Author: Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Author: Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Social Workers Affecting Social Policy
Author: Gal, JohnPublisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 1447320395
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Furthering social justice and human rights is a fundamental principle underlying the social work profession. Engaging in social policy formulation processes is a major route through which social workers can realise this goal. This type of social work activity has been termed ‘policy practice’. The aim of this book is to shed light on policy practice in social work discourse, education and practice in eight liberal democracies. This is the first effort to undertake a cross-national study of social worker engagement in social policy formulation processes. The book offers insights into questions such as ‘what is the importance attributed to social worker involvement in policy change in the social work discourse and education in different countries?’ and ‘how do social workers influence social policy in various national settings?’ These issues are relevant to social worker practitioners, students, educators and researchers, as well as to social policy scholars, who are interested in the role of professionals in social policy formulation.
Welfare and Social Protection in Contemporary Latin America
Author: Gibrán Cruz-MartínezPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429895666
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Social protection serves as an important development tool, helping to alleviate deprivation, reduce social risks, raise household income and develop human capital. This book brings together an interdisciplinary team of international experts to analyse social protection systems and welfare regimes across contemporary Latin America. The book starts with a section tracking the expansion of social assistance and social insurance in Latin America through the state-led development era, the neoliberal era and the pink-tide. The second section explores the role played by local and external actors modelling social policy in the region. The third and final section addresses a variety of contemporary debates and challenges around social protection and welfare in the region, such as gender roles and the empowerment of CCT beneficiaries, and welfare provision for rural outsiders. The book touches on key topics such as conditional cash transfer programmes, trade union inclusionary strategies, transnational social policy, state-led versus market-led welfare provision, explanatory factors in the emerging dualism of social protection institutions, social citizenship rights as a consequence of changing social policy architecture and different poverty reduction strategies. This interdisciplinary volume will be of interest to economists, political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists and historians working on social protection in Latin America, or interested in welfare systems in the global south.
The Balance between Worker Protection and Employer Powers
Author: Nuno Cerejeira NamoraPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527526097
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
This book analyses the most important problems and challenges of the current labour market from the point of view of the balance between the parties of the employment contract. The contributions here are related to various pressing topics, including, for example, the future of work and worker protection on an international level against the strengthening of employers’ powers. In addition, the nature and limits of employers’ power, non-competition contractual clauses and workers’ rights in the face of new communication and information technologies are also discussed. The contributors are drawn from several countries, such as Portugal, Spain, Bolivia, Italy, México and Switzerland. The book will appeal to lawyers, legal experts, human resources experts, economist, judges, academia, and staff from companies and trade unions, and employers’ representation. The volume features insights and contributions in different languages, with chapters in Spanish (12), English (4) and Portuguese (5).
Spanish Society After Franco
Author: S. MangenPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1403940215
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Spanish Society After Franco investigates the origins of collective social welfare from the early nineteenth century, to set the context for an analysis of contemporary social policy from the perspective of economic and political trends since the transition of democracy in the mid-1970s. The review of policy evolution is complemented by an examination of the critical impact of social change, particularly the decline of the power of the church, regional devolution, the gender dimension and social exclusion.
Es posible pensar una nueva política social para América Latina
Author: Juan PoncePublisher: Flacso-Sede Ecuador
ISBN: 9789978671825
Category : History
Languages : es
Pages : 226
Book Description
Se discute desde un punto de vista teórico, los diferentes enfoques de la política social y se analiza el fenómeno de la migración.
Social Exchange and Welfare Development
Author: Luis MorenoPublisher: Editorial CSIC - CSIC Press
ISBN: 9788400073787
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Esta publicacion recoge las contribuciones mas importantes que se presentaron en el segundo seminario internacional de politica social, cuyo tema de discusion fue la naturaleza del estado del bienestar y en particular, de los procesos de cambio social entre individuos y colectivos. Esta dividido en cuatro secciones: La primera incluye contribuciones que se refieren al contexto europeo, la segunda parte se dedica a la accion del voluntariado. La tercera seccion se ocupa de buscar nuevas fuentes y nuevos enfoques en el tema de la accion social. La cuarta seccion aborda monograficamente la implementacion de programas de salarios y beneficios sociales, con una referencia especifica al caso del pais vasco.
Author: Publisher: IICA
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Perspectivas Sociales
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Human services
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Latin American Social Policy Developments in the Twenty-First Century
Author: Natália SátyroPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030612708
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
This book explores the scope of reforms and changes in the social protection systems in Latin America that have started at the beginning of the 21st century. It describes how and to what extent changes in social protection systems and social policies have occurred in the region in recent decades. Taking a comparative approach, the volume identifies the triggers for the transformations and how such pressures are received by the welfare regime, or a specific policy sector, to finally yield a given type of reform. The analysis is characterized by the presence of certain factors that explain the development of social protection systems in Latin America, such as economic growth, the consolidation of democratic political regimes, and the region’s Left Turns. The book also examines to what extent common challenges and processes induced by international institutions have led to convergence among countries or welfare regimes, or whether each maintains its own identity.
