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The welfare state and social work- Pursuing social justice (Record no. 9176)

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fixed length control field 02794nam a2200133Ia 4500
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ISBN 0-7619-3024-8
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 361.973
Item number FIG/W
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Personal name Figueira-McDonough Josefina
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The welfare state and social work- Pursuing social justice
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Name of publisher Sage Publications
Place of publication London
Year of publication 2007
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages 439p.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Social justice
-- United States
-- Human services
-- Making sense of social justice : Justice as a value of social work, social work, Gil on social determinism and constructing a just society, Piven and Cloward on welfare control and disruption, labor movements, welfare as a control mechanism, social workers and strategies of disruption, Gilbert on balanced reform from within, excesses pf welfare expansion, inefficiencies of welfare, enabling state and role of social workers, behavioral strategies, Jordan on struggling for justice, ethic of social justice and roles assigned to social workers, liberal democratic system, Wakefield on justice as the organizing principle, understanding social justice in liberal democracies, evaluating distributive justice in US
-- Interpreting welfare in US- beyond exceptionalism " Fragile roots of welfare in US from colony to Gilded era, ambiguous ancestry of welfare and social work- 1900-1950, from the aftermath of world war II to the great society, weakening of welfare state gains speed, FAP, SSI, food stamps and COLA, work protection, local fiscal assistance act, Nixon's successors- Ford and Carter, social work in seventies, social security reforms, labor's slippery slope, Reagan's second term and Bush's presidency, social work in a regressive era, end of the millennium and demise of entitlement to public assistance, PRWORA, TANF
-- Lesser Americans- historical legacies- limited democracy : Women and welfare state, economic and social restructuring, place of women in new deal, old age insurance, unemployment insurance, public assistance for families, welfare through the color lens, African Americans, Mexican Americans, native Americans
-- Contemporary directions of welfare states in developed nations : Types of welfare states, different outcomes and future needs, different logics of welfare states, alternative institutional designs, comparing welfare types, achievements of welfare regimes, future of welfare in postindustrial societies, child centered social investment, new gender contract, new social contract for an aging society
-- Locating and counteracting sources of injustice : Framing policy participation, social work's commitment to justice for 21st century, policy decision making, policy practice, building influence from the bottom up, social movements, influence in policy making, shaping policy implementation, judicial policy making, interdependence among types of policy practice
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