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Written by a team of leading social policy analysts, this is the leading textbook in the field and provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of international actors and social policy formation in global context. It includes new chapters on global poverty and inequality, social protection, criminal justice and education.
List of contents
The idea of global social policy ~ Nicola Yeates; Global contexts of human and social development ~ Chris Holden; Global and regional social governance ~ Bob Deacon; Business and global social policy formation~ Kevin Farnsworth; International trade and welfare ~ Chris Holden; Global labour policy ~ Robert O'Brien; Global education policy ~ Roger Dale and Susan Robertson; Global health policy ~ Meri Koivusalo; Global housing and urban policy ~ Sunil Kumar; Global social security and pensions policy ~ Mitchell Orenstein and Nicola Yeates; Global migration policy ~ Nicola Yeates; Global population policy ~ Anne Hendrixon and Sarah Sexton; Global criminal justice policy ~ John Muncie; The idea of global social policy ~ Nicola Yeates; Global contexts of human and social development ~ Chris Holden.
About the author
Nicola Yeates is Professor of Social Policy at The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. She has published widely on issues of globalisation and social policy, including on global migration, social protection and employment (see Open Research Online (www.oro.open.ac.uk). She is a former Editor-in-Chief of Global Social Policy (Sage) and Vice-Chair of the Social Policy Association, and is Chair of the Editorial Board of Social Policy and Society (CUP)
Summary
Written by a team of leading social policy analysts, this is the leading textbook in the field and provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of international actors and social policy formation in global context. It includes new chapters on global poverty and inequality, social protection, criminal justice and education.
