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  • The Struggle for Public Goods in the Shadow of Fascism

    Hope at Dusk

    by Michael Fabricant ...
    The Struggle for Public Goods in the Shadow of Fascism examines the present diminishment of democracy through the prism of intensifying conflict between market freedom and citizen rights. The fate of democracy is at the center of this book’s exploration of the decline of the welfare state and rise of radical right politics.Sources of hope in difficult times as expressed by artists and organizers ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Charter Schools and the Corporate Makeover of Public Education

    What's at Stake?

    by Michael Fabricant, Michelle Fine ...
    This book will reset the discourse on charter schooling by systematically exploring the gap between the promise and the performance of charter schools. The authors do not defend the public school system, which for decades has failed primarily poor children of color.  Instead, they use empirical evidence to determine whether charter schooling offers an authentic alternative for these children. In ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Austerity Blues

    Fighting for the Soul of Public Higher Education

    by Michael Fabricant, Stephen Brier ...
    A generation of budget cutting has eviscerated the very idea of public higher education in America.Public higher education in the postwar era was a key economic and social driver in American life, making college available to millions of working men and women. Since the 1980s, however, government austerity policies and politics have severely reduced public investment in higher education, ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

  • Changing Politics of Education

    Privitization and the Dispossessed Lives Left Behind

    by Michael Fabricant, Michelle Fine ...
    The authors persuasively argue that the present cascade of reforms to public education is a consequence of a larger intention to shrink government. The startling result is that more of public education's assets and resources are moving to the private sector and to the prison industrial complex. Drawing on various forms of evidence-structural, economic, narrative, and youth-generated participatory ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Welfare State Crisis and the Transformation of Social Service Work

    by Michael Fabricant, Steve F. Burghardt, Irwin Epstein ...
    This book has emerged in response to social service workers' vivid descriptions of changes in the practice of their craft during the past 15 years and to the scanty literature that addressed their concerns. Few works have attempted to explore the interplay between the recent broader changes affecting the welfare state (fiscal crisis, cost containment, privatization, etc) and the restructuring of ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

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    Edited by Charles Conteh, Thomas J. Greitens, David K. Jesuit, Ian Roberge ...
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    The key difference between success and failure for most governance systems is adaptation, specifically the ability to resolve the existing social, cultural, economic and environmental challenges that constrain adaptation. Local, regional and national systems differ in how they are designed to organize effective participation and create innovative ideas for missions, goals, strategies and actions. ... Read more

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  • Advocacy Leadership

    Toward a Post-Reform Agenda in Education

    by Gary L. Anderson ...
    Series series Critical Social Thought
    In this timely and important new book, Gary Anderson provides a devastating critique of why a managerial role for educational leaders is counterproductive, especially for improving opportunities for low-income students and students of color, and instead proposes ways of re-theorizing educational leadership to emphasize its advocacy role. Advocacy Leadership lays out a post-reform agenda that moves ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Blind Spots

    Why We Fail to Do What's Right and What to Do about It

    by Max H. Bazerman, Ann E. Tenbrunsel ...
    When confronted with an ethical dilemma, most of us like to think we would stand up for our principles. But we are not as ethical as we think we are. In Blind Spots, leading business ethicists Max Bazerman and Ann Tenbrunsel examine the ways we overestimate our ability to do what is right and how we act unethically without meaning to. From the collapse of Enron and corruption in the tobacco ... Read more

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  • Reclaiming Populism

    How Economic Fairness Can Win Back Disenchanted Voters

    by Eric Protzer, Paul Summerville ...
    Populist upheavals like Trump, Brexit, and the Gilets Jaunes happen when the system really is rigged. Citizens the world over are angry not due to income inequality or immigration, but economic unfairness: that opportunity is not equal and reward is not according to contribution.This forensic book draws on original research, cited by the UN and IMF, to demonstrate that illiberal populism strikes ... Read more

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  • Family-Centered Policies and Practices

    International Implications

    by Katharine Briar-Lawson, Hal Lawson, Charles Hennon ...
    Analyzing the critical juncture of family-centered policy and practice, this book places the universal institution of the family in a global context. By including a conceptual framework as well as practice components, the authors offer an original multimodal approach toward understanding family-centered policy practice from an international perspective. It provides grassroots strategies for ... Read more

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  • Corporatizing Canada

    Making Business Out of Public Service

    by Jamie Brownlee, Chris Hurl, Kevin Walby ...
    From schools to hospitals, from utilities to food banks, over the past thirty years corporatization has transformed the public sector in Canada. Economic elites take control of public institutions and use business metrics to evaluate their performance, transforming public programs into corporate revenue streams.Senior managers use corporate methodology to set priorities in social services and ... Read more

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  • Mediating Interpersonal and Small Group Conflict

    by Cheryl A. Picard ...
    This is a guide to the theory and practice of mediation. It sets out a systematic approach to the use of mediation and to assuming the role of mediator. This book will be one of value to individuals interested in becoming mediators, to parties in conflict considering recourse to mediation to resolve issues, to students studying mediation as a dispute resolution alternative, to professionals who ... Read more

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