It is imperative that we train leaders who are able to intervene efficiently with service users and to support a better organization of the workplace. It is especially important to look at the many issues related to postsecondary training and human resources, such as recruiting and keeping these leading professionals. Accessibility and Active Offer thus combines theory and empirical data to help future professionals understand the workplace issues...

Asia's population is aging and old-age income support and social services is an emerging challenge. Strengthening pension systems in Asia is therefore a key concern for inclusive development in the region. In many Asian countries, pension systems are still inadequate in terms of both coverage and delivery of stipulated benefits. This is particularly so for smaller economies of Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, and Viet...

Résumé : Les discours qui circulent aujourd'hui sur la pauvreté et les personnes qui la subissent sont bien souvent erronés. Or, les derniers chiffres montrent que la pauvreté touche plus d'un Belge sur cinq. Pour améliorer le vivre ensemble, il s'agit de tenir compte de ces 20 % de la population, de connaître leurs vécus, et d'enrayer les discriminations qu'ils endurent. Car les idées reçues et les « fake news » sont à l'origine de bien...

"Winner of the 2009 Best Book Award in Political Sociology, American Sociological Association" "Co-Winner of the 2009 Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book, Section on Sociology of Culture, American Sociological Association" Brian Steensland is assistant professor of sociology at Indiana University. Today the United States has one of the highest poverty rates among the world's rich industrial democracies. The Failed Welfare Revolution shows us that things...

American social policy today largely serves global corporate interests rather than the general public, according to William Roth. Based on incisive analyses of economic globalization, class, politics, and bureaucracy, The Assault on Social Policy argues that the perfection of the free market is a myth. Roth analyzes the rhetoric used to make poverty seem acceptable, shows how corporations affect the distribution of wealth and other resources, and...

Mark Tushnet is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. His many books include The New Constitutional Order and Taking the Constitution Away from the Courts (both Princeton). He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Unlike many other countries, the United States has few constitutional guarantees of social welfare rights such as income, housing, or healthcare. In part this is because many Americans...

Let's say you're the devil, and you want to corrupt the American republic. How would you go about it? According to David Hyman, you might create something like Medicare, the federal health care program for the elderly. Hyman submits that Medicare may be the greatest trick the devil ever played. Medicare feeds on the avarice of doctors and other providers, turns seniors into health care gluttons, and makes regions of the United States green with envy...

A crucial issue that confronts development in South Asia is how to build a better life for people displaced by infrastructure development projects. This book comprises recent displacement and resettlement case studies conducted by eight anthropologists in South Asia. Each contributor wrote around the key theme of the book: Is involuntary resettlement a development opportunity for those displaced by development interventions? In this book, "resettlement"...

Esta obra constituye un hito histórico en la visión académica y científica del trabajo del cuidado. En su dilatada trayectoria académica, M. Ángeles Durán, doctora honoris causa por la Universitat de València, se ha preocupado por la inserción del trabajo no remunerado en el análisis de la estructura social y por los vínculos entre las relaciones de poder y los procesos de producción de conocimiento científico. El cuidado se presenta,...

This guidebook helps ensure that community training investments are optimized and yield the desired results. It provides learning facilitators with guidelines and tools for carrying out various phases of the training management cycle, including analysis, design, development, execution, monitoring, and evaluation. The guidebook was developed as part of the Department of Social Welfare and Development's Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan – Comprehensive...