Compassion
A Global History of Social Policy
- Publisher
- Red Globe Press
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2018
- Category
- General, General
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781352003093
- Publish Date
- Oct 2018
- List Price
- $189.95
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781352003062
- Publish Date
- Oct 2018
- List Price
- $59.95
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Description
Compassiontraces the ways in which various societies across the globe have responded to the vulnerable among them from early human history to the present. Along the way, Alvin Finkel assesses the impacts of economic developments, colonialism, political arrangements, gender, race, and social class in influencing how different peoples have defined the rights of individuals and communities facing hardship. From Russia to Iran, from Scandinavia to Vietnam, this book looks at how social policy has been shaped by global social forces such as capitalism, imperialism and neoliberalism and analyses why different countries and regions diverged in their ways of dealing with inequalities and social needs. This is a valuable resource for students on history, sociology or social work degrees taking modules or courses on the history of welfare/social policy or global history.
About the author
ALVIN FINKEL is a founding member of the Alberta Labour History Institute, an emeritus professor of History at Athabasca University where he taught for 36 years and the past president of the Canadian Committee on Labour History.
He was the book review editor for the journal Labour/Le Travail for 11 years and is still a member of that journal’s editorial board. A prolific author, Alvin’s 13 books have sold over 150,000 copies. They include textbooks on Canadian history and the history of social policy as well as labour history and the history of the events leading to World War II. On the latter topic, he co-wrote The Chamberlain-Hitler Collusion with Clement Leibovitz (Lorimer 2011). He lives in Edmonton Alberta.
Other titles by
Humans: The 300,000-Year Struggle for Equality
The Frontier of Patriotism
Alberta and the First World War
Our Lives
Canada after 1945
Working People in Alberta
A History
The Chamberlain-Hitler Collusion
The The West and Beyond
New Perspectives on an Imagined Region
The West and Beyond
New Perspectives on an Imagined Region
Social Policy and Practice in Canada
A History
Our Lives: Canada after 1945
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