Welfare Paperback - 2011 - 1st Edition
by Mary Daly
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Details
- Title Welfare
- Author Mary Daly
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Polity Press, Cambridge
- Date 2011
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0745644716I3N00
- ISBN 9780745644714 / 0745644716
- Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.6 in (21.34 x 13.72 x 1.52 cm)
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Themes
- Interdisciplinary Studies: Policy Studies
- Library of Congress subjects Social policy, Public welfare
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011283937
- Dewey Decimal Code 361
From the rear cover
The book connects theory and practice. Tracing the concept's background in economics, political science and social policy, the book juxtaposes welfare with newer approaches, such as subjective well-being, capabilities, care, social exclusion and social capital. The links between welfare and political ideas are also elaborated. The welfare state, as it developed historically in Europe and as it is changing in different countries, is given an important place in the analysis. Drawing on a range of empirical work, the book in its final part considers how individuals and groups attain welfare and how this shapes people's decisions and actions in their everyday lives.
Written in a lively style, this book provides students of sociology, social policy and political science with a valuable point of access to a range of debates and thinking in the field of welfare and related concepts.