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Social work and world poverty
- Author:
- JORDAN Bill
- Journal article citation:
- International Social Work, 51(4), July 2008, pp.440-452.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This article examines social work's role in relation to the losers in the global process of economic restructuring. It analyses the implications for practice of the very different fates of the least advantaged people in several world regions, and the relevance of new approaches to capacity-building, social capital and well-being for social work with those living in poverty.
Social theory and social policy: choice, order and human well-being
- Author:
- JORDAN Bill
- Journal article citation:
- European Journal of Social Theory, 8(2), May 2005, pp.149-170.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This article contends that social policy faces a crisis over whether a viable collective order can be constructed out of individual choices. The neo-liberal paradigm is now challenged by neo-conservatives, who argue for policies derived from traditional moral, religious and patriotic values. This raises issues about the nature of social bonds, the institutional order and collective life itself. The article argues that it provides an opportunity for social theorists and policy analysts to co-operate in re-examining these questions. However, these debates indicate a need for social theorists to confront their relationship with Enlightenment accounts of how commerce and private property enable liberty and consensual government. In the face of recent evidence of ‘stalled well-being’ within increasing prosperity, the article argues for a new analysis of choice and solidarity.
Immigration, asylum and welfare: the European context
- Authors:
- DUVALL Franck, JORDAN Bill
- Journal article citation:
- Critical Social Policy, 22(3), August 2002, pp.498-517.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This article analyses the relationship between an emerging EU policy on immigration and asylum, and the 'modernization' of welfare state regimes. The development of new programmes for recruiting skilled and unskilled labour from outside the EU is part of an attempt to make labour markets more flexible and to increase mobility. But it is accompanied by tougher measures to deter asylum seekers and control 'illegal immigration'. The authors argue that this new regulatory regime will continue to be challenged by forced migration and by the spontaneous movement of populations.
Social work and the third way: tough love as social policy
- Author:
- JORDAN Bill
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 249p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Examines the reforms to the Welfare State carried out by New Labour and the role of social work in their implementation. Discusses how the principle of "no rights without responsibilities" has worked in practice and critically examines the concept of evidence-based practice.
Poverty, exclusion and New Labour
- Authors:
- STEPNEY Paul, LYNCH Richard, JORDAN Bill
- Journal article citation:
- Critical Social Policy, 19(1), February 1999, pp.109-127.
- Publisher:
- Sage
With the publication of the Green Paper, 'A New Contract for Welfare', the government has sent out its analysis of the links between poverty, exclusion and the benefit system. This article traces New Labour thinking on these topics to popular discourses on poverty that constitute a new politics of welfare. Argues that these reforms will increase the coercion of poor people and do little to improve productivity or reduce public expenditure. This article concludes by outlining an alternative approach, based upon the resistance of poor people themselves, combining economic regeneration and community development with appropriate social support.
Democracy and criminal justice
- Authors:
- JORDAN Bill, ARNOLD Jon
- Journal article citation:
- Critical Social Policy, 44/45, Autumn 1995, pp.170-182.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Explores the benefits and costs of involving citizens in criminal justice policy. Considers recent arguments that democratic participation is a source of economic dynamism and effective governance. They contend that these advantages do not accrue when inter-group conflict and social exclusion lead to a 'politics of enforcement'. In the United States, and now in Britain, pressures for repressive policies have grown in these circumstances. The British government's shift to more populist penal policies appears to signal a recognition that opportunities and incentives for employment and social inclusion are inadequate. It increases the risk of a cycle of rising enforcement costs, in criminal justice and in other social policy spheres.
Poverty, the underclass and probation practice
- Authors:
- JORDAN Bill, JONES Martyn
- Journal article citation:
- Probation Journal, 35(4), December 1988, pp.123-127.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Argues that the connection between poverty and crime must be seen in the context of political and social as well as economic factors.