The House of Broken Bricks

Williams, Fiona

Faber&Faber

The House of Broken Bricks: 'Shocking and powerful . . . This is the best kind of story telling.' Victoria Hislop

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Cooking for Friends

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Entertaining & Holidays

Foulsham & Co Ltd

the TITLE explains it all. the latest in the best-selling series has been designed to meet a spread of everyday needs. there are recipes that can be easily put toge ther at the

The Classic 1000 Quick & Easy Recipes

Humphries, Carolyn

Chopra, Veena

Taylor, Chrissie

Crook, Susan

Quick & Easy

This introductory textbook in social policy argues for the centrality of race, gender and class in welfare theory and practice. The book describes and evaluates the major theoretical perspectives on welfare, as well as the different strands of feminism and work on racism which are relevant to social policy. The author develops a new analytical framework for the study of the welfare state which takes account of factors deriving from capitalism, patriarchy, racism and the international division of labour. This framework is then used to re-examine the major developments in the history of the welfare state in Britain, from the nineteenth century to the so-called crisis of the welfare state today. Fiona Williams draws out the implications of her approach for current debates about welfare policy and strategy.

Social Policy: A Critical Introduction : Issues of Race, Gender, and Class

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Polity Pr

This major introductory textbook in social policy breaks new ground in arguing for the centrality of race, gender and class in welfare theory and practice.

Social Policy: A Critical Introduction

Polity

Hans Keller wrote the Jerusalem Diary in 1977 and 1979 during two visits to the Mishkenot Sha'ananim, a residence for writers and artists. As a senior figure at the BBC and as a shrewd and witty polymath steeped in music, sociology and psychoanalysis, he was better placed than most to record the artistic, social and political life of Israel at a crucial juncture in its history. The Diary, which he described as an `anti-journal', was in the first place a reaction to Saul Bellow's To Jerusalem and Back. But the result is far more than a topical riposte: at a time of renewed turbulence in the Middle East, with another dramatic shift in favour of the right-wing Likud party, it is as sharp and relevant now as it was then. Milein Cosman has selected her own, remarkable drawings. Winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society's Prize for Book of the Year in 2001.

The Jerusalem Diary: Music, Society and Politics, 1977 and 1979 (Hans Keller Archive)

Keller, Hans

Wintle, Christopher

Social Sciences

Plumbago Books

The House of Broken Bricks: A Novel

United States

Henry Holt and Co.

Social Policy: A Critical and Intersectional Analysis

About the Author\nFiona Williams is Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at the University of Leeds.\nWelfare states face profound challenges. Widening economic and social inequalities have been intensified by austerity politics, sharpened by the rise in ethno-nationalism and exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, recent decades have seen a resurgence of social justice activism at both the local and the transnational level. Yet the transformative power of feminist, anti-racist and postcolonial/decolonial thinking has become relatively marginal to core social policy theory, while other critical approaches – around disability, sexuality, migration, age and the environment – have found recognition only selectively. 
This book provides a much needed new analysis of this complex landscape, drawing together critical approaches in social policy with intersectionality and political economy. Fiona Williams contextualizes contemporary social policies not only in the global crisis of finance capitalism but also in the interconnected global crises of care, ecology and racialized borders. These shape and are shaped at national scale by the intersecting dynamics of family, nation, work and nature. Through critical assessment of these realities, the book probes the ethical, prefigurative and transformative possibilities for a future welfare commons. 
This significant intervention will animate social policy thinking, teaching and research. It will be essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the complexities of social policy for the years ahead.

Anthropology

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Williams, Fiona. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Williams, Fiona