Care and social change in the Irish welfare economy / edited by Bryan Fanning, Michael Rush.

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Dublin : University College Dublin Press, 2006.Description: xiv, 270 p. ; 24 cmISBN:

1904558828 (pbk.)
9781904558828

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Contents:

Introduction : Context, change, challenges and care / Bryan Fanning and Michael Rush -- The new welfare economy / Bryan Fanning -- Governance and social partnership / Martin Geoghegan and Fred Powell -- The politics of care / Michael Rush -- Education, life chances and disadvantage / Tina MacVeigh -- Immigration, racism and social exclusion / Bryan Fanning -- Social research and immigration / Alice Feldman -- Sustainable development, social policy and the environment / Kevin Murphy -- Sport, health promotion and social capital / Michael Rush -- Family policy and reproductive work / Michael Rush, Valerie Richardson and Gabriel Kiely -- The childcare question / Nóirín Hayes and Siobhan Bradley -- Disability, children and social care / Suzanne Quin -- Older people and social care / Maria Pierce -- Social policy and the Irish diaspora / Nessa Winston -- Community development and social care / Mary Ellen McCann.

Summary: This work focuses on the implications for Irish social policy of social change including the need to respond to changes resulting from immigration and shifts within the Irish welfare economy that have created new needs for social care.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	Thurles Library Main Collection	361.6109417 FAN (Browse shelf(Opens below))		Available		30026000067669
Standard Loan	Thurles Library Main Collection	361.6109417 FAN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		30026000063320

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The book's focus is on the implications for Irish social policy of social change including the need to respond to changes resulting from immigration and shifts within the Irish welfare economy that have created new needs for social care. Many of the chapters locate Irish debates about care in a broader social policy context. This is a companion volume to "Contemporary Irish Social Policy and Theorising Irish Social Policy".

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This work focuses on the implications for Irish social policy of social change including the need to respond to changes resulting from immigration and shifts within the Irish welfare economy that have created new needs for social care.