Power and Welfare

Power and Welfare

Author: Nanna Mik-Meyer

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 0415534429

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When the state punishes criminals or removes children at risk, its power is immediately apparent. However, power is also at stake when the state seeks to educate, advise, or empower citizens, and this book encourages reflection on the exercise of professional power in these less coercive encounters.


Power Resources Theory and the Welfare State

Power Resources Theory and the Welfare State

Author: Walter Korpi

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 1998-01-01

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 9780802071712

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Rather than simply asserting that all social policies in all capitalist societies exist to maintain capitalism and serve the long-term interests of the capitalist class, PRT examines the nature and impact of social policies and the level and types of social inequality in a variety of advanced capitalist nations.


Professional Power and Social Welfare

Professional Power and Social Welfare

Author: PROFESOR PAUL. WILDING

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2024-03

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781032741413

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First published in 1982, Professional Power and Social Welfare examines the nature, extent and significance of professional power in the broad area of social welfare. Paul Wilding fills a major gap in the literature of the welfare professions. He looks at the power of the professions in policymaking, in resource allocation, their power over people, their power to define needs and problems, and their limited accountability. He analyses the basis of this power, and reviews criticism of the claims, achievements, knowledge and ideals of the professions. His conclusion is that the only satisfactory relationship between professions, clients and society must be one of partnership: a balance of professional, political, bureaucratic and consumer power. This book will be of interest to students of sociology and political science.


To Provide for the General Welfare

To Provide for the General Welfare

Author: Theodore Sky

Publisher: Associated University Presse

Published: 2008-09

Total Pages: 446

ISBN-13: 9780874130614

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Traces the course of the constitutional controversy over the spending power and the role of that power in driving an expansion in federal activity and authority from 1787 forward.


Fixing Families

Fixing Families

Author: Jennifer A. Reich

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 0415947278

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First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.


Women, the State, and Welfare

Women, the State, and Welfare

Author: Linda Gordon

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres

Published: 2012-11

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 0299126633

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A collection of essays about women and welfare in America, this book discusses how welfare programmes affect women and how gender relations have influenced the structure of such programmes. Issues such as race and class are also discussed.


Achieving Power

Achieving Power

Author: Stuart Rees

Publisher: Allen & Unwin Australia

Published: 1991-01-01

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 9780044423355

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Social welfare text that challenges the dominance of economic rationalist thought and develops new theories of citizenship, democracy and empowerment. Would be useful as a reference for tertiary students as well as for professionals. The author is Professor of Social Work at Melbourne University.


The Power of Citizens and Professionals in Welfare Encounters

The Power of Citizens and Professionals in Welfare Encounters

Author: Nanna Mik-Meyer

Publisher: Social and Political Power

Published: 2022-08-09

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 9781526110299

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This book shows the workings of power in the micro dynamics of welfare encounters. By staying close to real world welfare encounters, the book contributes to the broad scholarly field of welfare studies that either takes a Foucauldian perspective on governance, Weberian approach to the bureaucracy or contributes to the sociology of professions.