Download or read book Work and Welfare in Britain and the USA written by Bruno Stein and published by London : MacMillan. This book was released on 1976 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comparison of social policy and welfare programmes in the UK and the USA - compares the historical background of the development of the social security systems, training and employment policies, occupational pension schemes, family income supplements, training allowances, etc. References and statistical tables.
Download or read book Actively Seeking Work written by Desmond King and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1995-03-15 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integrating archival and documentary materials with an analysis of the sources of political support for work-welfare programmes, this work examines the reasons behind the lack of effective training and work programmes for the unemployed in Great Britain and the United States.
Download or read book The Welfare State written by David Garland and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Very Short Introduction discusses the necessity of welfare states in modern capitalist societies. Situating social policy in an historical, sociological, and comparative perspective, David Garland brings a new understanding to familiar debates, policies, and institutions.
Download or read book Welfare to Work written by Andreas Cebulla and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been a major transformation in labour market policy in the United Kingdom since the mid 1990s. The obligation of unemployed people to actively seek employment has been strengthened and the receipt of social security benefit has been tied to participation in active job search and job placement programmes. The experience of the United States in experimenting with and implementing welfare to work programmes, dating back to the early 1980s, has been pivotal in shaping labour market and welfare reform programmes in the UK. In this timely work the authors track the influence of US ideology and experience on New Labour's reforms. They present the results of their pioneering examination of over fifty policy experiments in the US, checking whether the correct lessons were learned. An interview-based study of what British policy makers actually used from US experience builds upon this analysis and the book draws US and UK experiences together to understand what kind of programmes work most effectively for which groups. Welfare-to-Work offers readers a unique combination of policy evaluation and the analysis of policy making.
Download or read book Welfare Work and Poverty written by John Clark and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welfare reform has become one of the hottest political topics of recent years. Not only is the welfare state draining billions from the economy, it has given rise to an underclass, lacking the social capital necessary to participate in mainstream society. In this collection of essays the authors consider attempts to reform welfare in both the USA and the UK. David Smith is unimpressed by the Blair government's two flagship policies, the much vaunted New Deal and the introduction of the working families tax credit. Norman Dennis dissects the hollow rhetoric of the official line on the family, and exposes the anti-family tendencies of proponents of the 'Third Way'. Richard Pryke dismisses exaggerated poverty statistics and finds the real problem to be an underclass concentrated in social housing. It is left to US contributors John Clark and Jay Hein to provide an example of welfare reform that works. Since the 1996 welfare reform legislation, the USA has seen caseloads fall by nearly 40 per cent nationwide, with some states showing falls of over 80 per cent. failed to reform a system that saps incentive and rewards bad behaviour. It need not be like this, and it is not too late to change. it. Of the 191,000 people placed into jobs through the New Deal since its inception, more than 50,000 were back on benefits within three months... it is likely that the numbers ultimately returning to the dole are even greater... Of the rest, the vast majority would have found jobs anyway, thanks to the strength of the economy.
Download or read book From Welfare to Work Among Lone Parents in Britain written by James A. Riccio and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Social Welfare Archives in Britain and the U S A written by Colin Harvey and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Social Welfare Archives in Britain and the U S A written by Colin Harvey and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Learning from America written by David P. Dolowitz and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrates how and why the Thatcher government was influenced by the Reagan administration's policies in its development of UK employment policy during the 1980s and 1990s, in particular, the tying of an individual's receipt of welfare benefits to participation in a government employment or training program. These policy changes in the UK were important in their own right, but they acquire even greater significance when studied in the context of how policy transfer works. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Reconstructing Retirement written by David Lain and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thinking about Workfare written by Robert Walker and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of workfare - requiring claimants to work in return for their benefits - is much discussed in Britain but has yet to be implemented. In the United States of America workfare has been an element of Federal policy, and has featured in the language of political rhetoric for about three decades. It has been tried, tested and simultaneously found both welcome and wanting. Thinking About Workfare reviews the experience of American workfare to draw lessons of relevance to the United Kingdom. Policies do not often transplant readily from one country to another. Only by being aware of the context in which policies are forged is it possible to distinguish between features which are likely to inhibit transplantation and those which are not. This study describes the political and administrative background to American workfare, surveys and various programmes and reports detailed evaluations of specific schemes before considering what lessons may be drawn for welfare and employment policies in Britain.
Download or read book Welfare In The British Colonies written by Lp Mair and published by Sagwan Press. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Child Welfare Challenge written by Peter J. Pecora and published by AldineTransaction. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within a historical and contemporary context, this book examines major policy practice and research issues as they jointly shape child welfare practice and its future. In addition to describing the major problems facing the field, the book highlights service innovations that have been developed in recent years. The resulting picture is encouraging, especially if certain major program reforms I are implemented and agencies are able to concentrate resources in a focused manner. The volume emphasizes families and children whose primary recourse to services has been through publicly funded child welfare agencies. The book considers historical areas of service—foster care and adoptions, in-home family-centered services, child-protective services, and residential services—where social work has an important role. Authors address the many fields of practice in which child and family services are provided or that involve substantial numbers of social work programs, such as services to adolescent parents, child mental health, education, and juvenile justice agencies. This new edition will continue to serve as a fundamental introduction for new practitioners, as well as summary of recent developments for experienced practitioners.
Download or read book Austerity Welfare and Work written by Etherington, David and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Etherington provides bold and fresh perspectives on the link between welfare policy and employment relations as he assesses their fundamental impact on social inequalities. Exploring how reforms, including Universal Credit, have reinforced employment and social insecurity, he assesses the role of NGOs, trade unions and policymakers in challenging this increasingly work-focused welfare agenda. Drawing on international and national case studies, the book reviews developments, including rising job insecurity, low pay and geographical inequalities, considered integral to neoliberal approaches to social spending. Etherington sets out the possibilities and challenges of alternative approaches and progressive new paths for welfare, the labour market and social rights.
Download or read book Radical Help written by Hilary Cottam and published by Virago. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How should we live: how should we care for one another; grow our capabilities to work, to learn, to love and fully realise our potential? This exciting and ambitious book shows how we can re-design the welfare state for this century. The welfare state was revolutionary: it lifted thousands out of poverty, provided decent homes, good education and security. But it is out of kilter now: an elaborate and expensive system of managing needs and risks. Today we face new challenges. Our resources have changed. Hilary Cottam takes us through five 'Experiments' to show us a new design. We start on a Swindon housing estate where families who have spent years revolving within our current welfare systems are supported to design their own way out. We spend time with young people who are helped to make new connections - with radical results. We turn to the question of good health care and then to the world of work and see what happens when people are given different tools to make change. Then we see those over sixty design a new and affordable system of support. At the heart of this way of working is human connection. Upending the current crisis of managing scarcity, we see instead that our capacities for the relationships that can make the changes are abundant. We must work with individuals, families and communities to grow the core capabilities we all need to flourish. Radical Help describes the principles behind the approach, the design process that makes the work possible and the challenges of transition. It is bold - and above all, practical. It is not a book of dreams. It is about concrete new ways of organising that already have been developing across Britain. Radical Help creates a new vision and a radically different approach that can take care of us once more, from cradle to grave.
Download or read book Gender and the Welfare State written by Mary Daly and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2003 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comparative picture of the welfare state and gender relations.
Download or read book Conditional Welfare written by Amir Paz-Fuchs and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
