"No large city is complete without a bustling array of culturally diverse businesses. Immigrant entrepreneurship rose dramatically in the last decade of the twentieth century and has, inevitably, had a huge impact on urban life. Not only has immigrant business revitalized dereli…
Social welfare and the social contract -- Paradigms and approaches to social welfare -- Precusors of institutional social welfare -- The politics of race and social welfare in South Africa -- The "poor white problem" : causes, scope and public response -- Institutionalisation of…
Positive Aspects of Animal Welfare
The financial crisis was much more than the result of an excess of risk. It is essential to understand that the same policies that created each subsequent bust are the same ones that have been implemented in the past years, through Quantitative Easing (QE) to allegedly "solve" t…
The financial crisis was much more than the result of an excess of risk. It is essential to understand that the same policies that created each subsequent bust are the same ones that have been implemented in the past years, through Quantitative Easing (QE) to allegedly "solve" t…
This work is concerned with the regulation of family relationships with particular reference to the issue of contact in the many different contexts in which it may arise.
This thesis spans the first half of the 20th Century, charting the progress and challenges of the voluntary hospital system in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. The voluntary hospitals were the key sites of acute medical care for the working-classes from their foundations in the l…
This dissertation contains three papers that increase our understanding of the impacts of public policies, with a special focus on policies geared toward the poor. The first chapter considers the impact of the minimum wage, one of the most pervasive policy in existence today, to…
A case study of seven religious institutions in the Greater Boston Area, this paper attempts to analyze the similarities and differences between religious-based and state-based social service programs beginning by examining the motivations of religious leaders and the influence …
The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) is a federally funded program that provides support and guidelines for meal programs in public and nonprofit schools as well as childcare institutions. The program is currently the nation’s second largest and oldest food assistance progra…
The endangered Arabian oryx, Oryx leucoryx faces a wide range of issues that potentially have adverse effects on their welfare while they are free-ranging in their natural habitat, housed in captivity for conservation breeding or when they are translocated from the wild to capti…
This thematic account of responses from women in mining families, from the Labour Party and from communities, in Durham County, to the 1984-85 miners' strike, firmly separates mythology about the strike, generated both inside and outside the coalfield, from what actually happene…
This thesis is concerned with two discrete but related themes that are of considerable socio-legal significance: South Asian divorce and disputes involving South Asian children. Both themes are explored empirically by means of a qualitative research study conducted in an urban a…
A career as a professional footballer has long been regarded as a highly sought after occupation for many young males within the UK and, against this backdrop, since the 1970s increasing attention has come to be placed on the way young players are identified and developed within…
This thesis considers whether free movement law is sufficient for balancing the interests of Member States with fundamental EU objectives. Free movement law has expanded to allow non-economically active citizens to reside in another Member State; resulting in the possibility of …
As a marker of current austerity policies, the growth of the emergency food aid landscape has become recognisable through the ‘food bank’. These places of charitable food-redistribution have seen their presence increase within an evolving social policy context. Understanding foo…