103 books
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87 voters
Social Welfare Books
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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-welfare)
avg rating 4.28 — 55,712 ratings — published 2008
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-welfare)
avg rating 4.35 — 63,799 ratings — published 2020
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-welfare)
avg rating 4.11 — 7,302 ratings — published 2019
The Social Worker As Manager: A Practical Guide to Success (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-welfare)
avg rating 3.11 — 38 ratings — published 1997
The Road Not Taken (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-welfare)
avg rating 3.86 — 69 ratings — published 2001
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 117,189 ratings — published 2012
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 114,737 ratings — published 2016
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 188,198 ratings — published 2016
Social Revolution: Politics and the Welfare State in Iran (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-welfare)
avg rating 3.80 — 30 ratings — published
Unfaithful Angels: How Social Work Has Abandoned its Mission (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-welfare)
avg rating 3.44 — 179 ratings — published 1993
Street-Level Bureaucracy: The Dilemmas of the Individual in Public Service (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-welfare)
avg rating 3.85 — 320 ratings — published 1980
The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 353 ratings — published 1989
The Welfare State: A Reader (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.68 — 41 ratings — published 1999
Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-welfare)
avg rating 4.26 — 23,525 ratings — published 2011
Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-welfare)
avg rating 4.20 — 36,621 ratings — published 2023
You Went to Emergency for What?: Bizarre, bloody and baffling true stories from the hospital ED (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 1 time as social-welfare)
avg rating 3.46 — 382 ratings — published 2025
The Social Work Dictionary, 5th Edition (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as social-welfare)
avg rating 4.22 — 112 ratings — published 1991
No Silly Questions: The Daily Aus explains how the world works (and why you should care)
by (shelved 1 time as social-welfare)
avg rating 4.15 — 379 ratings — published
A Long Goodbye to Bismarck?: The Politics of Welfare Reform in Continental Europe (Changing Welfare States)
by (shelved 1 time as social-welfare)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 2010
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-welfare)
avg rating 3.93 — 112,111 ratings — published 2017
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-welfare)
avg rating 4.14 — 105,708 ratings — published 2025
Small Things Like These (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 456,316 ratings — published 2021
Firekeeper’s Daughter (Firekeeper's Daughter, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as social-welfare)
avg rating 4.31 — 203,808 ratings — published 2021
Girl Friday: An Extraordinarily Ordinary Working Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.38 — 91 ratings — published
The Evolution of Modern States: Sweden, Japan, and the United States (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
by (shelved 1 time as social-welfare)
avg rating 3.97 — 33 ratings — published 2010
The Granddaughter (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 9,601 ratings — published 2021
Bloomberg's New York: Class and Governance in the Luxury City (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.55 — 38 ratings — published 2011
The New Structural Social Work: Ideology, Theory, Practice (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as social-welfare)
avg rating 3.78 — 69 ratings — published 2006
Easy Meat: Inside Britain's Grooming Gang Scandal (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as social-welfare)
avg rating 4.10 — 89 ratings — published 2016
The New Aging: Politics and Change in America (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Western capitalism in transition: Global processes, local challenges (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Social Work: A Profession of Many Faces (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-welfare)
avg rating 3.92 — 24 ratings — published 1977
Shuggie Bain (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 193,355 ratings — published 2020
The Triple Bind of Single-Parent Families: Resources, Employment and Policies to Improve Wellbeing (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published
Sincerely, Your Autistic Child (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 2,051 ratings — published 2021
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.28 — 17,962 ratings — published 2015
The Welfare State: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as social-welfare)
avg rating 3.90 — 144 ratings — published 2016
Uniquely Human: A Different Way of Seeing Autism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-welfare)
avg rating 4.46 — 7,242 ratings — published 2015
Social Welfare in Canada, 4th Edition: Inclusion, Equity, and Social Justice (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as social-welfare)
avg rating 3.03 — 30 ratings — published 2002
Babel (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 483,647 ratings — published 2022
Obsession: A journalist and victim-survivor’s investigation into stalking (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.02 — 375 ratings — published
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-welfare)
avg rating 3.91 — 325,577 ratings — published 2023
Radical Inequalities: China's Revolutionary Welfare State in Comparative Perspective (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
by (shelved 1 time as social-welfare)
avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published 2015
The Welfare State in East Asia (Elements in Politics and Society in East Asia)
by (shelved 1 time as social-welfare)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
The Inner Level: How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone's Well-Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-welfare)
avg rating 4.18 — 661 ratings — published 2018
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-welfare)
avg rating 4.34 — 44,018 ratings — published 2019
Differently Wired: Raising an Exceptional Child in a Conventional World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 1,579 ratings — published 2018
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 60,838 ratings — published 2022
Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.59 — 14,032 ratings — published 2023
Hype: How Scammers, Grifters, and Con Artists Are Taking Over the Internet—and Why We're Following (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.32 — 1,228 ratings — published 2021
“...by the time Malcolm Fraser came to power, neoliberals working for Treasury quietly redefined 'full employment' to mean a rate of just 95 per cent employment at any time. Unsurprisingly, it's a habit of neoliberal governments to make the experience of unemployment as punitive and humiliating as possible, to discourage people from risking it.”
― On Fairness
― On Fairness
“What people do with their money is not a private affair, each penny above necessity belongs to social welfare.”
― Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth
― Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth
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