Includes bibliographical references and index.

Social welfare responses in a neoliberal era : adaptive responses, sustained need, and exacerbated hardships / Cory Blad and Mia Arp Fallov -- Crisis neoliberalism and the social welfare state : structural challenges and policy responses / Ricardo A. Dello Buono -- Searching for saviors : economic adversities and the challenge of political legitimacy in the neoliberal era / Cory Blad -- Welfare regime, neoliberal transformation, and social exclusion in Mexico, 1980-2015 / Lukasz Czarnecki and Delfino Vargas Chanes -- Protest and the politics of unemployment insurance : reforming welfare states in times of austerity / Rossella Ciccia and Cesar Guzman-Concha -- We need to focus on the resources : struggling with neoliberal economic rationales in social work with children and families / Maria Appel Nissen -- Collective action, collective impact and community foundations : the emerging role of local institution building in an era of globalization and declining social safety nets / Frank Ridzi -- Social work in and around the home: using home as a site to promote inclusion / Mia Arp Fallov and Maria Appel Nissen -- Potentiality, development ideals, and realities of social work / Pia Ringo -- Youth experiencing poverty in a neoliberal canadian context : understanding systems access from the experiences of young people and frontline staff / Naomi Nichols and Jayne Malenfant -- Youth responses to neoliberal erosion of solidarity / Vibeke Bak Nielsen -- Social welfare responses and professional resilience in a (post) neoliberal era (or how to understand the dangers and potentials of today) / Mia Arp Fallov and Cory Blad.

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