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Florence Nightingale is famous as the ""lady with the lamp"" in the Crimean War, 1854-56. There is a massive amount of literature on this work, but, as editor Lynn McDonald shows, it is often erroneous, and films and press reporting on it have been even less accurate. The Crimean War reports on Nightingale's correspondence from the war hospitals and on the staggering amount of work she did post-war to ensure that the appalling death rate from disease (higher than that from bullets) did not recur. This volume contains much on Nightingale's efforts to achieve real reforms. Her well-known

Florence Nightingale on Society and Politics, Philosophy, Science, Education and Literature, Volume 5 in the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, is the main source of Nightingale's work on the methodology of social science and her views on social reform. Here we see how she took her ""call to service"" into practice: by first learning how the laws of God's world operate, one can then determine how to intervene for good. There is material on medical statistics, the census, pauperism and Poor Law reform, the need for income security measures and better housing, on crime, gender and the fa

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Dedication -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- CHAPTER 1 Introduction -- CHAPTER 2 Early Theorists -- Christine de Pisan -- Mary Astell -- Emilie du Chatelet -- Mary Wortley Montagu -- Sophia -- CHAPTER 3 Theorists on Revolution -- Catharine Macaulay -- Mary Wollstonecraft -- Mary Hays -- Marie Jeanne-Roland -- Germaine de Stael -- Sophie Grouchy de Condorcet -- CHAPTER 4 Theorists on Social Reform -- Flora Tristan -- Harriet Martineau -- Florence Nightingale -- Helen Taylor -- Beatrice Webb -- CHAPTER 5 Theorists on Gender and Violence -- Josephine Butler -- Elizabeth Blackwell -- Frances Power Cobbe -- CHAPTER 6 Theorists on Peace, War and Militarism -- Jane Addams -- Bertha von Suttner -- Olive Schreiner -- Catherine E. Marshall -- Emily Greene Balch -- CHAPTER 7 An Afterword -- Manuscript Sources -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

This debate argues that it is time that knowledge mobilisation or exchange is adopted as a permanent part of academic, policy and practice endeavours, especially in the area of caregiving. Seven-year research on knowledge mobilisation by the National Initiative for the Care of the Elderly clearly shows that knowledge mobilisation affects the behaviour of professionals to provide better service to the betterment of older adults.

Evictions, as markers of housing instability, call attention to the "housing affordability crisis." The purpose of this research was to examine the individual and structural circumstances that contributed to eviction transitions in housing careers across the life course, how housing trajectories spiralled into homelessness, and how the confluence of social policies operated during these transitions. Qualitative interviews indicated that transitions from eviction to homelessness were entangled across the life course and stretched across generations. The study shows how housing policies interact with life-course events and other policies to produce negative and costly effects for the precariously housed.

Evictions, as markers of housing instability, call attention to the "housing affordability crisis." The purpose of this research was to examine the individual and structural circumstances that contributed to eviction transitions in housing careers across the life course, how housing trajectories spiralled into homelessness, and how the confluence of social policies operated during these transitions. Qualitative interviews indicated that transitions from eviction to homelessness were entangled across the life course and stretched across generations. The study shows how housing policies interact with life-course events and other policies to produce negative and costly effects for the precariously housed.

À cause de leur caractère à la fois public et semi-privé, les politiques sociales canadiennes ont engendré un système dualiste de sécurité du revenu pour les retraités. Certains sont entièrement tributaires des régimes de retraite publics tandis que d'autres bénéficient à la fois de régimes publics et de régimes privés. Cette division se manifeste dans leurs conditions de vie, qui ne sont pas les mêmes suivant qu'ils travaillaient dans le secteur central ou dans le secteur périphérique de l'économie. À l'aide de données provenant de l'Enquête sur le vieillissement et l'autonomie, l'auteur étudie les effets du dualisme économique sur le revenu de retraite des hommes et des femmes de son échantillon (N = 20 036). Elle compare les retraités du centre et de la périphérie au point de vue de leurs caractéristiques socio-démographiques et de diverses caractéristiques relatives au travail, au revenu et aux dispositions prises pour la retraite. Des modèles de régression lui permettent ensuite de déterminer les facteurs qui influencent le revenu des retraités du centre et de la périphérie. Les résultats tendent à montrer que le système canadien de pensions de retraite accentue la précarité économique des femmes retraitées, dont on sait qu'elle est liée à leur situation sur le marché du travail et à leurs responsabilités familiales. Ce régime dualiste contribue à créer une sous-classe de retraités, et ses principales victimes sont les femmes qui ont passé leur vie active dans la périphérie de l'économie.