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  • Hybrid Social Work

    Contested Knowledge, Fragile Collaboration and Social Citizenship

    This prescient book examines the evolving hybrid nature of social work within modern welfare states. Expert authors discuss how human service providers engage with a variety of other providers and logics, such as medical, psychological, educational and law.Drawing on case studies from Australia, Europe, and North America, chapters analyze the changing responsibilities of social workers, exploring ... Read more

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  • The Culture of Welfare Markets

    The International Recasting of Pension and Care Systems

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    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    This book examines the rise of welfare markets in Western societies and explores their functioning, regulation and embeddedness by addressing the particular field of old age provision, including both retirement provision and elderly care. It goes beyond a mere social policy analysis by investigating major cultural underpinnings of the new (quasi-)markets, with these underpinnings embracing ... Read more

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    An A-Z of contemporary economics in all its forms, Economics: the Key Concepts is an affordable, accessible reference for students, lecturers and economists at every level. The key topics explored include:competition and monopolydevelopment economicsgame theoryproperty rightstaxation.Fully cross-referenced with extensive guides to further reading, this is the essential comprehensive pocket ... Read more

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    Being socially competent is essential in late modern society. We expect people to find their own accommodation, partner, job, community and lifestyle and struggle to find answers for those who are not able or do not have the opportunity to achieve these things. By placing social complexity, social vulnerability and social efficacy within a framework of social policy and social practice, Complexity ... Read more

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  • Hard Choices

    Financial Exclusion, Fringe Banks and Poverty in Urban Canada

    When low-income city dwellers lack access to mainstream banking services, many end up turning to ‘fringe banks,’ such as cheque-cashers and pawnshops, for some or all of their financial transactions. This predicament of ‘financial exclusion’ – faced by those underserved by conventional financial institutions – is comprehensively examined in Jerry Buckland's powerful study, Hard Choices.The first ... Read more

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  • Towards Inclusive Organizations

    Determinants of successful diversity management at work

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    Diversity arising from the mixing of peoples from different cultural backgrounds has long been an issue in nations such as the United States and Australia, and in recent decades, European nations have reached unprecedented levels of cultural diversity due to increased migration. This phenomenon of increasing cultural diversity at the national level sets the context for current social science ... Read more

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