Children and Social Welfare in Europe by Pringle

Children and Social Welfare in Europe by Pringle

Offering a critique of mainstream welfare frameworks in Europe on the grounds that they ignore issues of gender, race, age, sexuality and disability, this volume addresses the social problems faced by children and carers across Europe (including Eastern Europe).

"This valuable text combines two approachesAn overtly academic approach steers the reader carefully around many intellectual obstacles surrounded with references. But at the same time the writer'spractical experience as a qualified child care social worker and political radical is allowed to challenge both academic findings and politicians' short-term vote-catching policies." - Community Care "The aim of Mr Pringle's book is to compare andanalyse the social organisation of child welfare in a number of European societies. Needless to say, this is an extremely complex and demanding task. Mr Pringle's book promises to become an important contribution to the field of international child care studies. The book can also be seen as a continuation of his earlier work on men and masculinity's in that it in a scholarly sound manner combines issues of theory and practice within the field of social work." - Professor Sven-Axel Mansonn, Director of Research in the Department of Social Work at Goteborg University

Keith Pringle is currently reader in Social Policy at Sunderland University. For ten years he practised as a qualified social worker in the field of child care. His research interests are child care, gender, anti-oppressive practice and comparative social policy. He has published widely on all these issues. He is author of Men. Masculinities and Social Welfare, 1995, UCL Press an co-editor (with Margit Harder) of Protecting Children in Europe: Towards a new millenium, 1997, Aalborg University Press.

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ISBN 13	9780335197019
ISBN 10	0335197019
Title	Children and Social Welfare in Europe
Author	Pringle
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Open University Press
Year published	1998-04-16
Number of pages	224
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