Compassion
A Global History of Social Policy
Compassion traces 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 thei…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-350-30785-8
- EAN: 9781350307858
- Produktnummer: 37686394
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 306 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
Über den Autor
Dr Alvin Finkel is Professor Emeritus of History at Athabasca University, Canada.
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