This workbook and the accompanying MicroCase databases function as an interactive tool that provides students with a platform for exploring current social welfare issues. The text, the first MicroCase book written for social workers by a social work researcher, addresses the social issues which practitioners, researchers, and clients find important. To complete the exercises in the book, students use the databases on the accompanying CD-ROM, which contain the same current data used by social scientists all over the world to do their research. These five data files allow students to compare states, countries, public attitudes, and the effect of time on some of the most important social welfare issues of our day.

James Midgley provides a broad overview of social welfare, outlining key institutions, terminology, historical research, and approaches. He also details reasons for the existence of international social welfare and the challenges that arise from it. The author includes an important section on applied international social welfare that addresses the concerns of practitioners--concerns that have been neglected in much of the literature in the field. An entire section of the book is devoted to issues of social work practice, social developments, the activities of international agencies, and their collaborative efforts. While practical application is an important focus of the book, several chapters deal with key theoretical debates in the field. The author also includes descriptive chapters that provide comprehensive accounts of world social conditions and social welfare institutions.

This volume is the first of its kind to discuss social welfare issues using case studies from a broad range of Southern European countries, both large and small, a decade after the financial crisis. It identifies similarities and differences in the ways in which Southern European countries engage with specific welfare issues and examines whether Southern European welfare is distinct from that of the rest of the continent. The book also engages with the impact of COVID-19 on the social welfare issues under investigation. The volume is divided into four sections, each examining in detail issues including employment, education, health, sexuality, globalization, social movements and migration. With its contributions from experts in the field, the volume is recommended for academics, researchers and students of sociology, social policy, economics, education, politics and social movements.

James Midgley provides a broad overview of social welfare, outlining key institutions, terminology, historical research, and approaches. He also details reasons for the existence of international social welfare and the challenges that arise from it. The author includes an important section on applied international social welfare that addresses the concerns of practitionersùconcerns that have been neglected in much of the literature in the field. An entire section of the book is devoted to issues of social work practice, social development, the activities of international agencies, and their collaborative efforts. While practical application is an important focus of the book, several chapters deal with key theoretical debates in the field. The author also includes descriptive chapters that provide comprehensive accounts of world social conditions and social welfare institutions. As a textbook on international social welfare, Social Welfare in Global Context is primarily intended for students and practitioners of social work, social administration, and social policy. But it is also relevant for students of sociology, public policy, and economics.

Building on the successes of Understanding Global Social Policy (Yeates ed. 2008) and its companion text, the Global Social Policy Reader (Yeates and Holden ed. 2009), the second edition of this leading textbook in social policy identifies and reviews the key issues, debates and priorities for action in global social policy as a field of academic study and research and as a field of political practice and action. All first edition chapters have been systematically revised and updated to reflect major developments in the fast-paced area of global social policy making over the past five years, and include new material on the Millennium Development Goals, the Social Protection Floor and the ‘greening’ of global social policy. This much-needed second edition includes new chapters on global poverty and inequality, social protection, criminal justice and education. Written by an international team of leading social policy analysts , Understanding Global Social Policy is the leading textbook in the field and provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of international actors and social policy formation in global context. It is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers, policy makers and practitioners seeking to identify key issues in contemporary social policy and locate them within a global framework of analysis and action.

Global social work: crossing borders, blurring boundaries is a collection of ideas, debates and reflections on key issues concerning social work as a global profession, such as its theory, its curricula, its practice, its professional identity; its concern with human rights and social activism, and its future directions. Apart from emphasising the complexities of working and talking about social work across borders and cultures, the volume focuses on the curricula of social work programs from as many regions as possible to showcase what is being taught in various cultural, sociopolitical and regional contexts. Exploring the similarities and differences in social work education across many countries of the Americas, Asia, Europe and the Pacific, the book provides a reference point for moving the current social work discourse towards understanding the local and global context in its broader significance.

The third edition of this leading textbook offers a contemporary, lively and accessible overview of international actors and social policy formation, identifying key issues, debates and priorities for action in social policy across the Global South and North.

Social Welfare Policy in a Changing World is an approachable and student-friendly text that links policy and practice and employs a critical analytic lens to U.S. social welfare policy. With particular attention to disparities based on class, race/ethnicity, ability, sexual orientation and gender, authors Shannon R. Lane, Elizabeth Palley, and Corey Shdaimah assess the impact of policies at the micro, meso, and macro levels.

The Development Delusion In A Globalized Culture Is A Fascinating Subject For Informed Debate And Discussion. Fallacies Of Development Critiques The Contemporary Interventionist Approach To Social Development. It Offers A Hermeneutical System Of Linkages That Seeks To Connect Certain Dots Out Of The Box.The Kitsch Of Developmentalism Lacks Legitimacy, Coherence And Relevance In A Flattening Complex World. From Nation-Building To Globalization, Dualities Of Triumphs And Tribulations Mark A Neoglobal Order That Breeds De Developmentality Of Chaos. If September 11 Ominously Heralded The End Of A Civil Society, The Hegemonic Iraq Quagmire Represents A Perfect Storm.The Present Book Signifies The Symbiosis Of Human And Social Development As A Mega Project Of Global-Social Transformation. It Attempts To Offer A Better Understanding Of The Dialectics Of Oppression, Exclusion, And Other Socio-Political Conundrums That Incubate Global Unfreedom And Dehumanization. In Nine Symbiotic Chapters Organized Around Three Central Themes, The Book Examines The Paradoxy Of Development, Unravels Archeology Of The Axis Of Evil And Presents A Design Of New Social Development An Argument For The Conviviality Of A Post-Ideological Coexistence As A Synthesis Of Human-Social Development Toward Global Renaissance.The Book Calls For Enlightenment Ii, A New Epoch In The Evolution Of Human History Promoting Counter-Hegemonic Analyses, Policies And Programs. In A Hopelessly Divided World, The Re Emergence Of Barriers And Walls, Ubiquity Of Terror And Counter-Terror, And Pervasive Malaise Of Arrogance Will Not Deliver A World Without The Scourges Of Poverty, Intolerance And War. It S Not The Culture Of Poverty, It S The Poverty Of Culture That Continues To Bedevil Humanity. The Flickers Of New Social Development Offer A Way Out Of The Paralysis Of Hope That Thwarts Human And Social Progress. This Book Is A Compelling Reading For All Scientists, Intellectuals, Professionals, Policy Makers And Students Who Cherish A Dream Of The Future Worth Living.

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 enhanced in the global era, including the major welfare institutions that provide a cultural context for social welfare policy and practice.