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Social Welfare for a Global Era
International Perspectives on Policy and Practice
- James Midgley - University of California - Berkeley
April 2016 | 264 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Written by internationally renowned author and scholar James Midgley, Social Welfare for a Global Era provides a comprehensive framework for examining social welfare from a global perspective. Drawing on a large body of literature and his own extensive knowledge of the field, Dr. Midgley offers students, scholars, and practitioners an up-to-date account of the complex ways social well-being is enhanced in the global era, including the major welfare institutions that provide a cultural context for social welfare policy and practice.
Part I: The Global Context
Chapter 1: The Field of International Social Welfare
Chapter 2: Understanding the Modern World: From Nation State to Global Era
Chapter 3: Globalization and the Global Era
Part II: Promoting Social Welfare in the Global Era
Chapter 4: Families, Communities and Nonformal Welfare
Chapter 5: Nonprofits and Faith-based Services: International Dimensions
Chapter 6: Professional Social Work in the International Context
Chapter 7: Welfare, Markets and Commercial Provision
Chapter 8: Government Welfare in the Modern World
Chapter 9: Governments, Welfare and Social Change
Chapter 10: Social Welfare and International Social Development
Part III: Social Welfare for a Global Era
Chapter 11: International Collaboration in Social Welfare
Chapter 12: Epilogue: Towards a Global Perspective in Social Welfare
