Social Welfare Policy: Responding to a Changing World
- ISBN-10
- 0190948795
- ISBN-13
- 9780190948795
- Series
- Social Welfare Policy
- Category
- Human services
- Pages
- 400
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-11-13
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Authors
- John G. McNutt, Richard Hoefer
Description
"We live in a changing world. Globalization, the rise of the Information Economy and the Global Environmental crisis are profound forces that affect all areas of human existence and are particularly important in the lives of the poor, the powerless and the dispossessed. This book prepares social workers to practice within the policy framework that is framed by these huge macro forces. Many previous books address policy issues from the lenses of earlier times. Forces like industrialization and early ideologies are far less relevant than the once were. The change nature of the economy and the workforce are key drivers of change in the social welfare policy system. This book provides a new perspective that is relevant to current issues. This new edition features the latest in social welfare policy scholarship. Completely updated, it stands at the cutting edge of this viral and important field"--
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- 2020-10-05
- 392 pages
- Paperback
- Oxford University Press
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- 2011
- 380 pages
- Paperback
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- 1988-11
- 494 pages
- Paperback
- Dorsey Press
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