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Automatic Poverty by Bill Jordan
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £34.59Originally published in 1981, Automatic Poverty provides a much-needed alternative to the Radical Right's analysis. The book argues that Britain's economic decline is symptomatic of an advanced stage... -
Helping in Social Work by Bill Jordan
Booksplease Price: £108.12First published in 1979, Helping in Social Work elaborates on the personal processes of influence in social work between clients and social workers. Shifting focus from the organizational structure... -
Freedom and the Welfare State by Bill Jordan
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £34.59Originally published in 1976, Freedom and the Welfare State, critiques the Welfare State in Britain and analyses the relationship between freedom and welfare. The book considers philosophical,... -
Embrace the Boom by Bill Jordan 9780981687247
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981687247Author Bill JordanFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint -
Authoritarianism and How to Counter It by Bill Jordan 9783030172107
Booksplease Price: £50.86After the collapse of the Soviet Union, it was assumed that liberal democracies would flourish worldwide. Instead, today authoritarian leaders are gaining power - from Trump's US and Bolsonaro's... -
Helping in Social Work by Bill Jordan 9781032220925
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £32.89First published in 1979, Helping in Social Work elaborates on the personal processes of influence in social work between clients and social workers. Shifting focus from the organizational structure... -
Automation and Human Solidarity by Bill Jordan 9783030369583
Booksplease Price: £50.86This book provides a detailed analysis of the economic and political implications of the introduction of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics into the service sector of economies that have so far... -
Paupers: The Making of the New Claiming Class by Bill Jordan
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £34.59Originally published in 1973, Paupers looks at poverty through the lens of class and the Welfare State. The book examines those living in poverty, and the direct effects poverty has. The book follows... -
Social Value in Public Policy by Bill Jordan 9783030604233
Booksplease Price: £55.35This book considers the role of social value in the making and implementation of public policy, taking into account how concepts such as subjective well-being (SWB) can be used to measure the... -
Social Value in Public Policy by Bill Jordan 9783030604202
Booksplease Price: £55.35This book considers the role of social value in the making and implementation of public policy, taking into account how concepts such as subjective well-being (SWB) can be used to measure the... -
Migration: The Boundaries of Equality and Justice by Bill Jordan 9780745630076
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05The freedom to choose where to live and work is a fundamental right in liberal societies. The moral equality of persons is the basic principle of democratic politics. But liberal democracy has no... -
Migration: The Boundaries of Equality and Justice by Bill Jordan 9780745630083
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.19The freedom to choose where to live and work is a fundamental right in liberal societies. The moral equality of persons is the basic principle of democratic politics. But liberal democracy has no... -
Irregular Migration: The Dilemmas of Transnational Mobility Bill Jordan 9781843766513
RRP: £50.95Booksplease Price: £47.34Irregular Migration is an extremely timely and topical book, analysing the fundamental tensions at the core of present attempts to manage the movement of population in today's world. Recent events... -
The Age of Disintegration: The Politics and Economics of Division by Bill Jordan 9783030414443
Booksplease Price: £46.88This book addresses the disintegration of collective units of all kinds, under the twin pressures of economic globalisation and technological automation. At the level of super-states, the constituent... -
Sex, Money and Power: The Transformation of Collective Life by Bill Jordan
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.26Intimacy, choice, movement - these are the elements which make up the desirable lifestyle in the mainstream of affluent societies. They also undermine traditional forms of power and control. And they... -
Immigration, Social Cohesion and Political Reaction by Bill Jordan 9783030527075
Booksplease Price: £56.12This book addresses the challenge for social integration posed by immigration into Western liberal democracies. Movement of people, goods and money across borders has increased in recent decades –... -
A Theory of Poverty and Social Exclusion Bill Jordan (University of Plymouth) 9780745616940
Booksplease Price: £20.70Bill Jordan seeks to fill a gap in social scientific theory by accounting for why a deterioration in the living standards of the worst-off members of societies tends to coincide with the resurgence... -
Poor Parents: Social Policy and the 'Cycle of Deprivation' by Bill Jordan 9781041069850
RRP: £73.99Booksplease Price: £73.69Originally published in 1974, this book provides a critique of official policy towards families with young children living on low incomes and looks in detail at some of the myths prevalent in the... -
What's Wrong with Social Policy and How to Fix It by Bill Jordan 9780745647401
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £44.80This book argues that the financial crash of 2008-9 has exposed the disastrous consequences of applying economic theory to the collective life of societies. In seeking to manage social relationships... -
Sex, Money and Power: The Transformation of Collective Life by Bill Jordan 9780745633503
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05Intimacy, choice, movement - these are the elements which make up the desirable lifestyle in the mainstream of affluent societies. They also undermine traditional forms of power and control. And they... -
Social Work and Social Policy under Austerity by Bill Jordan 9781137020635
Booksplease Price: £39.39What has the contemporary financial context meant for social policy, social work and the relationship between them? Examining the role of political, economic and societal forces, this lively book... -
Putting the Family First: Identities, decisions, citizenship by Bill Jordan 9781032221274
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £32.89First published in 1994, Putting the Family First is a study of better-off couples that clarifies the relationship between individualism and family values. Partners’ cultural practices focus on... -
Who Cares for Planet Earth?: The CON in Conservation by Bill Jordan 9781898595359
Booksplease Price: £114.18The public, if consulted at all, are being asked to make decisions on incomplete and often untruthful information. Society is being conned into believing that all is well with planet Earth, that all... -
The Future of Social Work: What Next for Social Policy? by Bill Jordan 9783030763701
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £56.12This book is an up-to-date analysis of the issues facing the future of the social work profession in the face of rising political authoritarianism, economic inequality and insecurity, class and... -
Welfare and well-being: Social value in public policy by Bill Jordan 9781847420817
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £69.79Research on well-being reveals the significance of personal relationships, trust and participation to sustain quality of life, yet it is the economic model that remains the dominant basis for... -
Collective Action: Tribes, Empires, Nations, and Protest Movements by Bill Jordan 9781032308876
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This book examines how different levels and forms of human collectivity have interacted, voluntarily or coercively, and how these transformed societies and polities.Every size and type of human... -
What's Wrong with Social Policy and How to Fix It Bill Jordan (University of Plymouth) 9780745647418
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.34This book argues that the financial crash of 2008-9 has exposed the disastrous consequences of applying economic theory to the collective life of societies. In seeking to manage social relationships... -
Social Policy for the Twenty-First Century: New Perspectives, Big Issues by Bill Jordan 9780745636085
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.74In the new century, governments face three challenges for their social policies. Their efforts to improve their citizens' well-being must be consistent with the development of the world economy, and... -
Social Policy for the Twenty-First Century: New Perspectives, Big Issues by Bill Jordan 9780745636078
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £53.60In the new century, governments face three challenges for their social policies. Their efforts to improve their citizens' well-being must be consistent with the development of the world economy, and... -
Why the Third Way failed: Economics, morality and the origins of the 'Big Society' by Bill Jordan 9781847426574
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £69.79In the wake of the economic crash, public policy is in search of a new moral compass. This book explains why the Third Way's combination of market-friendly and abstract, value-led principles has... -
Welfare and well-being: Social value in public policy Bill Jordan (Department of Social Work, University of Plymouth) 9781847420800
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £25.54Research on well-being reveals the significance of personal relationships, trust and participation to sustain quality of life, yet it is the economic model that remains the dominant basis for... -
Why the Third Way failed: Economics, morality and the origins of the 'Big Society' Bill Jordan (Department of Social Work, University of Plymouth) 9781847426567
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.98In the wake of the economic crash, public policy is in search of a new moral compass. This book explains why the Third Way's combination of market-friendly and abstract, value-led principles has... -
Prospects for Recovery in the British Economy by F. V. Meyer 9780367654184
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £32.89First published in 1985, Prospects for Recovery in the British Economy examines the origins of the economic downturn of the early 1980s. The book explores the causes of the decrease in industrial... -
Post-Industrial Socialism: Towards a New Politics of Welfare by Adrian Little
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89Post-Industrial Socialism provides critical analysis of recent developments in leftist political thought. Adrian Little charts new directions in the economy and the effects they have had on... -
Beyond Marginality?: Social Movements of Social Security Claimants in the European Union by Rik van Berkel 9781138610330
RRP: £75.99Booksplease Price: £73.99First published in 1998, this volume describes and analyses organizations of social security claimants and their position in the field of force of the national welfare state in six European... -
Beyond Marginality?: Social Movements of Social Security Claimants in the European Union by Rik van Berkel 9781138610378
Booksplease Price: £26.09First published in 1998, this volume describes and analyses organizations of social security claimants and their position in the field of force of the national welfare state in six European... -
![Religion and Ecological Crisis: The "Lynn White Thesis" at Fifty by Todd LeVasseur](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/761299/761011/9781138386112__99892.1687596682.jpg?c=1 "Religion and Ecological Crisis: The "Lynn White Thesis" at Fifty by Todd LeVasseur")
Religion and Ecological Crisis: The "Lynn White Thesis" at Fifty by Todd LeVasseur
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49In 1967, Lynn White, Jr.'s seminal article The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis was published, essentially establishing the academic study of religion and nature. White argues that... -
Freedom and Security: An Introduction to the Basic Income Debate by Jo Campling 9780333721940
Booksplease Price: £90.56A basic income would be an income paid periodically and unconditionally to every man, woman and child as a fundamental right of citizenship and without reference to employment, marital and household... -
Collision Course: Economic Change, Criminal Justice Reform, and Work in America by Kathleen Auerhahn 9781978817968
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89This book is about the convergence of trends in two American institutions - the economy and the criminal justice system. The American economy has radically transformed in the past half-century, led... -
Making European Citizens: Civic Inclusion in a Transnational Context by Professor Richard Bellamy 9780333973776
Booksplease Price: £46.28Making European Citizens examines the forms of transnational citizenship developing in Europe. Active citizenship involves more than simply voting. Achieving mobilization at a transnational level may...