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Housing and social policy: contemporary themes and critical perspectives
- Authors:
- SOMERVILLE Peter, SPRINGINGS Nigel, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 264p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This book looks at the changing nature of housing policy in the UK and how it relates to the economy and society generally. Contributors to the book consider the effects of market forces and state action on low-income households, different social classes, women, minority ethnic groups, and disabled people. It is argued that housing is a key focus for economic development, for social justice, for everyday lived experience, for class struggle, for gender and racial divisions, for organising the life course, and for physical and social regeneration.
Housing, social policy and difference: disability, ethnicity, gender and housing
- Authors:
- HARRISON Malcolm, DAVIS Cathy
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 156p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Examines issues of disability, ethnicity and gender in housing policies and practice. Begins by discussing the interplay between difference, agency and structural factors, noting the broad features of housing trends, policies and experiences. Specific chapters consider disability, race and gender. A final chapter draws the conclusion that housing practices and experiences are diverse, but social regulation still constrains individuals' choices in powerful ways.
Community care, ideology and social policy
- Author:
- COWEN Harry
- Publisher:
- Prentice Hall
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 262p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Hemel Hempstead
Offers a comprehensive evaluation of community care strategies within the context of government social policy, and assesses the shifts in political power from Conservative to Labour towards the end of the century. Includes chapters on: the history of community care; health services and community care policy; social services, community care and the market; older people and community care; disabled people; mental health, homelessness and housing policies; women and community care; black and minority ethnic groups; and citizenship, participation and community care.
Critical social policy: a reader
- Editor:
- TAYLOR David
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 251p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Addresses key issues in social policy, representing a social relations of welfare perspective in the journal Critical Social Policy over the last 15 years. Highlights issues of gender, race, sexuality, disability and age as central to the analysis of welfare. These social relations are shown to underpin questions of need, empowerment and social citizenship. The contributors raise questions about universal and particular arguments for welfare and suggest ways in which welfare strategies may begin to overcome the traditional dichotomies between rights and needs. Argues that the social relations of welfare must be seen as mutually constituting and as the context within which strategies of inclusion and exclusion from welfare must be understood.
The foundations of social work knowledge
- Editor:
- REAMER Frederic G.
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 436p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- New York
Explores the views of leading social work educators in the United States as to what social workers need to know at the foundation level. Includes papers on: the evolution of social work knowledge; social work practice; social welfare policy; human behaviour and social environment; field education; research and evaluation; social work values and ethics; black and minority ethnic people; women; gay and lesbian people; and disabled people.
The equal opportunities handbook: a guide to law and best practice in Europe
- Author:
- COLLINS Helen
- Publisher:
- Blackwell
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 302p.,list of orgs.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
Part 1 provides a background to equal opportunities issues, including sex discrimination, racial discrimination and race relations, age discrimination, sexuality, and discrimination against offenders and ex-offenders. Part 2 looks at law and practice in the UK, and at policy issues. It also includes a section on HIV and AIDS. Part 3 details equal opportunities in the EC, looking at, country by country: the position of women, parental rights and childcare, race relations, disability, age issues, and sexuality.