Social Policy / edited by Hugh Bochel and Guy Daly.

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TextPublication details: London : Routledge, 2014.Edition: Third editionDescription: xvi, 634 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 25 cmISBN:

9781447929574 (pbk.) :

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DDC classification:

320.60941 23

LOC classification:

HV248 .S264 2014

Summary: This thoroughly updated edition provides a comprehensive introduction to contemporary social policy, and addresses its historical, theoretical and contextual foundations. Divided into four sections, it opens with a survey of the socio-economic, political and governmental contexts within which social policy operates, before moving on to look at the historical development of the subject. The third section examines contemporary aspects of providing welfare, whilst the final part covers European and wider international developments.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Barcode
Lending	Causeway Campus	320.60941 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	39548000000351

Previous edition: 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This thoroughly updated edition provides a comprehensive introduction to contemporary social policy, and addresses its historical, theoretical and contextual foundations. Divided into four sections, it opens with a survey of the socio-economic, political and governmental contexts within which social policy operates, before moving on to look at the historical development of the subject. The third section examines contemporary aspects of providing welfare, whilst the final part covers European and wider international developments.

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