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The contributors to this volume examine the extent to which each country has adopted measures to focus social benefits on specific population groups and particularly social welfare program areas.
Social and Labour Market Reforms in Italy from Maastricht to Berlusconi Maurizio Ferrera, Elisabetta Gualmini ... 1998 Introduction of a new ' indicator of socio - economic conditions ' ( ISE ) for means - tested benefits Introduction ...
In this work, Maurizio Ferrera offers a detailed analysis of the efforts made to reduce poverty and social exclusion in Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece.
An excellent resource preparing social workers for the present and future challenges of practice in the field of health care, the Handbook of Health Social Work, Second Edition features discussion on: New trends in social work and health ...
Lawrence Mishel, Jared Bernstein, and Sylvia Allegretto, The State of Working America 2006 (Ithaca, ... Peter Dreier, “Why America's Workers Can't Pay the Rent,”Dissent 47.3 (summer 2000): 39; Tom Petruno and Kathy M. Kristof, ...
'Dismantlement.' Since the 1970's, these have become the catchphrases used to describe the condition of the welfare states in Europe, in academic and media analyses alike. This book provides an alternative, more optimistic interpretation.
parliament – and the difficult negotiations with the social partners, forced the government substantially to scale down ... and social assistance, as well as the consolidation of new instruments such as the ISE and the RMI, will work to ...
Dalrymple, B. & Burke, B. 1995, Anti-Oppressive Practice: Social Care and the Law, Open University Press, Buckingham. ... Davies, L. & Leonard, P. eds, 2004, Social Work in a Corporate Era: Practices of Power and Resistance, Ashgate, ...
Ipswich:TheRobertson CentreConcord VideoandFilm Council. www.concordvideao.co.uk Rankin, J. (2004) Who Cares?Building the Roche,D. and Social ... Sinclair,I.(1990) 'Residential care', in I. Sinclair,R. Parker, D.Leatand J. Williams(eds)
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