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"when the welfare people come"
Analyzes the history of the U.S. child welfare system and its implications today, offering ideas for reform and building solidarity.
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A jewish communist in weimar germany
A riveting biography of one of German Communism's most important, if little studied rank and file leaders.
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A paradigm of care
This book celebrates the act of care, from medical professionals to mothers, teachers, and beyond. It highlights the need for a care paradigm to address the crisis of care, advocating for a collective approach to nurture and support all individuals and the environment, emphasizing the importance ...
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Abolition and social work
A critical anthology exploring the debates, conundrums, and promising practices around abolition and social work in academia and within impacted communities. Within social work—a profession that has been intimately tied to and often complicit in the building and sustaining of the carceral state—a...
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Alexander shlyapnikov, 1885-1937
The first biographyin any languageof Alexander Shlyapnikov, a leader and founder, along with Kollontai, of the Workers’ Opposition.
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Angela davis
Featuring a new introduction by the author, Angela Davis: An Autobiography is a classic account of a life in struggle.
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Antonio gramsci
This engrossing political biography aims to lift Gramsci’s legacy out of the sterile debates that have endured since his death.
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Capitalism and disability
This book comprises a collection of groundbreaking writings by Marta Russell on the nature of disability and oppression under capitalism.
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Care
An eye-opening reckoning with the care economy, from its roots in racial capitalism to its exponential growth as a new site of profit and extraction. Since the earliest days of the pandemic, care work has been thrust into the national spotlight. The notion of care seems simple enough. Care is ab...
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Empowering communities
Empowering Communities: A Roadmap to Poverty Alleviation in South Africa provides a comprehensive analysis of the structural barriers that sustain poverty while offering a strategic framework for breaking the cycle.
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Eslanda
The first biography of the bold, principled, and fiercely independent woman who defied convention to make her own mark on the world.
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Exploring the world of social policy
This bold new textbook represents a significant step forward in social policy teaching by combining comparative and global perspectives. Introducing readers to a wide spread of international challenges and issues, the book shows how insights into policy can be generated using a comparative and m...
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Financial inclusion
Should the public play a greater role within the financial system? Decisions about money are a part of our everyday lives. Supporters promote financial inclusion as a way of helping people navigate decisions about money. However, critics fear these policies promote the financialisation of the wel...
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Finding my voice
Eric Garner's daughter describes what it is like to have her father murdered by the police while the whole world watched.
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Health policy in the united states
Written by a well-respected health and public policy expert, this book provides a comprehensive exploration of the under-appreciated role of public health policy in the United States’ medical care industry. The book offers students: • an introduction to the fundamentals of health policy, with co...
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Living wages and the welfare state
Are living wages an unaffordable and unwieldy aspiration or a key progressive reform? Demands for fair minimum incomes have dominated national debates amid the COVID-19 pandemic. This topical book addresses the rapidly shifting politics of minimum wages in US, the UK, New Zealand, Canada, Irelan...
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Loving in the war years
An updated edition combining two classic works of Chicana and queer literature, with a new introduction by renowned writer and luminary, Cherríe Moraga. In celebration of the 40th anniversary of its original publication, this updated edition of Loving in the War Years combines Moraga’s classic m...
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Malcolm x
An engaging examination of the religious and political philosophy of one of the most important African-American thinkers of the 20th-century
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Marxism in a lost century
The first political and intellectual biography of the founder of the American version of council communism, Paul Mattick
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Religion and welfare in europe
Using welfare as a prism, Religion and Welfare in Europe explores regional conceptions and variations in welfare and religion across Europe. Methodological approaches to research and practice draw thematic comparisons on these issues using case studies focused on gendered and minority perspectiv...
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Repeatedly missing children
Designed as an accessible and comprehensive resource for numerous practitioners in policing, youth and social work, education, this is also appealing reading for student and teachers of policing and criminology in higher education.
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Richard titmuss
This is the first full-length biography of Richard Titmuss, a pioneer of social policy research and an influential figure in Britain’s post-war welfare debates. Drawing on his own papers, publications, and interviews with those who knew him, the book discusses Titmuss’s ideas, particularly those ...
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Rx appalachia
An account of radical responses to the opioid crisis facing women in Central Appalachia.
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Sexual and reproductive health and rights in sub-saharan africa
Edited by renowned experts, this work explores how digital tools can improve the accessibility, quality, and reach of sexual and reproductive health and rights services, while also addressing legal, ethical, and human rights considerations.
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The politics of che guevara
A political portrait focused on Guevara’s thought and political record aimed at dispelling many of the myths about the revolutionary.
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The rise and fall of the privatized pension system in chile
‘The Rise and Fall of the Privatized Pension System in Chile’ analyses the Chilean experience with a privatised pension system and examines its impact on pension levels for the ageing population, differences in benefits across different groups, impact on local capital markets, savings redistribut...
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The shame game
What does it mean to be poor in Britain and America? For decades the primary narrative about poverty in both countries is that it has been caused by personal flaws or ‘bad life decisions’ rather than policy choices or economic inequality. This misleading account has become deeply embedded in the...
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The short guide to community development
The only up-to-date, accessibly written short guide to community development, this third edition offers an invaluable and authoritative introduction. Fully updated to reflect changes in policy, practice, economics and culture, it will equip readers with an understanding of the history and theory ...
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The torture machine
A warrior for the people, Flint Taylor has spent nearly fifty years fighting for justice, from the courtrooms of Cook County to the US Supreme Court.
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Things that make white people uncomfortable
Super Bowl Champion and three-time Pro Bowler Michael Bennett is an outspoken proponent for social justice and a man without a censor.
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Tomas young's war
An Iraq war veteran's powerful testament to the true cost of war.
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Transformative learning in healthcare and helping professions education
This book introduces transformative learning to build resilient professional identities in healthcare and helping professions. It offers strategies for coping with burnout and compassion fatigue, emphasizing resilience through first-hand stories and the importance of mentors and role models in pr...
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Uncivil rites
Salaita exposes the blatant disregard for academic freedom in the academy through his personal struggle with the University of Illinois.
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Understanding 'race' and ethnicity
This new edition of a widely-respected textbook examines welfare policy and racism in a broad framework that marries theory, evidence, history and contemporary debate. Fully updated, it contains: • a new foreword by Professor Kate Pickett, acclaimed co-author of The Spirit Level • two new chapte...
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Understanding global social policy
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, soci...
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Worth fighting for
Former US Army Ranger walks across America for a fallen comrade and finds his voice as a war resister.
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