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  • Poor Parents
    Bill Jordan
    Originally published in 1974, this book provides a critique of official policy towards families with young children living on low incomes and looks in detail at some of the myths prevalent in the public debate - both political and academic - about the ’cycle of deprivation’. ...
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    126,17 €

  • Collective Action
    Bill Jordan
    This book examines how different levels and forms of human collectivity have interacted, voluntarily or coercively, and how these transformed societies and polities.Every size and type of human collective involve co-operation among members and competition with other groups. The two most recent trends in human relations - individualism and economic globalisation - have contribut...
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    77,80 €

  • Collective Action
    Bill Jordan
    This book examines how different levels and forms of human collectivity have interacted, voluntarily or coercively, and how these transformed societies and polities. ...
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    268,53 €

  • Embrace the Boom
    Bill Jordan
    Includes Special Introduction by Duke Men’s Basketball Coach Mike Krzyzewski.If you believe pop culture, it’s a world for youth. Don’t tell that to Baby Boomers who have learned they are now in the best time of their lives, where all of their wisdom and hard work have combined to create a life with purpose.Bill Jordan, long-time radio personality turned podcaster and voiceover ...
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    9,69 €

  • Beacons in the Darkness
    Bill Jordan
    Where will your next inspiration will come from? Where will you find your next light? The next stroke of positivity to get out of your rut? The editor of this collection decided to create some of his own light by asking his friends and family for their inspirational stories. Many of those have been compiled here for the world to find that same inspiration. Ranging from upliftin...
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    14,18 €

  • Social Value in Public Policy
    Bill Jordan
    This book considers the role of social value in the making and implementation of public policy, taking into account how concepts such as subjective well-being (SWB) can be used to measure the expected impact of enacted policies. It argues that there is no evidence that markets have contributed to greater well-being, and that moments of crisis, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, rep...
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    79,27 €

  • The Future of Social Work
    Bill Jordan
    This book is an up-to-date analysis of the issues facing the future of the social work profession in the face of rising political authoritarianism, economic inequality and insecurity, class and racial conflicts, fiscal pressure and the COVID-19 pandemic. It provides an account of how these factors interact, and what their consequences are for policy and practice. Reflecting the...
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    48,79 €

  • The Future of Social Work
    Bill Jordan
    This book is an up-to-date analysis of the issues facing the future of the social work profession in the face of rising political authoritarianism, economic inequality and insecurity, class and racial conflicts, fiscal pressure and the COVID-19 pandemic. It provides an account of how these factors interact, and what their consequences are for policy and practice. Reflecting the...
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    83,92 €

  • Automatic Poverty
    Bill Jordan
    Originally published in 1981, Automatic Poverty provides a much-needed alternative to the Radical Right’s analysis. The book argues that Britain’s economic decline is symptomatic of an advanced stage of industrialisation in which productive processes are increasingly mechanised, but output remains static. Under these circumstances workers become redundant, the income of the wor...
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    65,30 €

  • Social Value in Public Policy
    Bill Jordan
    This book considers the role of social value in the making and implementation of public policy, taking into account how concepts such as subjective well-being (SWB) can be used to measure the expected impact of enacted policies. It argues that there is no evidence that markets have contributed to greater well-being, and that moments of crisis, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, rep...
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    77,83 €

  • Immigration, Social Cohesion and Political Reaction
    Bill Jordan
    This book addresses the challenge for social integration posed by immigration into Western liberal democracies. Movement of people, goods and money across borders has increased in recent decades - the phenomenon known as globalisation. But it has been the migration of refugees from civil wars in the Middle East which has most transformed the political life of European societies...
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    77,68 €

  • Paupers
    Bill Jordan
    Originally published in 1973, Paupers looks at poverty through the lens of class and the Welfare State. The book examines those living in poverty, and the direct effects poverty has. The book follows the basis that the economic factors which gave rise to poverty, have little to do with the Welfare State, and that fragmentary changes, can do little to change them. The book’s cor...
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    65,66 €

  • Freedom and the Welfare State
    Bill Jordan
    Originally published in 1976, Freedom and the Welfare State, critiques the Welfare State in Britain and analyses the relationship between freedom and welfare. The book considers philosophical, literary and political expressions of the ideals of liberty, and relates them to present-day issues in social policy and the social services. It tackles the major questions emerging in th...
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    65,20 €

  • The Fate of Our States is Great
    Bill Jordan
    Enjoy your time reading rhymes about the fate of the United States in this collection of poems. Featuring sections on important events, significant people and the presidents, this book will take you back to history class and help you with the fight at trivia night. With 101 poems featuring 12 rhymes a piece from the Lost Colony in 1587 to the Revolutionary War and onward to Y2K...
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    13,88 €

  • The Age of Disintegration
    Bill Jordan
    This book addresses the disintegration of collective units of all kinds, under the twin pressures of economic globalisation and technological automation. At the level of super-states, the constituent nations of the European Union and the former Soviet Union, and of the United Kingdom, have demonstrated this dynamic; and their constituent groups, associations and communities hav...
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    65,55 €

  • Automation and Human Solidarity
    Bill Jordan
    This book provides a detailed analysis of the economic and political implications of the introduction of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics into the service sector of economies that have so far relied on service jobs to sustain levels of employment. It examines how reliance on coercive measures for enforcing low-paid service work attempts to postpone this third Industrial Rev...
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    71,35 €

  • Authoritarianism and How to Counter It
    Bill Jordan
    After the collapse of the Soviet Union, it was assumed that liberal democracies would flourish worldwide. Instead, today authoritarian leaders are gaining power - from Trump’s US and Bolsonaro’s Brazil to Orban’s Hungary - while Russia and China have turned back towards their old, autocratic traditions. This book examines the origins and implications of this shift, and focusses...
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    71,39 €

  • Paupers
    Bill Jordan
    Originally published in 1973, Paupers looks at poverty through the lens of class and the Welfare State. ...
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    187,61 €

  • Automatic Poverty
    Bill Jordan
    Originally published in 1981, Automatic Poverty argues that Britain’s economic decline is symptomatic of an advanced stage of industrialisation in which productive processes are increasingly mechanised, but output remains static. ...
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    220,86 €

  • Freedom and the Welfare State
    Bill Jordan
    Originally published in 1976, Freedom and the Welfare State, critiques the Welfare State in Britain and analyses the relationship between freedom and welfare. ...
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    220,75 €

  • Second Chance at Love
    Bill Jordan
    When Mat lost his soul mate, Ashley, to cancer, he never thought he would find true love again. While attending a support group for tragic losses, Mat befriends Samantha who takes interest in the captivating stories he tells about his life with Ashley and their love for each other. Over time, Samantha is drawn to Mat, but Mat struggles to decide whether love has a place in his ...
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    13,81 €

  • Social Work and Social Policy under Austerity
    Bill Jordan / Mark Drakeford
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    64,26 €

  • Why the Third Way failed
    Bill Jordan
    This insightful and progressive book proposes a new moral approach to public policy to replace Third Way governments’ failed attempts to reconcile global markets with ethically-informed public policies. 3 ...
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    48,46 €

  • Why the Third Way failed
    Bill Jordan
    This insightful and progressive book proposes a new moral approach to public policy to replace Third Way governments’ failed attempts to reconcile global markets with ethically-informed public policies. 3 ...
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    102,50 €

  • Welfare and well-being
    Bill Jordan
    In this original book Bill Jordan presents a new analysis of well-being in terms of its social value, and outlines ways in which this could be incorporated into public policy decisions. 3 ...
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    125,31 €

  • Welfare and well-being
    Bill Jordan
    In this original book Bill Jordan presents a new analysis of well-being in terms of its social value, and outlines ways in which this could be incorporated into public policy decisions. ...
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    48,21 €

  • Social Work and the Third Way
    Bill Jordan / Charlie Jordan
    `This lively book critiques New Labour assumptions and implementation of policies related to citizenship, communities and welfare reform and the implications of current developments for social work. Focusing explicitly on the UK, the book nevertheless draws on examples and comparisions from other countries (including notably Australia and the US, but also countries in the EU an...
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    99,14 €

  • The New Politics of Welfare
    Bill Jordan
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    305,18 €

  • The New Politics of Welfare
    Bill Jordan
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    99,03 €

  • Trapped in Poverty?
    Bill Jordan / Helen Kay / James Davidson
    How do people on low incomes make decisions about employment and benefit claims? Interview material and economic analysis combine with new theories of the relationship between moral and economic reasoning. ...
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    382,71 €