This book examines the evolution of the Korean welfare state over the last several decades and the challenges it currently faces as a rapidly aging society. Since the turn of…

Aging populations are creating tremendous pressures on social security systems throughout the world, lifting the need for reform to the top of policy agendas

Gilbert, Neil, Dimensions of Social Welfare Policy, 5/e*/ This social welfare policy book provides a comprehensive theoretical framework for the analysis of social welfare policy.

Since the late 1980s welfare policies in France and the United States have increasingly been shaped by a strong emphasis on citizens’ obligations to work and be independent, and a…

This fully updated manual offers a complete overview of theory and practice in the effective supervision of staff; topics include setting the context, giving feedback, managing poor performance and mediation.

Focusing on community-based child abuse prevention programmes, this manual facilitates programme self-evaluation research so that it can be conducted with a minimum of outside technical assistance. It explores models of…

Drawing on years of experience in a range of industries, this book provides insights into how organisations might successfully transform their field service operations with the help of workforce management…

Assesses the state of the field by introducing readers to the members of the post - Birmingham School generation; the thinkers and theories influencing work in cultural studies, including Giorgio…