This book examines the impact of the aftermath of the 2008 economic crisis on social work and welfare systems.
It outlines a new environment of austerity where reduced government commitment to tackling inequality and poverty is accompanied by increasingly punitive approaches to welfare. The authors present perspectives from ten different countries exploring the challenges that individual social workers and the profession more generally faces. The book argues that social work has to maintain and strengthen its commitment to key principles of social justice in the face of an extended period of welfare retrenchment and attacks on the social state.
Prolog
Chapter 1. Dancing with a stranger. Social Work in times of welfare austerity (EMILIO JOSÉ GÓMEZ CIRIANO y ANTONIO LÓPEZ PELÁEZ)
Chapter 2. Social Work and Austerity (IAN CUMMINS)
Chapter 3. Social Workers as «piping engineers» in the Belgian welfare state (WIM VERZELEN, KRISTEL DRIESSENS y JOHAN BOXTAENS)
Chapter 4. The role of social workers in the development of the welfare state in Greece (SOFIA DEDOTSI y ALYS YOUNG)
Chapter 5. Social work and policy practice in Portugal: historical stories and trends in times of austerity (FRANCISCO BRANCO)
Chapter 6. Social work and welfare system in Italy: changes, critical issues, resiliencies (ROBERTA TERESA DI ROSA, SILVANA MORDEGLIA y GABRIELLA ARGENTO)
Chapter 7. Social work in a post crisis environment. The Spanish case (ANTONIO LÓPEZ PELÁEZ y EMILIO JOSÉ GÓMEZ CIRIANO)
Chapter 8. Model for Social Work in Hong Kong (YUK KING LAU)
Chapter 9. A Himalayan Kingdom to Federal Republic: Nepal. Insights in to development of social welfare and social work in a transition country (BALA RAJU NIKKU)
Chapter 10. Sentinel issues in social work in the United States: National context, practice trends, and application to military members (J. HARRISON, B. MOREHOUSE y J. THELEN)
Chapter 11. Chilean Social policies and social work model: embeddedness of cultural and structural dimensions (CAROLINA MUÑOZ-GUZMÁN)
Bibliography
Directores:
Patrick Chaumette es Catedrático de Derecho Privado en la Universidad de Nantes
Olga Fotinopoulou Basurko es Profesora Titular de Derecho del Trabajo y de la Seguridad Social de la Universidad del País Vasco
Coordinador:
Xosé Manuel Carril Vázquez es Profesor de Derecho del Trabajo y de la Segudiad Social de la Universidad de la Coruña
