Listening to the Welfare State (Welfare and Society)

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Synopsis
Listening to the Welfare State presents, for the first time in English, central research findings from recent studies of the welfare systems of Denmark, Norway, Finland and Sweden. The book’s contributors are leading investigators of face-to-face encounters between welfare professionals and clients in these systems. All have collected their data through ethnographic observations as well as taped recordings of these meetings. By subjecting their data to conversation and discourse analyses, these researchers provide a richly detailed empirical picture of the various forms of talk-at-work constituting the core activity of a variety of street-level bureaucracies. Their findings provide a well-rounded body of knowledge about what happens when professionals meet persons seeking financial assistance, child protection, employment, vocational counselling, treatment, rehabilitation and related services. Essential reading for both professional and students, this book will provide a wealth of insights into and understandings of, the micro-level workings of welfare state systems.
Copyright:
2001

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
308 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781351922159
Related ISBNs:
9780754615651, 9781315250472, 9781138263833
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Michael Seltzer, Christian Kullberg, Søren Peter Olesen and Ilmari Rostila
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Politics and Government, Sociology
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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