For the past four years, the social work department at the University of Hull has been working in partnership with colleagues from Austria, France and Germany to develop a European module on comparative social work. Funded by the EU's SOCRATES programme, this has involved the four European sites...

This book offers insights into the development of social welfare policies in Britain. By identifying continuities in welfare policy, practice and thought throughout history, it offers the potential for the development of new thinking, policy making and practice.

"We document a large increase in the cyclicality of the incomes of high-income households, coinciding with the rise in their share of aggregate income. In the U.S., since top income shares began to rise rapidly in the early 1980s, incomes of those in the top 1 percent of the income distribution...