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  • Social Protection and Development

    Growth, Welfare and Equity

    by James Midgley ...
    This insightful book examines the crucial role of social protection in development, with a particular focus on the Global South. Drawing on extensive empirical research and theoretical frameworks, internationally recognized social development scholar, James Midgley counters neoliberal economic arguments that claim social protection schemes negatively impact development. Instead, he demonstrates ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Reframing Global Social Policy

    Social Investment for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth

    by Tim Jackson, Jane Jenson, James Midgley, Robin Webster, Anton Hemerijck, Laia Maynou Pujorlas, Guillem López-Casasnovas, Jon Kvist, Marius R. Busemeyer, Giuliano Bonoli, Gunther Schmid, Stephan Klasen, Huck-ju Kwon, Cook Cook ...
    Christopher Deeming and Paul Smyth together with internationally renowned contributors propose that the merging of the ‘social investment’ and ‘inclusive growth and development’ agendas is forging an unprecedented global social policy framework. The book shows how these key ideas together with the environmental imperative of ‘sustainability’ are shaping a new global development agenda.This ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Social Welfare for a Global Era

    International Perspectives on Policy and Practice

    by James O. Midgley ...
    Written by internationally renowned author and scholar James Midgley, Social Welfare for a Global Era provides a comprehensive framework for examining social welfare from a global perspective. Drawing on a large body of literature and his own extensive knowledge of the field, Dr. Midgley offers students, scholars, and practitioners an up-to-date account of the complex ways social well-being is ... Read more

    $87.29 USD

  • Social Development

    The Developmental Perspective in Social Welfare

    by James O. Midgley ...
    The social development approach seeks to integrate economic and social policies within a dynamic development process in order to achieve social welfare objectives. This first comprehensive textbook on the subject demonstrates that social development offers critically significant insights for the developed as well as the developing world.James Midgley describes the social development approach, ... Read more

    $99.89 USD

  • Social Development

    Theory and Practice

    by James O. Midgley ...
    Walking through social development’s key theoreticalprinciples and practice strategies, this book shows how it promotes peoples’ wellbeing not only in the Global South, where it first emerged, but in the Western countries as well. It covers:Definitions and an historical evolution of social developmentKey theoretical debates around social well-being, human rights and social justiceSocial ... Read more

    $65.69 USD

  • Social Policy for Development

    by Anthony Hall, James O. Midgley ...
    ′Strong social policy is essential for sustainable growth. This book is an extremely useful overview of social policy issue for policy makers and anyone who wants to understand the true roots of successful sustainable development′ -Ian Johnson, Vice President for Sustainable Development, The World Bank′Throughout the world issues of social development have now taken centre stage. There is no more ... Read more

    $94.49 USD

  • Social Development

    Theory and Practice

    by James O. Midgley ...
    Walking through social development’s key theoreticalprinciples and practice strategies, this book shows how it promotes peoples’ wellbeing not only in the Global South, where it first emerged, but in the Western countries as well. It covers:Definitions and an historical evolution of social developmentKey theoretical debates around social well-being, human rights and social justiceSocial ... Read more

    $65.69 USD

  • Shakespeare’s Auditory Worlds

    Hearing and Staging Practices, Then and Now

    by Laury Magnus, Elizabeth Brown, Benjamin Curns, Clio Doyle, Leslie Dunn, Sarah Fallon, Gayle Gaskill, Allison Glenzer, John Harrell, James Keegan0, Patrick Midgley1, Steven Urkowitz2, Walter W. Cannon4, Ralph Alan Cohen5, R. W. Jones6, Caroline D. Latta7, Jennifer Linhart Wood8, David Bevington9 ...
    Series series
    Inspired by the verbal exuberance and richness of all that can be heard by audiences both on and off Shakespeare’s stages, Shakespeare’s Auditory Worlds examines such special listening situations as overhearing, eavesdropping, and asides. It breaks new ground by exploring the complex relationships between sound and sight, dialogue and blocking, dialects and other languages, re-voicings, and, ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • Social Work and Social Development

    Theories and Skills for Developmental Social Work

    Edited by James Midgley, Amy Conley ...
    Social workers have been involved in social development for many years, but it is only recently that these ideas have been explicitly applied to social work practice. The result is that a new and distinctive approach to social work practice known as developmental social work has emerged. Developmental social work emphasizes the role of social investment in professional practice. These investments ... Read more

    $75.59 USD

  • Social Policy and Change in East Asia

    by James Lee, Yapeng Zhu, Kam-wah Chan, Kim-wah Chung, Keqing Han, Patricia Kennett, Kai Liu, Lucille Lok-sun Ngan, Raymond Man-hung Ngan0, Heidi Reed1, Qiaobing Wu2 ...
    Social Policy and Change in East Asia is a collection of essays from a group of indigenous East Asian social policy researchers who met bi-annually to discuss social development issues. The book’s focus is the policy responses of respective East Asian government since the 2008 financial tsunami struck the region. Together, the essays in Social Policy and Change in East Asia argue that traditional ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Grassroots Social Security in Asia

    Mutual Aid, Microinsurance and Social Welfare

    Edited by James Midgley, Mitsuhiko Hosaka ...
    Series series Routledge Research On Public and Social Policy in Asia
    Grassroots Social Security in Asia investigates the role of mutual associations in providing income protection to low-income people in Asia and in particular the region's developing countries. Historically, these associations have consisted of small groups of people with common interests who save regularly to support, maintain and supplement their incomes. Members make regular contributions to a ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Handbook of Social Policy

    Edited by James O. Midgley, Michelle M. Livermore ...
    Social policy is a continuously evolving field requiring constant review, documentation, and analysis. The Handbook of Social Policy is an attempt to document the now substantial body of knowledge about government social policies that has been accumulated since the study of social policy first emerged as an organized field of academic endeavor about 50 years ago. The Second Edition offers a more ... Read more

    $141.29 USD