This volume contains interpretive summaries of 144 demonstrations in which individuals, families, or organizations were randomly assigned to alternative policy regimes, to see what difference a policy change would make in their everyday behavior. Information on experimental designs, locations, generalizability, references, and the existence of public-use access to the underlying data are included in the summaries.
Babies and Bosses - Reconciling Work and Family Life
by OECD Publishing
Activities to Promote and Strengthen Children's Sense of Racial, Cultural and Adoptive Identity
by Monica Duck, Franca Brenninkmeyer, Beryl Coley, and Sue Dromey
Homelessness is now a much greater problem than twenty years ago. In Britain today around half-a-million homeless people form a regrettable permanent 'underclass'. This book spells out their similarities with the spurned vagrant of bygone days. It traces how for centuries emergent laws have combated alleged threats from unruly vagrants while largely ignoring causal factors like economic fluctuation, bad harvests, disease and war. It is argued that only educational and social reform will alleviat...
Buying and Selling Social Care (Social Services Policy Forum Paper, #5)
A guide designed to help disabled teenage students make constructive and positive decisions about their lives, education, and careers.
Stategraphy-the ethnographic exploration of relational modes, boundary work, and forms of embeddedness of actors-offers crucial analytical avenues for researching the state. By exploring interactions and negotiations of local actors in different institutional settings, the contributors explore state transformations in relation to social security in a variety of locations spanning from Russia, Eastern Europe, and the Balkans to the United Kingdom and France. Fusing grounded empirical studies wi...
* Provides equal coverage of race, gender and class considerations for social work practices
Peacekeeping and the UN Agencies
This book is a long overdue assessment of the role of the UN specialized Agencies in peacekeeping operations. Special emphasis is given to that most vexed category, 'complex emergencies', invloving entrapped or victimized civilian populations and a plethora of UN national military and NGO actors.While based on the full range of recent history, the contributions to this volume are forward looking and policy-oriented, bringing a hard edged practicality to complex and hitherto under-examined issues...
Introduction to Recreation Services for People with Disabilities
by Charles C. Bullock and Michael J. Mahon