Understanding Global Social Policy

Contents: 1. The idea of global social policy/Nicola Yeates. 2. Global and regional social governance/Bob Deacon. 3. The global transfer of social policy/Rob Hulme and Moira Hulme. 4. Business and global social policy formation/Kevin Farnswoerth. 5. International trade and welfare/Chris Holden. 6. Global labour policy/Robert O\'Brien. 7. Global health policy/Meri Koivusalo and Eeva Ollila. 8. Global housing and urban policy/Sunil Kumar. 9. Global pensions policy/Mitchell A. Orenstein. 10. Global migration policy/Nicola Yeates. 11. Global population policy/Sarah Sexton, Larry Lohmann and Nicholas Hildyard. 12. Conclusion/Nicola Yeates. Appendix. Index.

"Nicola Yeates has brought together an impressive, coherent collection of contributors providing comprehensive coverage of developments in global social policy across a wide range of policy areas. The relationship between globalisation and social policy is one that is rapidly evolving and differentiated. This collection successfully captures these dynamics while at the same time providing empirical substance to developments at a particular point in time.

As a field of study, global social policy has grown in strength and remit since the late 1990s and offers a fresh-set of perspectives on contemporary debates within social policy. This book is the first student-aimed textbook that engages comprehensively with this field of study, examining the key theoretical and policy debates and issues. Written by an international team of leading social policy analysts, it examines the impact of the prefix global on the construction of social policy as a field of study, explores how the globalising strategies of state and non-state actors intersect with social policy concerns and evaluates their impacts on social welfare.

Understanding global social policy:

• Emphasises  the role of supranational organisations and international actors in social policy formation.
• Highlights the \'bottom-up\' transnational pressures and forces as well as the \'top-down\' ones associated with intergovernmental flora and organisation.
• Historicises current development and debates in global social policy.
• Focuses on policy processes, content and impacts.   

Designed with the needs of students in mind the book will be invaluable to undergraduate and postgraduate students of social policy, sociology, health studies and development studies."