid Policy from Delors to von der Leyen


Ilaria Madama


This book provides a theoretically informed, empirically grounded account of the origin, expansion, and institutionalization of the EU's action against food poverty and severe material deprivation. In doing so, the analysis spans more than three decades, from the...

Parution : 2025-06-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Cohousing in Italy
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Cohousing in Italy


Manuela Maggio


This book investigates cohousing in Italy, a housing model that is both underused and often overlooked. By engaging cohousers’ stories and applying a sociological lens, it brings to light their lived experiences while tracing the history and evolution of this...

Parution : 2025-02-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Societal Value of Welfare Politics, Policies and Services
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Societal Value of Welfare Politics, Policies and Services


Tanja Klenk , Mirko Noordegraaf , Elisabetta Notarnicola , Karsten Vrangbæk


Welfare state governance is about tackling social issues, empowering citizens, and adding societal value. It is also about improving public health and quality of life, alleviating inequality, and reducing social polarization. Bringing together researchers from around...

Parution : 2024-12-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Civil Society Elites in the Italian Third Sector
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Civil Society Elites in the Italian Third Sector


Cecilia Santilli , Roberto Scaramuzzino


This open access book unveils the hidden elite of Italy's third sector, offering a rare glimpse into the lives and minds of civil society's most influential leaders. Bridging elite and civil society studies, it presents pioneering research on these powerful yet...

Parution : 2024-11-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Caring for the Socially Marginalised in Interwar Europe, 1919–1939
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Caring for the Socially Marginalised in Interwar Europe, 1919–1939


Michele Mioni , Stefano Petrungaro


This book investigates the mixed economy of welfare that assisted socially marginalised people in interwar Europe, namely the state, local authorities, and a combination of voluntary and informal actors. While literature has traditionally emphasised the key role of the...

Parution : 2024-11-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Neoliberal Crises and the Academisation of the English School System
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Neoliberal Crises and the Academisation of the English School System


Ian Dewes


This book examines the impact of neoliberalism on the academisation of the English school system. The growth of multi-academy trusts (MATs) has been a significant change in the English educational landscape. While some schools have been forced to join MATs, many of them...

Parution : 2024-06-17
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Télécharger le livre :  Action on Poverty in the UK
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Action on Poverty in the UK


Collectif


This book tackles poverty and policy issues in the UK by discussing successful projects and practices, across lots of short chapters. The first section provides a brief history overview of poverty in the UK over the past two hundred years and discusses the question of...

Parution : 2023-09-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Privatization of Early Childhood Education and Care in Nordic Countries
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Privatization of Early Childhood Education and Care in Nordic Countries


Steinunn Hrafnsdóttir , Maiju Paananen , Karl Henrik Sivesind , Håkon Solbu Trætteberg


This book explores the increasing role of private providers in early childhood education and care (ECEC) as they become a core part of the Nordic welfare model—one that once rejected for-profit involvement in public welfare. Within this context, ECEC has become the key...

Parution : 2023-09-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Toward a Biopsychosocial Welfare State?
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Toward a Biopsychosocial Welfare State?


Mareike Ariaans , Nadine Reibling


This open access book analyses the idea that medicine and psychology have a substantial (and underestimated) impact on Western welfare states. Based on mixed-methods analyses conducted in Germany, it analyses this influence on debates and policies related to...

Parution : 2023-09-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Men, Families, and Poverty
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Men, Families, and Poverty


Kahryn Hughes , Anna Tarrant


This book develops a new sociology of the intergenerational and longitudinal dynamics of men’s family participation in relation to their trajectories through poverty. By addressing the ostensible absence of men from low-income families in existing literature and policy,...

Parution : 2023-03-27
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Télécharger le livre :  The Failure of the Neo-Liberal Approach to Poverty
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The Failure of the Neo-Liberal Approach to Poverty


Brian Caterino


This book examines the foundation and progress of the Rochester Monroe Anti-Poverty Initiative (RMAPI). Poverty has once again become a major issue in American cities, and nowhere more so than Rochester, which has one of the highest rates of poverty in the...

Parution : 2022-09-06
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Télécharger le livre :  The Welfare State System and Common Security
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The Welfare State System and Common Security


B. Vivekanandan


This book argues that the welfare state system should be adopted globally, not only for the purpose of achieving equality and justice within nations, but also for security between states. Using Finland, Sweden and Canada as case studies, it theorises that the...

Parution : 2022-08-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Resourceful Civil Society
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Resourceful Civil Society


Katarzyna Jezierska , Lisa Kings , Zhanna Kravchenko


This open access book examines how civil society organizations in Poland, Russia, and Sweden (re)act to transformations of opportunities and limitations in access to various forms of resources. The volume’s contributions discuss the constraints associated with different...

Parution : 2022-06-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Causal Mechanisms in the Global Development of Social Policies
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Causal Mechanisms in the Global Development of Social Policies


Johanna Kuhlmann , Frank Nullmeier


This open access edited volume introduces the concept of causal mechanisms to explore new ways of explaining the global dynamics of social policy, and shows that a mechanism-based approach provides several advantages over established approaches for studying social...

Parution : 2022-05-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Care Poverty
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Care Poverty


Teppo Kröger


This open access book turns the research attention of social policy scholars and long-term care researchers from comparative descriptions of care systems, focusing mostly on expenditures and volumes of long-term care services, to outcomes, and in particular to the...

Parution : 2022-05-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Care Loops and Mobilities in Nordic, Central, and Eastern European Welfare States
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Care Loops and Mobilities in Nordic, Central, and Eastern European Welfare States


Lise Widding Isaksen , Lena Näre


This edited volume discusses and analyses the impact of neoliberal policies and ideologies on public and private care practices in Nordic, Central, and East European welfare states. Through new conceptualizations of care practices, chapters take the reader directly into...

Parution : 2022-03-03
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Télécharger le livre :  International Impacts on Social Policy
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International Impacts on Social Policy


Delia González De Reufels , Frank Nullmeier , Herbert Obinger


This open access book consists of 39 short essays that exemplify how interactions between inter- and trans-national interdependencies and domestic factors have shaped the dynamics of social policy in various parts of the world at different points in time. Each...

Parution : 2022-02-28
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