Social Justice

Exploring the effects of the past decade's neoliberalism and globalization on world-wide social work, this book also grapples with the implications for social work practice of the global social justice/anti-corporate and anti-capitalist movement...

Human trafficking is a serious human rights violation that leads to the gross exploitation of its victims. This book discusses the systematic exploitation of victims and the subsequent violation of human rights within an international context, providing an overview of the causes, regulation and prev..

Integrating theory, ideology and practice, this work offers a cross-national approach to give a perspective on different welfare systems...

This book explains the changes that have occurred in welfare states since the early 1970s and considers some of the policy dilemmas that have arisen. Each of the chapters begins with an introduction to set the scene, followed by an examination of the theoretical and conceptual perspectives of the se..

Considers a range of approaches to social policy provision and applies these to developments in the British welfare state. The author works from the basis that the theory and practice of social policy would benefit from a broader understanding of social, political and economic contexts...

First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Rapid urbanization in developing countries brings numerous problems and challenges; urban poverty is one important issue. This important volume presents the findings of a revealing multidisciplinary cohort study conducted in the slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh. It forms the basis for understanding grou..

Rapid urbanization in developing countries brings numerous problems and challenges; urban poverty is one important issue. This important volume presents the findings of a revealing multidisciplinary cohort study conducted in the slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh. It forms the basis for understanding grou..

This innovative volume is designed to develop understanding about the role and contribution of social protection globally and to share innovative practice and policies from around the world...

This book explores developments in training and in social welfare to show that third way administrations in England and New Zealand are reconnecting young people to the labour market through creating social networks...

Tracing key ideas in feminist social work from the 1970s through to the present day, and using data from interviews with female social workers, this book examines and explores the current state of feminist social work...

Unemployed Youth and Social Exclusion in Europe will make an important contribution to reflecting critically on current policy and practice, as well as to academic understandings of unemployed youth, and restrictive and reflexive approaches to learning for inclusion across Europe...