When Welfare Disappears

Author : Kenneth J. Neubeck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135403119

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When Welfare Disappears by Kenneth J. Neubeck Pdf

This groundbreaking new book offers a history of welfare, an accurate portrayal of welfare recipients and an understanding of the diverse characteristics of lone-mother-headed families affected by welfare reform. Through detailed research, award-winning author Kenneth J. Neubeck offers a unique comparison of other industrialized nation's welfare policies compared to ours, and presents a new argument for curtailing the end of welfare as we know it: the case for respecting economic human rights.

Author : Alice Kessler-Harris,Maurizio Vaudagna
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231542654

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Democracy and the Welfare State by Alice Kessler-Harris,Maurizio Vaudagna Pdf

After World War II, states on both sides of the Atlantic enacted comprehensive social benefits to protect working people and constrain capitalism. A widely shared consensus specifically linked social welfare to democratic citizenship, upholding greater equality as the glue that held nations together. Though the "two Wests," Europe and the United States, differ in crucial respects, they share a common history of social rights, democratic participation, and welfare capitalism. But in a new age of global inequality, welfare-state retrenchment, and economic austerity, can capitalism and democracy still coexist? In this book, leading historians and social scientists rethink the history of social democracy and the welfare state in the United States and Europe in light of the global transformations of the economic order. Separately and together, they ask how changes in the distribution of wealth reshape the meaning of citizenship in a post-welfare-state era. They explore how the harsh effects of austerity and inequality influence democratic participation. In individual essays as well as interviews with Ira Katznelson and Frances Fox Piven, contributors from both sides of the Atlantic explore the fortunes of the welfare state. They discuss distinct national and international settings, speaking to both local particularities and transnational and transatlantic exchanges. Covering a range of topics—the lives of migrant workers, gender and the family in the design of welfare policies, the fate of the European Union, and the prospects of social movements—Democracy and the Welfare State is essential reading on what remains of twentieth-century social democracy amid the onslaught of neoliberalism and right-wing populism and where this legacy may yet lead us.

Author : Elizabeth Segal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2006-05-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781136748936

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The Promise of Welfare Reform by Elizabeth Segal Pdf

Find out how—and why—legislation has made economic rights more important than human rights Since 1996, politicians and public officials in the United States have celebrated the “success” of welfare reform legislation despite little, if any, evidence to support their claims. The Promise of Welfare Reform: Political

Author : William Julius Wilson
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307794697

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When Work Disappears by William Julius Wilson Pdf

Wilson, one of our foremost authorities on race and poverty, challenges decades of liberal and conservative pieties to look squarely at the devastating effects that joblessness has had on our urban ghettos. Marshaling a vast array of data and the personal stories of hundreds of men and women, Wilson persuasively argues that problems endemic to America's inner cities--from fatherless households to drugs and violent crime--stem directly from the disappearance of blue-collar jobs in the wake of a globalized economy. Wilson's achievement is to portray this crisis as one that affects all Americans, and to propose solutions whose benefits would be felt across our society. At a time when welfare is ending and our country's racial dialectic is more strained than ever, When Work Disappears is a sane, courageous, and desperately important work. "Wilson is the keenest liberal analyst of the most perplexing of all American problems...[This book is] more ambitious and more accessible than anything he has done before." --The New Yorker

Author : Gary W. Peterson,Kevin R. Bush
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 903 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781461439875

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Handbook of Marriage and the Family by Gary W. Peterson,Kevin R. Bush Pdf

The third edition of Handbook of Marriage and the Family describes, analyzes, synthesizes, and critiques the current research and theory about family relationships, family structural variations, and the role of families in society. This updated Handbook provides the most comprehensive state-of-the art assessment of the existing knowledge of family life, with particular attention to variations due to gender, socioeconomic, race, ethnic, cultural, and life-style diversity. The Handbook also aims to provide the best synthesis of our existing scholarship on families that will be a primary source for scholars and professionals but also serve as the primary graduate text for graduate courses on family relationships and the roles of families in society. In addition, the involvement of chapter authors from a variety of fields including family psychology, family sociology, child development, family studies, public health, and family therapy, gives the Handbook a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary framework.

Author : Kazuyo Tsuchiya
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452940854

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Reinventing Citizenship by Kazuyo Tsuchiya Pdf

In the 1960s and 1970s, the United States and Japan went through massive welfare expansions that sparked debates about citizenship. At the heart of these disputes stood African Americans and Koreans. Reinventing Citizenship offers a comparative study of African American welfare activism in Los Angeles and Koreans’ campaigns for welfare rights in Kawasaki. In working-class and poor neighborhoods in both locations, African Americans and Koreans sought not only to be recognized as citizens but also to become legitimate constituting members of communities. Local activists in Los Angeles and Kawasaki ardently challenged the welfare institutions. By creating opposition movements and voicing alternative visions of citizenship, African American leaders, Tsuchiya argues, turned Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty into a battle for equality. Koreans countered the city’s and the nation’s exclusionary policies and asserted their welfare rights. Tsuchiya’s work exemplifies transnational antiracist networking, showing how black religious leaders traveled to Japan to meet Christian Korean activists and to provide counsel for their own struggles. Reinventing Citizenship reveals how race and citizenship transform as they cross countries and continents. By documenting the interconnected histories of African Americans and Koreans in Japan, Tsuchiya enables us to rethink present ideas of community and belonging.

Author : Michael Tanner
Publisher : Cato Institute
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1930865414

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The Poverty of Welfare by Michael Tanner Pdf

The 1996 Welfare Reform Act was the most significant changes in social welfare policy in nearly 30 years. The Poverty of Welfare examines the impact of that reform, looking at the context of welfare's history, and concludes that while welfare reform was a step in the right direction, we have a long way to go to fix the deeply troubled system.

Author : Antoaneta Yotova
Publisher : EOLSS Publications
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-25
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : 9781905839049

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Climate Change, Human Systems, and Policy - Volume III by Antoaneta Yotova Pdf

Climate Change, Human Systems and Policy is a component of Encyclopedia of Natural Resources Policy and Management in the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty one Encyclopedias. The Theme on Climate Change, Human Systems and Policy presented in three volumes, deals with the interaction between climate and human systems for policy development. These volumes discuss History, Status, and Prediction of Global Climate Change; Potential Large-scale Effects of Global Warming; Public Perceptions Toward Global Climate Change; Effects of Potential Sea-Level Rises; Economics of Potential Climate Change; Response Strategies for Stabilization of Atmospheric Composition; Policy Framework and Systems Management of Global Climate Change. These three volumes are aimed at the following five major target audiences: University and College students Educators, Professional practitioners, Research personnel and Policy analysts, managers, and decision makers and NGOs.

Author : OFFICE OF THE UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789210012799

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Reporting Under the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance by OFFICE OF THE UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR. Pdf

This Training Guide seeks to assist States parties in meeting their obligations to respect, protect and fulfil the rights enshrined in the Convention for the Protection of all Persons against Enforced Disappearances. The Manual, which is the first part of the Training Guide, outlines the provisions of the Convention and provides useful guidance on the content and scope of the rules of procedure and the working methods of the Committee on Enforced Disappearances, as well as reporting obligations under the Convention. The publication draws on the wealth of experience acquired by the Committee over the years. It highlights practical examples on the submission of information and data under the Convention and the successful implementation of Committee's recommendations. These examples would be of use to States parties and, in particular, to those involved in the delivery of training courses on reporting to the Committee and on the implementation of the Convention. By promoting a greater understanding of the provisions of the Convention, the Training Guide aims to provide guidance and support to reporting States as to the content of reports and the implementation of recommendations. The Manual will be complemented by training materials (Part II), tailored to each of the Convention's rights, to be published on the OHCHR website.

Author : Ronald Dworkin
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781780937564

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Taking Rights Seriously by Ronald Dworkin Pdf

A forceful and landmark defence of individual rights, Taking Rights Seriously is one of the most important political philosophical works of the last 50 years.

Author : Ronald L. Akers,Gary F. Jensen
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781412812344

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Social Learning Theory and the Explanation of Crime by Ronald L. Akers,Gary F. Jensen Pdf

Social learning theory has been called the dominant theory of crime and delinquency in the United States, yet it is often misrepresented. This latest volume in the distinguished Advances in Criminological Theory series explores the impact of this theory. Some equate it with differential association theory. Others depict it as little more than a micro-level appendage to cultural deviance theories. There have been earlier attempts to clarify the theory's unique features in comparison to other theories, and others have applied it to broader issues. These efforts are extended in this volume, which focuses on developing, applying, and testing the theory on a variety of criminal and delinquent behavior. It applies the theory to treatment and prevention, moving social learning into a global context for the twenty-first century. This comprehensive volume includes the latest work, tests, and theoretical advances in social learning theory and will be particularly helpful to criminologists, sociologists, and psychologists. It may also be of interest to those concerned with current issues relating to delinquency, drug use/abuse, and drinking/alcohol abuse.

Author : Jack White
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798887518442

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The Arrowhead Detectives in The Mystery of The Disappearing Baby by Jack White Pdf

A disappearing baby leads Larry, Ted, Penny, Faith, and Cherry on a dangerous but exciting journey to an old house in Arrowhead County. Why does the baby disappear and then reappear? Is Mrs. Rockler really a fugitive on the run from the law? Will they find Larry before he's blown up? Looking out the living room window, what does Larry see? Why did Larry disappear? How did Ted and Cherry get into their wooden cage that has no doors or windows? Who is that calling the Rivers' residence, pleading for help, and is cut off with a loud and deadly scream? Follow Larry and his friends as they take on these questions to find the answers at the risk of their very lives as they depend on the Lord for help to keep them safe.

Author : Duncan Fallowell
Publisher : Union Books
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781908526458

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How to Disappear by Duncan Fallowell Pdf

WINNER OF THE 2012 PEN/ACKERLEY PRIZE A haunting memoir on the nature of belonging and the lure of escape. In this series of five brilliantly written and irrepressibly quirky travelogues, Duncan Fallowell sets out to odd corners of the world in pursuit of some extraordinary and improbable characters who were, in most cases, momentarily famous – or infamous – and then simply disappeared. From an out-of-season Gozo and a becalmed Indian hill-town; to a remote Scottish island, where a German artist vanished immediately after he had bought a large island in the Hebrides, and a Welsh fishing village, where Fallowell tracks down the model for Sebastian Flyte, the aristocratic anti-hero of Evelyn Waugh’ s Brideshead Revisited, How to Disappear winds through the eerie abyss that can open up between someone – or something – being both real and phantom. Written with a fierce intelligence and charmingly offbeat humour, How to Disappear is one of the most unusual ‘ autobiographies’ – not to mention collection of travellers’ tales – ever written.

Author : Séamus McKendry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Disappeared persons
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110124588

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Disappeared by Séamus McKendry Pdf

Author : Elisabeth Hanscombe
Publisher : Interactive Publications Pty Ltd
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781925231595

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The Art of Disappearing by Elisabeth Hanscombe Pdf