Radical Help by Hilary Cottam
How should we live: how should we care for one another; grow our capabilities to work, to learn, to love and fully realise our potential? This exciting and ambitious book shows how we can re-design the welfare state for this century.
Packed with moving vignettes. . Cottam's ideas could help transform the way we all live * New Statesman *
Humane and beautifully written . . . there are powerful ideas here. This book should lie required reading for every politician, professional and manager who seeks to make the UK a better place -- Nicolas Timmins * Prospect *
Radical Help is the most important book I have read in the last decade. It is a must read for everyone - in the public, civic, or private sectors - who believes that we can indeed make a measurable and lasting difference in the lives of our fellow human beings, even those who may seem hardest to help -- Anne-Marie Slaughter
Humane and beautifully written . . . there are powerful ideas here. This book should lie required reading for every politician, professional and manager who seeks to make the UK a better place -- Nicolas Timmins * Prospect *
Radical Help is the most important book I have read in the last decade. It is a must read for everyone - in the public, civic, or private sectors - who believes that we can indeed make a measurable and lasting difference in the lives of our fellow human beings, even those who may seem hardest to help -- Anne-Marie Slaughter
Hilary Cottam is an internationally acclaimed social activist whose work in Britain and with communities around the world has focused on collaborative and affordable solutions to some of the greatest social challenges of our time. Her first book Radical Help was hailed as 'mind-shifting' by David Brooks in the New York Times and has been translated internationally. Awarded an OBE in 2019 for services to the welfare state, Hilary has been recognised by Fast Company in the US for her pioneering creativity and by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader. Hilary's TED talk has had close to a million views. www.hilarycottam.com
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| ISBN 13 | 9780349009094 |
| ISBN 10 | 0349009090 |
| Title | Radical Help |
| Author | Hilary Cottam |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 2019-05-02 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
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