A must-have text for social work students and practitioners which draws on the extensive years of experience of Principal Social Workers to shed light on contemporary issues.
A gradual shift can be discerned in how the concept of racism is seen, interpreted, and opposed in response to emergent realities and evolving discourses.
An accessible introduction to children, media, and technology that centers questions of access, diversity, equity, and inclusion to provide a timely and much-needed text for communication and media studies students and scholars.
In UK society, there are cultural norms and assumptions that affect many marginalised groups and this book aims to address and challenge these through the lens of the people who have lived these experiences.
Self-neglect covers a wide range of behaviours, from neglecting to care for one's personal hygiene and health to one's surroundings; this can include behaviours such as hoarding of objects and/or animals.
A gradual shift can be discerned in how the concept of racism is seen, interpreted, and opposed in response to emergent realities and evolving discourses.
Self-neglect covers a wide range of behaviours, from neglecting to care for one's personal hygiene and health to one's surroundings; this can include behaviours such as hoarding of objects and/or animals.
Active Social Work with Children with Disabilities provides a comprehensive social worker's guide to working with children with disabilities, exploring current issues from the perspective of both the social worker and the family.
A powerful book comprising stories of anti-racist action by higher education scholars including researchers and teachers at various stages of their careers.
Focusing on health care interpreting in Australia, this book examines the under-recognition of interpreting from a critical sociolinguistic perspective encompassing language, race and class.
This work examines how beauty standards, specifically the ideology of "e;fairness"e;, contributed to the racialization of bodies in early modern England.
'Everyone should read this book' - George Monbiot'A compelling read for anyone who cares about all lives on our planet' - Tanya Steele CBE, CEO of WWF UKIn this extraordinary and hopeful book, leading environmentalist Tony Juniper CBE identifies the real problem at the heart of the climate and nature crises.
This study demonstrates the significance of using contemporary art in scholarly debates about cultural aspects of skin, in particular "e;whiteness"e; as a phenomenon that is both overly visible and invisible.
How a convergence of policy, law, and profit drives the use of criminal background checks in hiringMost employers in the United States routinely conduct criminal background checks on job applicants, weeding out those with criminal convictionsand thus denying opportunities to those who need them most.
Starke Stimmen für eine Zukunft ohne Diskriminierung: Ein hoffnungsvolles Debattenbuch, für mehr Vielfalt und Gerechtigkeit in Kirche und Gesellschaft.
Bringing together the latest research with practical insights from the authors' professional experience, this important book provides a context for the conversations that are needed within organisations and offers practical guidance towards action that can be taken to improve the working life of LGBTQ+ employees.
Towards a Critical White Theology is a landmark text bringing together contributions from scholars and practitioners, Black/Postcolonial theologians and critical White theologians, from the UK, the USA and New Zealand, exposing the dynamics of whiteness in the history and the present of the Christian church, and setting an agenda for the future, especially for White-racialised theologians committed to dismantling whiteness.
Planning and Productivity in Sweden (1976) examines the success of Sweden's economy and working arrangements, detailing how a resource-poor nation came to achieve such high living standards.
Eye-opening, practical, thoughtful and revolutionary Danny Dorling, author ofPeak InjusticeA birds-eye view of tenant organising that touches down in moving stories of everyday struggle Tracy Rosenthal, co-author ofAbolish RentA brilliant and inspiring analysis of the causes and possible solutions to one of the central issues facing people around the world today: the problem of housing Jeremy Gilbert, author ofTwenty-First Century SocialismAs housing crises proliferate around the world, so does the fightback.
"e;Claims about genetic superiority ignore the real drivers of human inequality"e;, The Conversation, by Robert Chernomas and Ian HudsonBiological justification for all forms of inequality has a long history, with the claim that particular groups suffer disproportionately from inherited flaws of ability and character used to explain a remarkably wide variety of inequalities.
Training and Promotion in Nationalised Industry (1951) is the results of a study made into the personnel department and into certain aspects of personnel policy in the nationalised coal, electricity, gas, transport and airways industries in postwar Britain.
Towards a Critical White Theology is a landmark text bringing together contributions from scholars and practitioners, Black/Postcolonial theologians and critical White theologians, from the UK, the USA and New Zealand, exposing the dynamics of whiteness in the history and the present of the Christian church, and setting an agenda for the future, especially for White-racialised theologians committed to dismantling whiteness.
