Youth, Education and Risk: Facing the Future provides a provocative and valuable insight into how the dramatic social and economic changes of the last twenty years have affected the lives of Western youth. Covering young people's attitudes towards relationships and health, the authors provide a comprehensive perspective on young people in Western society in the 1990s.The book reviews ten years of research, policy and practice as related to the 15-25 age group and compares data from the UK, Australia, the USA and Canada. It also argues for the need to develop new research and policy frameworks that are more in tune with the changed conditions of life for Western youth. The book sets out the conceptual basis for a new approach to youth and the practical implications for research, education and youth policy in the new millenium.

Youth, Education and Risk: Facing the Future

Politics & Social Sciences

Wyn, Johanna

Dwyer, Peter

Social Sciences

Routledge

Precarious Lives: Forced Labour, Exploitation and Asylum

This groundbreaking volume presents the first detailed look at forced labor among displaced migrants who are seeking refuge in the United Kingdom. Through a critical engagement with contemporary debates about sociolegal statuses, endangerment, and degrees of freedom and its lack, the book carefully details the link between asylum and forced labor and shows how they are both part of the larger picture of modern slavery brought about by globalization.

Business & Money

Waite, Louise

Hodkinson, Stuart

Lewis, Hannah

Economics

Policy Press

In recent years, the term social innovation, or SI, has entered mainstream policy discourse; broadly construed, SI refers to pioneering, effective solutions to social problems that benefit society at large rather than individuals. This book explores the full meaning of SI and what it offers to people analyzing social policy, including the origins and background of the concept, the reasons for its rise to prominence, and the ways it has thus far been applied. Does it actually represent a significant departure in theory or practice, or is it merely a rhetorical change? Simone Baglioni and Stephen Sinclair offer here a rich analysis of the concept that will enable practitioners to reach informed conclusions.

The Impacts of Welfare Conditionality: Sanctions Support and Behaviour Change

Jones, Katy

Scullion, Lisa

McNeill, Jenny

B.R. Stewart, Alasdair

Sociology

Three leading Africa scholars investigate the social forces driving the democratic transformation of postcolonial states across southern Africa. Extensive research and interviews with civil society organizers in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Zambia, Malawi, Namibia, and Swaziland inform this analysis of the challenges faced by non-governmental organizations in relating both to the attendant inequality of globalization and to grassroots struggles for social justice.
 Peter Dwyer is a tutor in economics at Ruskin College in Oxford.
 Leo Zeilig Lecturer at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London.

African Struggles Today: Social Movements Since Independence

History

Zeilig, Leo

Africa

Haymarket Books

Understanding Social Citizenship: Themes and Perspectives for Policy and Practice (Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice Series)

This updated and revised edition of Understanding social citizenship is still the only citizenship textbook written from a social policy perspective. It provides students with an understanding of the concept of citizenship in relation to UK, EU and global welfare institutions; covers a range of welfare debates and issues; explores inclusion and exclusion; combines analysis and discussion of social policies and uses easy-to-digest text boxes. The revised second edition contains new topical sections on 'Cameron's Conservatism' and the EU and A8/10 migration in the UK.The book is essential reading for undergraduates in social policy, sociology, social work, politics and citizenship, A/AS level students and their teachers, and those on access courses, foundation degrees and teacher training courses.

Government is currently committed to radical reform of the welfare system underpinning social citizenship in Britain.  Welfare rights and responsibilities is a response to this, focusing on welfare reform and citizenship.  Specifically it explores three issues central to citizenship's social element: provision, membership and the link between welfare rights and responsibilities(conditionality).Part 1 discusses competing philosophical, political and academic perspectives on citizenship and welfare.  Part 2 then moves discussions about social citizenship away from the purely theoretical level, allowing the practical concerns of citizens (particularly those at the sharp end of public provision) to become an integral part of current debates concerning citizenship and welfare.  The author gives voice to the 'ordinary' citizens who actually make use of welfare services.The book offers an accessible overview of contemporary debates about the contested concepts of citizenship and welfare, linking them to recent developments and discussions about the new welfare settlement and values that underpin it.  It combines relevant debates within political philosophy, social policy and sociology that relate to social citizenship with recent policy developments.Welfare rights and responsibilities allows the presently marginalised voices of welfare service users to become a valued element in contemporary debates about the extent of social citizenship and the reform of the welfare state.  It is therefore important reading for students and teachers of social policy, sociology and politics.  It will further appeal to a wider audience of policy makers and professional social workers with an interest in welfare reform/service users accounts.

Welfare rights and responsibilities: Contesting social citizenship

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