Social Policy

by John Baldock (Editor), Nicholas Manning (Editor), Sarah Vickerstaff (Editor)

The third edition of this textbook remains a key book for students of social policy and other sociology related disciplines in Europe. Updates to this edition cover Labour's administration (1997 to date), taking into account the commitments made by Labour in their 2005 general election
campaign.

Each chapter is written by an expert in the field, to provide comprehensive coverage of a wide variety of social policy and welfare issues. All the existing chapters have been thoroughly reviewed and updated to take into account recent changes in British and European social policy. For this edition
one new chapter has been added-- Globalization and Social Policy.

The chapters are written in a non-technical way and are supported by detailed case studies, suggestions for further reading, end-of-chapter questions and a glossary. In addition, the supporting online resource centre provides further material including weblinks, answers to the end-of-chapter
questions, and updates.

Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

Reviews

[Artemis · Rating 3 out of 5]

Severely outdated but that was expected.
The first chunk was decent but at some point the chapters started declining in quality until at one point I asked myself if there was any critical thinking demonstrated at all.

I did still learn a lot though and for that, 3*.