Welfare Words: Critical Social Work & Social Policy - Paperback

by Paul Michael Garrett (Author)

Welfare Words analyses a number of keywords and phrases commonly used by policy-makers, news-outlets and wider society, when referring to social policy, welfare reform and social work in the present-day culture of neoliberal capitalism.

Author Biography

Paul Garrett is the respected author of Remaking Social Work with Children and Families (Routledge, 2003); Social Work with Irish Children and Families in Britain (Policy Press, 2004); ′Transforming′ Children's Services? (Open University/McGraw Hill, 2009); Social Work and Social Theory (Policy Press, 2013, but with a Chinese edition presently being negotiated); Critical and Radical Debates in Social Work: Children and Families (Policy Press, 2014). His work has appeared in international peer reviewed journals across a range of disciplines; approximately 100 hundred articles have been published since 1998.

He have presented papers at a number of international conferences. His next invited 'keynote' is schedule for the international Sociology and Social Work conference in 2015. He is also a member of the editorial boards of Critical Social Policy (SAGE) (where he edits the Reviews section), the European Journal of Social Work (Taylor & Francis) and he is also a Journal of Progressive Human Services (Taylor & Francis)consulting editor for the US-based .