Author : John Curry
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,1 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Introductary textbook on the social services in Ireland - covers social development, guaranteed income, housing (incl. Planning of housing needs, housing policy, living conditions, etc.), Education, health services, welfare (incl. Social work), etc., And includes comparisons with EC social policy. Bibliography pp. 265 to 270, references and statistical tables.
Author : John Curry
Publisher : Institute of Public Administration
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 28,68 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Ireland
ISBN : 9781904541004
Author : Mary P. Murphy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 28,48 MB
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1137571381
This book provides a critical and theoretically-informed assessment of the nature and types of structural change occurring in the Irish welfare state in the context of the 2008 economic crisis. Its overarching framework for conceptualising and analysing welfare state change and its political, economic and social implications is based around four crucial questions, namely what welfare is for, who delivers welfare, who pays for welfare, and who benefits. Over the course of ten chapters, the authors examine the answers as they relate to social protection, labour market activation, pensions, finance, water, early child education and care, health, housing and corporate welfare. They also innovatively address the impact of crisis on the welfare state in Northern Ireland. The result is to isolate key drivers of structural welfare reform, and assess how globalisation, financialisation, neo-liberalisation, privatisation, marketisation and new public management have deepened and diversified their impact on the post-crisis Irish welfare state. This in-depth analysis will appeal to sociologists, economists, political scientists and welfare state practitioners interested in the Irish welfare state and more generally in the analysis of welfare state change.
Author : Virginia Crossman
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,58 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Ireland
ISBN : 9780716530893
This book is a ground-breaking history of poverty and welfare in modern Ireland, in the era of the Irish poor law. As the first study to address poor relief and health care together, the book fills an important gap, providing a much-needed introduction and assessment of the evolution of social welfare in 19th- and early 20th-century Ireland. The collection also addresses a number of related issues, including private philanthropy, the attitudes of landowners towards poor relief, and the crisis of the poor law during the Great Famine of 1845-1850. Together, these interlinking contributions both survey current research and suggest new areas for investigation, providing further stimulus to the growing field of Irish welfare history.
Author : Fiona Dukelow
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 21,20 MB
Release : 2017-05-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1447329635
This 2nd edition of a highly respected textbook offers a comprehensive introduction to Irish social policy. It provides an accessible, critical overview taking account of significant changes over recent years. The book is organised across four key sections: 1: Traces the emergence and development of Irish social policy from its origins to the present 2: Situates the Irish case in the wider context of the politics, ideology and socio-economic factors relevant to the development and reform of welfare states 3: Analyses core social service areas with specific reference to the contemporary Irish context 4: Explores how social policy affects particular groups in Irish society including children, older people, people with disabilities, carers, new immigrant and minority ethnic groups, and LGBT people. Discusses the challenges posed by environmental issues and the importance of a social policy perspective Text boxes used throughout provide policy summaries, definitions of key concepts, along with guides for further reading and discussion. This is a valuable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying Irish social policy and allied subjects.
Author : Fred Powell
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 37,95 MB
Release : 2017-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1447332911
This book analyzes the changing shape of Irish society over the hundred years since the 1916 rising, arguing that there are distinctive master patterns that characterize its development of a welfare state that triangulates among church, state, and capital. Fred Powell charts the influence of social movements that resisted oppressive power structures, including the labor and feminist movements, organizations working for the rights of tenants and the homeless, survivors of institutional abuse, groups of asylum seekers and refugees, and activists for gay rights and minority and ethnic cultural rights. The tension between these groups and the more conservative institutions that have dominated Ireland raises major questions about whether an inclusive welfare state is possible in a quasi-religious society.
Author : Noreen Kearney
Publisher : Institute of Public Administration
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,46 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Ireland
ISBN : 9781904541233
Author : Bryan Fanning
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,14 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Ireland
ISBN : 9781904558828
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".
Author : Michelle Norris
Publisher : Springer
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,23 MB
Release : 2016-11-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3319445677
This book examines the long-term development of the Irish welfare state since the late nineteenth century. It contests the consensus view that Ireland, like other Anglophone countries, has historically operated a liberal welfare regime which forces households to rely mainly on the market to maintain their standard of living. Drawing on case studies and key statistical data, this book argues that the Irish welfare state developed differently from most other Western European countries until recent decades. Norris's original line of argument makes the case that Ireland’s regime was distinctive in terms of both focus and purpose in that Ireland’s welfare state was shaped by the power of small farmers and moral teaching and intended to support a rural, agrarian and familist social order rather than an urban working class and industrialised economy. A well-researched and methodical study, this book will be of great interest to scholars of social policy, sociology and Irish history.
Author : Gabriel Kiely
Publisher :
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 12,15 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
The focus in this text is on the historical development of Irish social policy, with a discussion of major influences - such as the European Union - on policy formation.
