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Understanding Global Social Policy - Understanding Welfare

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Publisher's Synopsis

With a contemporary overview of global social policy formation, the third edition of this leading textbook identifies key issues, debates and priorities for action in social policy across the Global South and North.

Accessible and lively, it incorporates seven new chapters covering theory, social justice, climate, migration, gender, young people and water, energy and food. The original chapters have also been fully updated to reflect major developments in the fast-changing world of global social policy. Key features include:

 overview and summary boxes to bookend each chapter;

 questions for discussion and follow-up activities;

 further reading and resources.

Exploring what it means to locate human welfare within a global framework of social policy analysis and action, this textbook offers a perfect guide for curious students.

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Book information

ISBN: 9781447358046
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Imprint: Policy Press
Pub date:
Edition: Third edition
DEWEY: 361.61
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 400
Weight: 680g
Height: 172mm
Width: 241mm
Spine width: 27mm