Author Description

Social welfare responses in a neoliberal era: adaptive responses, sustained need, and exacerbated hardships / Cory Blad and Mia Arp Fallov -- Crisis neoliberalism and the social welfare state: structural challenges and policy responses / Ricardo A. Dello Buono -- Searching for saviors: economic adversities and the challenge of political legitimacy in the neoliberal era / Cory Blad -- Welfare regime, neoliberal transformation, and social exclusion in Mexico, 1980-2015 / Lukasz Czarnecki and Delfino Vargas Chanes -- Protest and the politics of unemployment insurance: reforming welfare states in times of austerity / Rossella Ciccia and Cesar Guzman-Concha -- We need to focus on the resources: struggling with neoliberal economic rationales in social work with children and families / Maria Appel Nissen -- Collective action, collective impact and community foundations: the emerging role of local institution building in an era of globalization and declining social safety nets / Frank Ridzi -- Social work in and around the home: using home as a site to promote inclusion / Mia Arp Fallov and Maria Appel Nissen -- Potentiality, development ideals, and realities of social work / Pia Ringo -- Youth experiencing poverty in a neoliberal canadian context: understanding systems access from the experiences of young people and frontline staff / Naomi Nichols and Jayne Malenfant -- Youth responses to neoliberal erosion of solidarity / Vibeke Bak Nielsen -- Social welfare responses and professional resilience in a (post) neoliberal era (or how to understand the dangers and potentials of today) / Mia Arp Fallov and Cory Blad -- References -- Index.