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Calling for a fundamental change in the focus of public policy in America, this book paints a vivid portrait of the nation's social health. Miringoff and Opdycke clearly show that social progress has stalled and the country's energies need to be directed at critical domestic issues in the years ahead.The authors propose a new agenda for monitoring America's social well-being built around sixteen key indicators of American life, such as infant mortality, teenage suicide, health insurance coverage, and affordable housing. They maintain that social conditions, like economic conditions, must be co

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary of Spanish terms -- 1. Introduction -- Feminist geographies -- How crises created a transnational community -- Gender and itinerant migrations -- Bolivian migrations in context -- Intersectionality -- Methodology -- Structure of the book -- A note on the use of 'community' -- 2. Gender, migration, and social transformation -- Feminist geographies of migration -- Gender as necessary but not sufficient -- Intersectionality -- Emergent critiques of intersectionality -- Transnationalism -- The emancipatory potential of migration -- Autonomy -- Notes -- 3. Origins -- Tracing elusive origins -- The mining town -- The creation of a new 'community': the informal urban settlement -- Gender relations -- Feminisation of Bolivian migrations -- Gendered mobilities from the Cochabamba neighbourhood -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4. Mobility and social networks -- Border crossings -- Social networks -- Sequencing -- Motivation: predominance of the material? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5. Work -- Work in the mining centre -- Work in Cochabamba after internal migration -- From the mine to garment workshops: work in Argentina -- Spain -- Does migration lead to social mobility? -- Becoming breadwinners -- Notes -- 6. Care -- Negotiating social reproduction in transnational social fields -- Care as a reason for migrating -- Family separations -- The challenges of combining migration with parenting -- Transnational parenting -- Changes in gender roles during separations -- Combining migration with family life -- The migrants' parents -- Conclusion -- 7. Intimacy -- Intimacy and itinerant migration -- Leaving children behind -- Consequences -- Migration and domestic violence.

The post‐1990 health reforms in health and social care have resulted in quasi‐markets, centralized funding and an acceptance of top‐down managerialism.The analysis of contracting within the public sector has focused on the extent to which the market has affected equity, access and choice for users ‐ but it has also had a tremendous impact on staff, staff morale and their relationships. Whilst policy makers demand joint practice in order to deliver continuous care, the market culture has resulted in competitive or depressed behaviour amongst professional managers and support staff. The bureaucratic public administrations were criticized for reinforcing rigid departmentalization and a stagnant culture ‐ the contracting environment and reductionist performance management (NPM and managerialism) appear to be having a similar blocking effect on those staff developing new relationships and working beyond establishment boundaries. This paper outlines what are perceived to be the barriers to social transformation in health and social care services, as relayed by those actively engaged in building bridges across professions and agencies. The research input is based on a mid‐stream ESRC Management Innovation Project.

American Patriotism, American Protest explores how, during the 1970s and beyond, the gay rights movement, second-wave feminism, the protests against busing to desegregate schools, the tax revolt, and the antiabortion struggle all drew inspiration from the protest movements of the 1960s.

Les premières lois sociales apparaissent en Europe au 19e siècle à la suite de la révolution industrielle. Elles constituent alors une réponse ponctuelle à la misère des travailleurs. Elles résultent indéniablement de l'action ouvrière, mais aussi du souci des classes dirigeantes de maîtriser les classes laborieuses devenues dangereuses. L'invention du droit social, va contribuer au cours du 20e siècle à la disparition des « travailleurs pauvres ». En revanche, ce début de 21e siècle est marqué par leur augmentation dans un bon nombre de pays. Des personnes ayant une activité, généralement salariées, y ont un revenu familial inférieur au seuil de pauvreté et sont dans l'incapacité d'accéder à certains droits fondamentaux, alors même qu'existent des droits du travail et de la protection sociale substantiels, des réglementations, des statuts d'emploi, des salaires minima légaux et/ou conventionnels. Comment le droit social et les politiques publiques permettent-ils ou limitent-t-ils l'existence de « travailleurs pauvres » ?Intégrant l'éclairage d'autres disciplines et des points de vue internationaux, cet ouvrage réunit et croise les analyses de spécialistes reconnus de droit social de pays d'Europe mais aussi d'Afrique du sud, d'Australie, du Canada, des États-Unis et du Japon. Dans un contexte d'accentuation de la concurrence économique et sociale, d'individualisation des relations de travail, d'affaiblissement des organisations syndicales, cet ouvrage rappelle l'importance de normes de droit social protégeant réellement la qualité de la vie de tous les travailleurs. Il intéressera les responsables économiques et sociaux, les praticiens du droit social et les professeurs et chercheurs en droit social et en droit européen.