Understanding Global Social Policy (Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 144735804X ISBN 13: 9781447358046

Publisher: Policy Press, 2022

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.

About this title

About the Authors

Reader in Social Policy, University of York

Lecturer in International Social Policy at the University of York.

Nicola Yeates is Professor of Social Policy in the Department of Social Policy and Criminology at The Open University.

Chris Holden is Reader in International Social Policy in the Department of Social Policy and Social Work at the University of York.

Edition details

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 144735804X
• ISBN 13: 9781447358046
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400
• Editor: Yeates Nicola, Holden Chris