Bill Jordan is Reader in Social Studies at Exeter University and Professor in Social Policy at Huddersfield University. He has written extensively in politics and social policy, including most recently A Theory of Poverty and Social Exclusion (1996).
Télécharger le livre :  The Future of Social Work

This book is an up-to-date analysis of the issues facing the future of the social work profession in the face of rising political authoritarianism, economic inequality and insecurity, class and racial conflicts, fiscal pressure and the COVID-19 pandemic. It provides an...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-08-28

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Télécharger le livre :  Social Value in Public Policy

This book considers the role of social value in the making and implementation of public policy, taking into account how concepts such as subjective well-being (SWB) can be used to measure the expected impact of enacted policies. It argues that there is no evidence that...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-11-06

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Télécharger le livre :  Immigration, Social Cohesion and Political Reaction

This book addresses the challenge for social integration posed by immigration into Western liberal democracies. Movement of people, goods and money across borders has increased in recent decades – the phenomenon known as globalisation. But it has been the migration of...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-09-18

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Télécharger le livre :  The Age of Disintegration

This book addresses the disintegration of collective units of all kinds, under the twin pressures of economic globalisation and technological automation. At the level of super-states, the constituent nations of the European Union and the former Soviet Union, and of the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-03-23

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Télécharger le livre :  Automation and Human Solidarity

This book provides a detailed analysis of the economic and political implications of the introduction of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics into the service sector of economies that have so far relied on service jobs to sustain levels of employment. It examines how...
Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
Parution : 2020-01-25

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Télécharger le livre :  Authoritarianism and How to Counter It

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, it was assumed that liberal democracies would flourish worldwide. Instead, today authoritarian leaders are gaining power – from Trump’s US and Bolsonaro's Brazil to Orban's Hungary – while Russia and China have turned back towards...
Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
Parution : 2019-05-08

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Télécharger le livre :  Social Work and the Third Way

`This lively book critiques New Labour assumptions and implementation of policies related to citizenship, communities and welfare reform and the implications of current developments for social work. Focusing explicitly on the UK, the book nevertheless draws on examples...
Editeur : SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution : 2000-10-23

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Télécharger le livre :  The New Politics of Welfare

This critical and highly topical introduction to the current debates and politics surrounding welfare reform in the United Kingdom and the United States explains the origins and main tenets of the Blair-Clinton orthodoxy. Central to the book is an examination of this...
Editeur : SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution : 1998-09-24

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