Description:
A comprehensive and accessible guide to the key themes, issues and debates in global social policy. This Reader collects together key papers by international leaders in the field that cover the emergence of global social policy as a dynamic and expanding field, the transformation of welfare from a predominantly national to a global field of action, and the impact of globalisation on key welfare discourses and governance mechanisms.
The global social policy reader will have broad appeal among undergraduate and postgraduate students in a range of social science subjects, including social and public policy, social care and health studies, sociology, politics, economics, international relations and development studies.
Brief description: Nicola Yeates is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the Open University, Milton Keynes, England. She has published extensively in the areas of globalisation, migration and social policy, and is co-Editor of Global Social Policy (SAGE). Chris Holden is Lecturer in Global Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is a member of the Social Policy Association's executive committee and has published widely on globalisation, trade and health & social policy.
Review Quotes:
"The Global Social Policy Reader is an expertly compiled book with a welldefined
argument against the neo-liberal policies implemented through the Washington Consensus...". Sakari Taipale in Social Policy and Administration