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  • Irish Social Policy

    A Critical Introduction

    by Fiona Dukelow, Mairéad Considine ...
    This 2nd edition of a highly respected textbook offers a comprehensive introduction to Irish social policy. It provides an accessible, critical overview taking account of significant changes over recent years.The book is organised across four key sections:1: Traces the emergence and development of Irish social policy from its origins to the present2: Situates the Irish case in the wider context of ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • Mobilising Classics

    Reading radical writing in Ireland

    Edited by Fiona Dukelow, Orla O'Donovan ...
    The terms patriarchy, institutional racism, sustainable development and alienation may be familiar but this familiarity is often removed from the analytical contexts in which these ideas emerged. This book provides a series of rich reflections on the interaction between the radical ideas associated with these and other authors, and political action in Ireland.The classic texts that comprise the ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Irish Welfare State in the Twenty-First Century

    Challenges and Change

    Edited by Mary P. Murphy, Fiona Dukelow ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides a critical and theoretically-informed assessment of the nature and types of structural change occurring in the Irish welfare state in the context of the 2008 economic crisis. Its overarching framework for conceptualising and analysing welfare state change and its political, economic and social implications is based around four crucial questions, namely what welfare is for, who ... Read more

    $141.99 CAD

  • Defining events

    Power, resistance and identity in twenty-first-century Ireland

    Edited by Fiona Dukelow, Rosie Meade ...
    Series series Irish Society
    This book re-visits and re-thinks some recent defining events in Irish society. Each chapter focuses on an event that has occurred since the start of the twenty first century. Some were high profile, some were ‘fringe’ events, others were widely discussed in popular culture at the time. A number of chapters focus on key moments of protest and popular mobilisation.All of the events covered provide ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Labour Market Policies in the Era of Pervasive Austerity

    A European Perspective

    by Anke Hassel, Masa Filipovic Hrast, Miroljub Ignjatovic, Stefan Domonkos, Tomáš Sirovátka, Hayley Bennett, Elke Heins, Fiona Dukelow, Johan Bo Davidsson, Marcel Hoogenboom, Werner Eichhorst0, Sotiria Theodoropoulou1, Helene Caune3, Emmanuele Pavolini4, Patrik Vesan5, Manos Matsaganis6, David Natali7, Chiara Agostini8 ...
    This book investigates the changing patterns of labour market and unemployment policies in EU member states during the period since fiscal austerity took hold in 2010 during the deepest postwar recession in Europe.Looking at the big European picture, do we see a convergence or a divergence in labour market and unemployment policy trends and outputs? Has labour market insecurity increased or ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • International Human Rights, Social Policy and Global Development

    Critical Perspectives

    by Fred Powell, Stephen McCloskey, Shivaun Quinlivan, Charles O’Mahony, Fiona Donson, Cathal O'Connell, Joe Finnerty, Dessie Donnelly, Ann Marie Gray, Benjamin Mallon, Fiona Dukelow, Birgit Schippers, Daniel Holder, Michal Cenker, Giovanni Farese, Diana Buttu, Peter Herrmann ...
    With international human rights under challenge, this book represents a comprehensive critique that adds a social policy perspective to recent political and legalistic analysis.Expert contributors draw on local and global examples to review constructs of universal rights and their impact on social policy and human welfare. With thorough analysis of their strengths, weaknesses and enforcement, it ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Policy Analysis in Ireland

    by Brendan K O’Rourke, John Mchale, Jason Harold, Eoin Cullina, Clodagh Harris, Pauline Cullen, Diarmuid Scully, Maura Adshead, Orla O'Connor, Chris Mcinerney, Joanna O'Riordan, Bernadette Connaughton, Aodh Quinlivan, Frances Ruane, Muiris MacCarthaigh, Fiona Dukelow, Clare O’Mahony ...
    Series series International Library of Policy Analysis
    Leading Irish academics and policy practitioners present a current and comprehensive study of policy analysis in Ireland.Contributors examine policy analysis at different levels of government and governance including international, national and local and in the civil service, as well as non-government actors such as NGOs, interest groups and think tanks. They investigate the influential roles of ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

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    Why Working-Class Kids Still Get Working-Class Jobs (Provocations Series)

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  • Children and Families

    Edited by Paul Michael Garrett ...
    Series series Critical and Radical Debates in Social Work
    Recent years have witnessed a number of 'child protection' scandals where children, often from the poorest and most marginalised communities, have been on the receiving end of violence, abuse and social harm. In this short form book, part of the Critical and Radical Debates in Social Work series, Paul Michael Garrett looks at the impact of marketisation of social work services in both Ireland and ... Read more

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  • Are the Irish different?

    Edited by Tom Inglis ...
    This book examines the extent and nature of Irish social and cultural difference. It is a collection of twenty-three short essays written in a clear and accessible manner by human scientists who are international experts in their area. The essays cover topics covered include the nature of Irish nationalism and capitalism, the Irish political elite, the differences and similarities of the Irish ... Read more

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  • Poverty, Inequality and Social Work

    The Impact of Neo-Liberalism and Austerity Politics on Welfare Provision

    by Ian Cummins ...
    This book offers a critical, sociological analysis of the domino effect of neoliberalism and austerity politics on the role of social work and wider welfare provision.It argues that social work should move away from the resultant emphasis on risk management and bureaucracy, and return to a focus on relational and community approaches as the cornerstone of practice.Applying theoretical frameworks ... Read more

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  • Thatcher's Children?

    Politics, Childhood And Society In The 1980s And 1990s

    by Dr Jane Pilcher, Jane Pilcher, Stephen Wagg ...
    That childhood is a social construction is understood both by social scientists and in society generally. The authors of this book examine the political issues surrounding childhood, including law making, social policy, government provisions and political activism.; This text examines current social and political issues involving childhood. It looks at the impact of the "New Right" who talk of ... Read more

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