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“robert castel”

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  • From Manual Workers to Wage Laborers

    Transformation of the Social Question

    Edited by Robert Castel ...
    In this monumental book, sociologist Robert Castel reconstructs the history of what he calls "the social question," or the ways in which both labor and social welfare have been organized from the Middle Ages onward to contemporary industrial society. Throughout, the author identifies two constants bearing directly on the question of who is entitled to relief and who can be excluded: the degree of ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • American Dream

    Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation's Drive to End Welfare

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    Culture, Markets and the Failure of Third-Way Socialism

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    Series series Readings in Political Economy
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  • Reforms at Risk

    What Happens After Major Policy Changes Are Enacted

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  • From Victims to Suspects

    Muslim Women since 9/11

    by Shakira Hussein ...
    A crucial exploration of the lives of Muslim women in the post-9/11 world.Once regarded as helpless victims waiting to be rescued, Muslim women are now widely viewed as a potential threat. Shakira Hussein explores this shift in attitudes and its impact on Muslim women's lives.From volatile Afghan refugee camps to Australian suburbia, Hussein examines the challenges Muslim women face in negotiating ... Read more

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  • The Right To Be Loved

    by S. Matthew Liao ...
    S. Matthew Liao argues here that children have a right to be loved. To do so he investigates questions such as whether children are rightholders; what grounds a child's right to beloved; whether love is an appropriate object of a right; and other philosophical and practical issues. His proposal is that all human beings have rights to the fundamental conditions for pursuing a good life; therefore, ... Read more

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  • Committed

    The Battle over Involuntary Psychiatric Care

    by Dinah Miller, Annette Hanson ...
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  • Proactive Child Protection and Social Work

    by Nora Duckett, Liz Davies ...
    Series series Transforming Social Work Practice Series
    Protecting children from abuse and neglect is a serious and complex area of social work practice and understanding the critical skills of communicating with and listening to children′s voices, and those of their advocates and survivors, is essential. In this new edition of a highly-regarded book, the authors offer a strengthened children′s rights perspective and explore four main categories of ... Read more

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  • Telling Tales About Dementia

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    Paper German is about the everyday life of migrants and their children, the third and fourth generations living in Germany and Central Europe. It addresses not only the physical challenges but also the psychological challenges that foreigners face, in terms of equality, employment, education, and opportunities in life. Its author reveals what he has learned about the inner workings of a society ... Read more

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