The End of Social Services? - Economisation and Managerialism

The book provides a critical contribution, looking at the development of social ad health services. Though discussing also contemporary issues, the focus is a more fundamental critique, dismantling the ideological questions that are behind these developments, standing in the context of the critique of capitalism and modernisation. In addition, one contribution looks in particular at the development of human resources in the UK and in another contribution an analysis of empirical data is provided it looks at the perspective from EU-NGOs active in the sector of social service provision. The book concludes with a contribution compiled by an informal network of various EU-NGOs, looking in an exemplary way at difficulties faced by the recent developments of marketisation and liberalisation.

About the author

Der Autor ist adjunct professor an der Universität Kuopio, Finnland (ab 1.1.2010 University of Eastern Finland) und adjunct senior lecturer an der Universität Cork, Ireland.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Herrmann
• Publisher: EHV Academicpress
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.06.2011
• EAN: 9783941482913
• ISBN: 978-3-941482-91-3
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 13 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 277 g
• Series: Studien zu vergleichender Sozialpädagogik und Internationaler Sozialarbeit und Sozialpolitik; Studies in comparative social pedagogies and international social work and social policy; Studien zu vergleichender Sozialpädagogik und Internationaler Sozialarbeit und Sozialpolitik; Studies in comparative social pedagogies and international social work and social policy
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories