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  • Precarious Lives

    Forced Labour, Exploitation and Asylum

    by Hannah Lewis, Peter Dwyer, Stuart Hodkinson, Louise Waite ...
    Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licenceThis ground breaking book presents the first evidence of forced labour among displaced migrants who seek refuge in the UK.Through a critical engagement with contemporary debates about precarity, unfreedom and socio-legal status, the book explores how asylum and forced labour are linked, and enmeshed in a broader picture of modern slavery produced ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • What's Next

    2020 Onwards

    by Peter Dwyer ...
    The title of this short book is What's Next?, and the short answer is Who Knows? This is despite the mounting evidence that our current worldwide problems are leading people to reassess their priorities for the future and insist on the need for change. The purpose of the book is to take this contrast seriously, and not only to accept the task of seeing what is at stake as we enter upon a new ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Impacts of Welfare Conditionality

    Sanctions Support and Behaviour Change

    by Peter Dwyer, Lisa Scullion, Katy Jones, Jenny McNeill, Alasdair B.R. Stewart ...
    Series series Welfare Conditionality
    Should a citizen’s right to social welfare be contingent on their personal behaviour?Welfare conditionality, linking citizens’ eligibility for social benefits and services to prescribed compulsory responsibilities or behaviours, has become a key component of welfare reform in many nations.This book uses qualitative longitudinal data, from repeat interviews with people subject to compulsion and ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Welfare to Work in Contemporary European Welfare States

    Legal, Sociological and Philosophical Perspectives on Justice and Domination

    by Stuart White, Simon Birnbaum, Peter Dwyer, Niklas Andreas Andersen, Sophie Danneris Luthman, Mathias Herup Nielsen, Luca Perrig, Jean-Michel Bonvin, Christian Højer Schøler, Neville Harris, Kurt Pärli, Melanie Studer, Elise Dermine, Amir Paz-Fuchs ...
    With welfare to work programmes under intense scrutiny, this book reviews a wide range of existing and future policies across Europe.Seventeen contributors provide case studies and legal, sociological and philosophical perspectives from around the continent, building a rich picture of welfare to work policies and their impact. They show how many schemes do not adequately address social rights and ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • African Struggles Today

    Social Movements Since Independence

    by Peter Dwyer, Leo Zeilig ...
    Three leading Africa scholars investigate the social forces driving the democratic transformation of postcolonial states across southern Africa. Extensive research and interviews with civil society organizers in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Zambia, Malawi, Namibia, and Swaziland inform this analysis of the challenges faced by non-governmental organizations in relating both to the attendant inequality ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Social Policy in an Era of Competition

    From Global to Local Perspectives

    by Zoë Irving, Kevin Farnsworth, Stefan Kühner, Kate Brown, Peter Dwyer, John Hudson, Chris Holden, Neil Lunt, Stuart Lowe, Theo Papadopoulos0, Antonios Roumpakis1, Naomi Finch2 ...
    Welfare states globally have been subjected to reform agendas that have stressed economic competitiveness but how has global competition reshaped welfare states in practice?Providing a new cross-national and international narrative this book captures the complexity of social policy reform process that have taken place over the past 25 years. Drawing on data relating to multiple countries the ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • Dealing with Welfare Conditionality

    Implementation and Effects

    by Emily Ball, Lisa Scullion, Ion Liviu Iulian Dinu, Katy Jones, Regina Serpa, LARISSA POVEY, Helen Stinson ...
    Series series Welfare Conditionality
    This edited collection considers how conditional welfare policies and services are implemented and experienced by a diverse range of welfare service users across a range of UK policy domains including social security, homelessness, migration and criminal justice.The book showcases the insights and findings of a series of distinct, independent studies undertaken by early career researchers ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • An Introduction to Social Policy

    Edited by Peter Dwyer, Sandra Shaw ...
    An Introduction to Social Policy explores essential welfare topics, themes and issues for students studying social policy or related disciplines such as sociology, social work, or nursing and social care.- Part One examines key concepts including welfare, social justice, diversity and health and well-being.- Part Two explores policy issues in relation to key stages of the lifecourse.- Part Three ... Read more

    $65.69 USD

  • Youth, Education and Risk

    Facing the Future

    by Peter Dwyer, Johanna Wyn ...
    Youth, Education and Risk: Facing the Future provides a provocative and valuable insight into how the dramatic social and economic changes of the last twenty years have affected the lives of Western youth. Covering young people's attitudes towards relationships and health, the authors provide a comprehensive perspective on young people in Western society in the 1990s.The book reviews ten years of ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • An Introduction to Social Policy

    Edited by Peter Dwyer, Sandra Shaw ...
    An Introduction to Social Policy explores essential welfare topics, themes and issues for students studying social policy or related disciplines such as sociology, social work, or nursing and social care.- Part One examines key concepts including welfare, social justice, diversity and health and well-being.- Part Two explores policy issues in relation to key stages of the lifecourse.- Part Three ... Read more

    $65.69 USD

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  • The Welfare State

    A Very Short Introduction

    by David Garland ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Welfare states vary across nations and change over time. And the balance between markets and government; free enterprise and social protection is perennially in question. But all developed societies have welfare states of one kind or another - they are a fundamental dimension of modern government. And even after decades of free-market criticism and reform, their core institutions have proven ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Fourth Turning

    What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny

    by William Strauss, Neil Howe ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Discover the game-changing theory of the cycles of history and what past generations can teach us about living through times of upheaval—with deep insights into the roles that Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials have to play—now with a new preface by Neil Howe.“One of the best efforts to give us an integrated vision of where we are going.”—The Wall Street JournalFirst ... Read more

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