Stepney, Paul. <br/><br/>
Social work and the community :  a critical context for practice / 
Keith Popple and Paul Stepney. 
 - Basingstoke :  Palgrave Macmillan,  c2008. 
 - x, 201 p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/> Formerly CIP. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction to the idea of community -- The contribution of community studies and increased state intervention in communities and neighbourhoods -- Rethinking community : globalisation, neo-liberalism and inequality -- Community as an area of social policy -- Community as an organising focus for social policy -- Community care : promoting an empowering service or using the market to contain costs? -- Remaking community : communitarianism and the modernisation of the welfare state -- Social work and the community : from theory to practice -- The theory and practice of community of social work -- Community work and community action -- Future possibilities for community-based social work in an international context. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781403991263 (pbk.) :  £19.99 140399126X (pbk.) :  £19.99 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2008016301 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA815725  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Social service--Great Britain.<br/>Community organization--Great Britain.