Social Work and the Making of Social Policy

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4473-4916-7
Verlag: Policy Press

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 395 g

Bringing together international case studies, this book offers theoretical and empirical insights into the interaction between social work and social policy.

Moving beyond existing studies on policy practice, the book employs the policy cycle as a core analytical frame and focuses on the influence of social work(ers) in the problem definition, agenda setting, policy formulation and implementation of social policy. Twenty-three contributors offer examples of policy making from seven different countries and demonstrate how social work practitioners can become political actors, while also encouraging policy makers to become aware of the potential of social work for the social policy-making process.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Klammer, Ute

Leiber, Simone

Leitner, Sigrid

Weitere Mitwirkende

Sowa, Frank

Gottwald, Markus

Polawski, Pawel

Sánchez Castineira, Sergio

Alfandari, Ravit

Evans, Tony

Lavalette, Michael

Moth, Rich

Guidi, Riccardo

Gal, John

Weiss-Gal, Idit

Branco, Francisco

Vivaldi Vera, Paloma

Raciti, Paolo

Assunta Giuliano, Giovannina

D'Emilione, Matteo

Ostrander, Jason

Feely, Megan

Werkmeister Rozas, Lisa

Smith, Roger

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Social Work and the Making of Social Policy ~ Ute Klammer, Simone Leiber and Sigrid Leitner

Part One: Social Work, Problem Definition and Agenda Setting

Social Work as Policy Innovator: Challenges and Possibilities in the UK ~ Roger Smith

Social Work, Problem Definition and Policy Change in the USA: The Case of sex trafficked Youth ~ Lisa Werkmeister Rozas, Megan Feely and Jason Ostrander

Italian Social Workers Voices: from a Pilot Anti-Poverty Intervention to a National Policy ~ Matteo D’Emilione, Giovannina Assunta Giuliano, Paolo Raciti and Paloma Vivaldi Vera

Part Two: Social Work Interests in Policy Formulation and Decision Making

Social Reform in the US: Lessons from the Progressive Era ~ Francisco Branco

Social Work Academia and Social Policy in Israel: On the Role of Social Work Academics in the Policy Process ~ Idit Weiss-Gal and John Gal

Social Workers’ Collective Policy Practice in Times of Austerity. Italy and Spain

compared ~ Riccardo Guidi

Social Policy and Welfare Movements ‘from below’: The Social Work Action Network (SWAN) in the UK ~ Rich Moth and Michael Lavalette

Section Three: Social Work and Implementation

Policy Work and the Ethics of Obedience and Resistance: Perspectives from Britain and beyond ~ Tony Evans

Systemic Barriers to effective Implementation of Child Protection Reform in Israel ~ Ravit Alfandari

Social Workers implementing Social Assistance in Spain: reshaping Poverty in a

familialistic Welfare State ~ Sergio Sánchez Castiñeira

Layering, social Risks and manufactured Uncertainties in Social Work in Poland ~ Pawel Polawski

‘A little more Humanity’: Placement Officers in Germany in-between Social Work and Social Policy ~ Markus Gottwald and Frank Sowa

Conclusion: Social Work and the Making of Social Policy - Lessons learned ~ Ute Klammer, Simone Leiber and Sigrid Leitner

Über Autor(innen)

Leiber, Simone
Simone Leiber is Professor of Social Policy at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Her main research interests are social policy analysis, politics of welfare state reform, and social work as a political actor.

Klammer, Ute
Ute Klammer is Professor and Director of the Institute of Work, Skills and Training at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Her main research interests are social policy, labour market and gender research.

Lavalette, Michael
Michael Lavalette is a Professor in the Department of Social Work, Care and Justice at Liverpool Hope Univeristy. He has published widely on radical social work and contemporary social movements. He is co-editor of Critical and Radical Social Work journal.

Leitner, Sigrid
Sigrid Leitner is Professor for Social Policy at the University of Applied Sciences Cologne. Her main research interests are comparative social policy analysis, gender effects of social policy, and social work as a political actor.

Ute Klammer is a Professor and Director of the Institute of Work, Skills and Training at the University of Duisburg-Essen.

Simone Leiber is a Professor of Social Policy at the University of Duisburg-Essen.

Sigrid Leitner is a Professor for Social Policy at the University of Applied Sciences Cologne.