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Researching Poverty by Jonathan Bradshaw
RRP: $47.72Booksplease Price: $43.98This title was first published in 2000: This collection of papers reviews the theory, method and policy relevance of post-war poverty research. It is designed to contribute to bringing high quality... -
Experiencing Poverty by Jonathan Bradshaw 9781138717473
RRP: $161.25Booksplease Price: $144.03Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Absent Fathers? Jonathan Bradshaw 9780415215930
RRP: $67.07Booksplease Price: $60.55Much has been written and debated on lone mothers. However little has been discussed about non-resident fathers. Absent Fathers is part of a growing literature on men and masculinities and takes this... -
Experiencing Poverty by Jonathan Bradshaw 9781138717411
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $31.81This title was first published in 2000: Marking the centenary of Seebohm Rowntree's first study of poverty in York, this volume examines the modern impact of poverty on health, nutrition, crime,... -
Energy and Social Policy by Jonathan Bradshaw
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $49.50Energy price rises have been amongst the biggest change that has taken place in our society over the last few decades. Their impact, particularly when this book was first published in 1983, had a... -
Children and Social Security by Jonathan Bradshaw 9781138722248
RRP: $43.85Booksplease Price: $40.66This title was first published in 2003. There is growing anxiety about the consequences of social and economic change for children in industrial countries. It is in this context that the Federation... -
The Family Fund: An Initiative in Social Policy by Jonathan Bradshaw
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $49.50In The Family Fund, first published in 1980, Bradshaw discusses the introduction of The Family Fund- a grant given to families in response of the discovery of the damages caused by the Thalidomide... -
The Well-Being of Children in the UK by Jonathan Bradshaw 9781447325628
RRP: $116.10Booksplease Price: $95.25Now in its fourth edition, this is the classic assessment of the state of child well-being in the United Kingdom. This edition has been updated to review the latest evidence, examining the outcomes... -
Social Policy, Employment and Family Change in Comparative Perspective by Jonathan Bradshaw 9781848444164
RRP: $56.70Booksplease Price: $53.11This book is a comparative study of family change, parental employment and social policy in the five Nordic countries, the Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom. In all these countries family... -
The Well-Being of Children in the UK Jonathan Bradshaw (Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of York) 9781447325635
RRP: $39.98Booksplease Price: $37.20Now in its fourth edition, this is the classic assessment of the state of child well-being in the United Kingdom. This edition has been updated to review the latest evidence, examining the outcomes... -
Comparative Social Assistance: Localisation and Discretion by John Ditch 9781138616417
RRP: $77.39Booksplease Price: $69.40Published in 1997, the is the report of a study commissioned by the Department of Social Security (UK). The aim of the study was to provide detailed information about the social assistance systems of... -
Comparative Social Assistance: Localisation and Discretion by John Ditch
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $31.81Published in 1997, the is the report of a study commissioned by the Department of Social Security (UK). The aim of the study was to provide detailed information about the social assistance systems of... -
Welfare to Work in Practice: Social Security and Participation in Economic and Social Life by Peter Saunders 9781138266735
RRP: $61.91Booksplease Price: $56.13Welfare to Work in Practice brings together some of the leading international social security experts to discuss the rationale for welfare to work policies, their limitations and problems encountered... -
Issues in Social Policy Kathleen Jones 9781032538549
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $36.24First published in 1978, Issues in Social Policy is designed as a basic textbook for social administration students in universities, polytechnics and similar institutions, and for students in allied... -
Child Poverty: Aspiring to Survive by Morag C. Treanor 9781447334682
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $29.79Child poverty is rising across affluent Western societies; how it is measured is vital to how governments act to prevent, alleviate or eliminate it. While the roots of childhood poverty are fiercely... -
Down and out: Poverty and exclusion in Australia by Peter Saunders 9781847428387
RRP: $41.27Booksplease Price: $37.78This landmark study provides the first comprehensive assessment of the nature and associations between the three main forms of social disadvantage in Australia: poverty, deprivation and social... -
Down and out: Poverty and exclusion in Australia by Peter Saunders 9781847428394
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $90.43This landmark study provides the first comprehensive assessment of the nature and associations between the three main forms of social disadvantage in Australia: poverty, deprivation and social... -
Child Poverty: Aspiring to Survive by Morag C. Treanor 9781447334668
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $90.03Child poverty is rising across affluent Western societies; how it is measured is vital to how governments act to prevent, alleviate or eliminate it. While the roots of childhood poverty are fiercely... -
What's Wrong with Social Security Benefits? Paul Spicker (Robert Gordon University) 9781447337324
Booksplease Price: $15.79In this thought-provoking book, Paul Spicker challenges readers to rethink social security benefits in Britain. Putting a case for reform of the system, Spicker argues that most of the criticisms... -
How social security works: An introduction to benefits in Britain by Paul Spicker 9781847428103
RRP: $37.40Booksplease Price: $33.90How social security works is an introduction to the much-misunderstood system of benefits in Britain. The book is an accessible, broadly based and sometimes controversial text which can help readers... -
Well-being: In search of a good life? by Beverley A. Searle 9781861348876
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $90.04We are often told that 'money can't buy happiness'. But if money is not the answer then what is? This book considers this question by examining empirical data stretching back almost 10 years. Whereas... -
Exploring Concepts of Child Well-Being: Implications for Children's Services by Nick Axford 9781447305859
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $34.88Policy reforms to children's services in the UK and elsewhere encourage a greater focus on outcomes defined in terms of child well-being. Yet for this to happen, we need not only a better... -
Families and Poverty: Everyday life on a low income by 9781447318828
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $90.03The recent radical cutbacks of the welfare state in the UK have meant that poverty and income management continue to be of great importance for intellectual, public and policy discourse. Written by... -
Families and Poverty: Everyday Life on a Low Income by Mary Daly 9781447318835
RRP: $37.40Booksplease Price: $33.90The recent radical cutbacks of the welfare state in the UK have meant that poverty and income management continue to be of great importance for intellectual, public and policy discourse. Written by... -
The Peter Townsend reader Alan Walker (Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield) 9781847424044
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $35.91Peter Townsend, who sadly passed away in June 2009, had a long career researching an exceptional range of topics within the social sciences and campaigning against social inequalities. This reader... -
Transformations of the Swedish Welfare State: From Social Engineering to Governance? by B. Larsson 9781349332854
Booksplease Price: $116.82Using an analytical framework based on Foucault's concept of governmentality and through unique case-studies, this volume explores the ongoing transformations taking place in the Swedish welfare... -
Minimum Income Protection in Flux by I. Marx 9780230348134
RRP: $128.99Booksplease Price: $128.74The current economic crisis has presented itself as a formidable challenge to the welfare states of Europe. It is more relevant than ever to ask: do existing minimum income protection schemes succeed... -
Transformations of the Swedish Welfare State: From Social Engineering to Governance? by Bengt Larsson 9780230293410
Booksplease Price: $116.82Using an analytical framework based on Foucault's concept of governmentality and through unique case-studies, this volume explores the ongoing transformations taking place in the Swedish welfare...