Jim Ife 
Human Rights and Social Work [PDF ebook] 
Towards Rights-Based Practice

This book looks at globalisation in historical perspective and *examines the experience of East Asian economies during the financial crisis *provides an account of globalisation through the …

”Community” is so overused both in everyday language as well as in scholarly work that it could easily be dismissed as a truism. However, the persistence of the term itself shows that the idea …

The purpose of this book is to examine how ideology operates–in the sense of influencing the conduct of inquiry–in the policy sciences, defined as economics, political science, and sociology. The a …

Based on ethnographic research conducted in ”Starlets”, a lap-dancing club in the North of England, this book delves into what is often seen as the ”deviant”, and ”stigmatized” world of …

Originally published in 1984. This volume brings together papers concerned with the problems of regional development in both Eastern and Western Europe. These include regional, economic, and social i …

Bringing together leading European and North American experts, this timely volume answers questions about the implications and management of the new external borders of the European Union following …

In the current critical European dilemma as to whether to increase diversity policies or move towards an assimilationist policy, it is difficult to know what the Spanish approach is. Because …

Recycling the disabled: Army, medicine, and modernity in WWI Germany examines the ”medical organisation” of Imperial Germany for total war. Faced with mounting casualties and a growing labour …

This book examines Polish migration to Ireland in the context of ”new mobilities in Europe”. It includes detailed accounts of the working lives of a group of mainly skilled Polish migrants in …

The ascent of globalisation tells the sweeping historical drama of the development of globalisation, from the Second World War to the present day.The story is told through the richly detailed …