Globalisation and Human Welfare

Description

This thematically structured text offers an introduction to the positive and negative effects of globalization on human welfare in industrial and developing societies. It documents the effects of globalization on economic growth, income distribution, poverty, education, health, social care and the environment. It pays special attention to the effects of globalization on ethnic and gender issues and concludes with an assessment of the possibilities of global social policy. It should appeal to undergraduates in the social sciences both as a basic text and a reference book.

VIC GEORGE is Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at the University of Kent and has taught at the Universities of Nottingham and Kent. He is an international figure in the field and has given lectures and seminars in USA, Canada, Australia, Hong Kong and many European countries. He has written widely on theoretical and policy issues from national and comparative perspectives and is particularly interested in the areas of poverty, ideology and inequality. - PAUL WILDING is Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at the University of Manchester, and has taught at the University of Nottingham, the University of Wales at Cardiff and the City University of Hon Kong. He is well-known for his work on ideological issues in social welfare, on professional power and welfare states, on general issues in social policy in the UK and on social policy in East Asia. - They are joint of authors of British Society and Social Welfare (Palgrave, 1999) and Welfare and Ideology (Prentice Hall, 1994).

'...a pleasing introduction to the study of 'globalisation' as it relates to social policy and human welfare concerns.' - Nicola Yeats, Queen's University, Belfast, Social Policy