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  • Never Enough

    Capitalism and the Progressive Spirit

    by Neil Gilbert ...
    It is said that greed fuels capitalism and socialism feeds on envy. But what happens in a stable society when a successful economy generates material progress for one population sector, while simultaneously creating income inequality and poverty for another sector? While this has long been a classic debate for economists, Neil Gilbert, a social welfare theorist, offers a new take. In this landmark ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Welfare State Theory: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Neil Gilbert ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of social work find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Gender and Social Security Reform

    What's Fair for Women?

    by Neil Gilbert ...
    Series series International Social Security Series
    Aging populations are creating tremendous pressures on social security systems throughout the world, lifting the need for reform to the top of policy agendas. Proposed reforms often have different implications for men and women. At the same time, traditional family and gender roles are changing with the decline in fertility rates and the rapid rise in women's participation in the paid labor force ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Modernizing the Korean Welfare State

    Towards the Productive Welfare Model

    by Neil Gilbert ...
    Modernizing the Korean Welfare State analyzes recent developments in social and public policy in South Korea. Its focus is the new approach to Korea's system of social protection, known as the productive welfare paradigm. This volume brings together an international group of scholars to examine the new paradigm and associated policy developments. In the first part, contributors examine the ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Targeting Social Benefits

    International Perspectives and Trends

    by Neil Gilbert ...
    Series series International Social Security Series
    Over the last decade changing family life and increasing fiscal constraints on welfare expenditures have forced industrialized nations to reconsider how they approach social protection. Faced with fiscal and demographic changes, many countries have been struggling to -develop innovative policy responses. Some involve targeting benefits in order to shrink existing program commitments, to focus ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Activating the Unemployed

    A Comparative Appraisal of Work-Oriented Policies

    by Neil Gilbert, Rebecca A. Van Voorhis ...
    The last decade has witnessed a conspicuous alteration in policies protecting unemployed people in modern welfare states. Social policies are increasingly designed to encourage economic independence. Policy makers have introduced a wide range of reforms linking disability, unemployment, and welfare programs cash benefits to work-oriented measures.Welfare policies are being framed by a new emphasis ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Netter's Head and Neck Anatomy for Dentistry, E-Book

    Netter's Head and Neck Anatomy for Dentistry, E-Book

    by Neil S. Norton, Gilbert M. Willett ...
    Series series Netter Basic Science
    A concise and highly visual guide to clinically relevant anatomy for dentistry, as well as a valuable resource for any healthcare professional interested in head and neck anatomy, Netter's Head and Neck Anatomy for Dentistry, 4th Edition, is an ideal text/atlas for class and exam preparation, as well as a quick review in professional practice. Concise text, high-yield tables, clinical correlations ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Design of Prestressed Concrete to AS3600-2009

    by Raymond Ian Gilbert, Neil Colin Mickleborough, Gianluca Ranzi ...
    The design of structures in general, and prestressed concrete structures in particular, requires considerably more information than is contained in building codes. A sound understanding of structural behaviour at all stages of loading is essential. This textbook presents a detailed description and explanation of the behaviour of prestressed concrete members and structures, both at service loads ... Read more

    $120.99 USD

  • United in Diversity?

    Comparing Social Models in Europe and America

    Edited by Jens Alber, Neil Gilbert ...
    Series series International Policy Exchange
    Since the advent of the European Union, politicians have increasingly emphasized the notion of a European social model as an alternative to the American form of market capitalism, which is seen as promoting economic growth without regard for solidarity and social progress. As this political discourse has advanced, social scientists and academic policy analysts have raised questions concerning the ... Read more

    $57.59 USD

  • Design of Prestressed Concrete to Eurocode 2

    by Raymond Ian Gilbert, Neil Colin Mickleborough, Gianluca Ranzi ...
    The design of structures in general, and prestressed concrete structures in particular, requires considerably more information than is contained in building codes. A sound understanding of structural behaviour at all stages of loading is essential. This textbook presents a detailed description and explanation of the behaviour of prestressed concrete members and structures both at service loads and ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Raising Children

    Emerging Needs, Modern Risks, and Social Responses

    Edited by Jill Duerr Berrick, Neil Gilbert ...
    Modern family life raises tough questions: Who should be responsible for children's daily care? How can their financial support be fairly allocated between parents? Should extended family members be paid for their help? Can women have full careers and also be good mothers? In Raising Children, leading scholars take on these questions and more in order to critically assess policy responses to the ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • The Korean Welfare State

    Social Investment in an Aging Society

    Edited by Kyungbae Chung, Neil Gilbert ...
    Series series International Policy Exchange
    The birth and remarkable expansion of Korean social welfare policy over the last several decades has taken place amidst the socio-economic burdens of a rapidly aging society. This book surveys these developments through the analytic lens of the Social Investment State, under which contemporary policies have altered the essential character of the 20th century welfare states, which had provided a ... Read more

    $76.49 USD