Welfare Theory: An Introduction

Social policy debates often get lost in highly technical discussions and in day-to-day politics. This introduction to welfare theory offers an alternative approach to understanding social policy. It reviews the concepts of welfare, equality, liberty and citizenship, key political and sociological themes, old and new welfare ideologies, as well as recent theoretical developments including globalization, postmodernism and risk society.

Business & Money

Fitzpatrick, Tony

Economics

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

A Green History of the Welfare State (Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies)

Environmental problems - particularly climate change - have become increasingly important to governments and social researchers in recent decades. Debates about their implications for social policies and welfare reforms are now moving towards centre stage. What has been missing from such debates is an account of the history of the welfare state in relation to environmental issues and green ideas. A Green History of the Welfare State fills this gap. How have the environmental and social policy agendas developed? To what extent have welfare systems been informed by the principles of environmental ethics and politics? How effective has the welfare state been at addressing environmental problems? How might the history of social policies be reimagined? With its lively, chronological narrative, this book provides answers to these questions. Through overviews of key periods, politicians and reforms the book weaves together a range of subjects into a new kind of historical tapestry, including: social policy, economics, party politics, government action and legislation, and environmental issues. This book will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of environmental policy and history, social and public policy, social history, sociology and politics.

Reference

Routledge

This milestone work is the first to offer in-depth treatment of all aspects of the discipline and practice of social policy globally. Supported by a distinguished international advisory board, the editors have compiled almost 900,000 words across 734 entries written by 284 leading specialists to provide authoritative coverage of concepts, policy actors, welfare institutions and services along a series of national, regional and transnational dimensions. Also included are biographical entries on major policy makers and shapers.
 The editors have particularly striven to provide strong coverage of differing geographical and cultural traditions so that the variety of social policy, as both an academic discipline and a domain of governance, is reflected. Contributors draw in and make the necessary connections with social policy's associated disciplines to provide a rich picture of this vast and highly diverse field. 
 Comprehensive and authoritative, the Encyclopedia has sought to open up rather than to foreclose the numerous areas in which there is on-going research, debate and, sometimes, serious disagreement and divergence in theory and practice. To this end, entries attempt to introduce a core or common ground of understanding before moving on to a wider discussion of debates regarding different conceptual and geographical approaches. The whole is integrated by cross-referencing and each entry includes a bibliography for further reading. There is a full index.
 The International Encyclopedia of Social Policy provides the most substantial mapping of the international study and practice of social policy to date and will stand as a vital storehouse of knowledge for many years to come.

International Encyclopedia of Social Policy

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

This milestone work is the first to offer in-depth treatment of all aspects of the discipline and practice of social policy globally. Supported by a distinguished international advisory board, the editors have compiled almost 900,000 words across 734 entries written by 284 leading specialists to provide authoritative coverage of concepts, policy actors, welfare institutions and services along a series of national, regional and transnational dimensions. Also included are biographical entries on major policy makers and shapers.The editors have particularly striven to provide strong coverage of differing geographical and cultural traditions so that the variety of social policy, as both an academic discipline and a domain of governance, is reflected. Contributors draw in and make the necessary connections with social policy's associated disciplines to provide a rich picture of this vast and highly diverse field. Comprehensive and authoritative, the Encyclopedia has sought to open up rather than to foreclose the numerous areas in which there is on-going research, debate and, sometimes, serious disagreement and divergence in theory and practice. To this end, entries attempt to introduce a core or common ground of understanding before moving on to a wider discussion of debates regarding different conceptual and geographical approaches. The whole is integrated by cross-referencing and each entry includes a bibliography for further reading. There is a full index.The International Encyclopedia of Social Policy provides the most substantial mapping of the international study and practice of social policy to date and will stand as a vital storehouse of knowledge for many years to come.

This Train: An Artist's Journal is like no other book written by Mr. Fitzpatrick. Unlike previous works, this book will include both high quality drawing collage images accompanied by corresponding essays produced over a sixteen-month period. Part memoir, part urban narrative, part socio-political commentary, each piece is a deeply personal and intellectual contemplation of a broader American story. Fitzpatrick is without a doubt the contemporary voice of the workingman, following strongly in the tradition of both Nelson Algren and Studs Terkel. This Train: An Artist's Journey is the culmination of a nearly two-year meditation on the ideas and experiences that bind us to this land; it is a treatise on the American view from the bottom up.

This Train: An Artist's Journal

Arts & Photography

Individual Artists

Firecat Publishing

Relates the activities and profiles those people in Illinois and Missouri who are concerned in changing, keeping, studying, and analyzing the local environment

Signals from the Heartland

Walker Co

Extraordinary images of Chicago, its people, stories, and mysteries -- and their influences on the artist's life -- fill these amazing folk collages. Fitzpatrick serves up fantasy and fact, great architectural landmarks and obscure neighborhood bars, and his own great heroes, real and imagined. Informed by wide reading, a fecund imagination, a vast inventory of memorabilia (factual and imaginary), and a great love for the Windy City, Fitzpatrick has made Chicago his Bombay.

The Wonder: Portraits of a Remembered City

Last Gasp of San Francisco

Chicago, its citizens and its folktales inform this collection of images. Fitzpatrick gives us fantasy and fact, architectural landmarks and obscure neighbourhood bars, and his own heroes, real or imagined.

The Wonder: Portraits of a Remembered City, Vol 2

Last Gasp

Coming of Locusts

Sheba Pub

THE COMING OF LOCUSTS (Signed)

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Sheba Press

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Books by Fitzpatrick, Tony

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Welfare Theory: An Introduction

A Green History of the Welfare State (Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies)

International Encyclopedia of Social Policy

International Encyclopedia of Social Policy

This Train: An Artist's Journal

Signals from the Heartland

The Wonder: Portraits of a Remembered City

The Wonder: Portraits of a Remembered City, Vol 2

Coming of Locusts

THE COMING OF LOCUSTS (Signed)