Understanding Global Social Policy

With a contemporary overview of global social policy formation, the third edition of this leading textbook identifies key issues, debates and priorities for action in social policy across the Global South and North.

Accessible and lively, it incorporates seven new chapters covering theory, social justice, climate, migration, gender, young people and water, energy and food. The original chapters have also been fully updated to reflect major developments in the fast-changing world of global social policy. Key features include:

overview and summary boxes to bookend each chapter;

questions for discussion and follow-up activities;

further reading and resources.

Exploring what it means to locate human welfare within a global framework of social policy analysis and action, this textbook offers a perfect guide for curious students.

Nicola Yeates is Professor of Social Policy in the Department of Social Policy and Criminology at The Open University.

Chris Holden is Reader in International Social Policy in the Department of Social Policy and Social Work at the University of York.

1. Introducing Global Social Policy - Nicola Yeates and Chris Holden

Part 1: Institutions, Actors and Theories

2. Global and Regional Social Governance - Sophie MacKinder, Nicola Yeates and Chris Holden

3. International Trade, Global Economic Governance and Welfare - Chris Holden

4. Business, Labour and Global Social Policy - Kevin Farnsworth and Robert OBrien

5. Theorising Global Social Policy - Nicola Yeates and Chris Holden

6. Global Social Justice - Theo Papaioannou

Part 2: Cross-Cutting Policy Fields and Issues

7. Global Climate Justice - Carolyn Snell

8. Global Poverty and Inequality - Chris Holden

9. Global Migrations and Global Social Policy - Nicola Yeates and Nicola Piper

10. Gender and Global Social Policy - Rianne Mahon

11. Young People and Global Social Policy - Ross Fergusson

Part 3: Global Social Policy Domains

12. Global Social Policy at the Nexus of Water, Energy and Food - Jeremy J. Schmidt

13. Global Health Policy - Meri Koivusalo and Eeva Ollila

14. Global Education Policy - Susan Robertson and Roger Dale

15. Global Social Security Policy - Lutz Leisering