The West is currently in the grip of a perfect storm: a lingering economic recession, a global refugee crisis, declining faith in multiculturalism, and the rise of populist anti-immigration parties. These developments seem to confirm the widely held view that hardship and poverty lead to social...

Government’s use of voluntary organisations to deliver services, especially through the mechanisms of contracting and the welfare market, have raised concerns about the impact of government funding on the autonomy and special characteristics of voluntary organisations. This study investigates...

LIFE is a dedicated EU financial instrument for the environment. Therefore job creation and the development of skills have not been its main objectives. Nevertheless, as this publication illustrates, the programme has played its part in creating permanent jobs and training schemes that have...

LIFE is a dedicated EU financial instrument for the environment. Therefore job creation and the development of skills have not been its main objectives. Nevertheless, as this publication illustrates, the programme has played its part in creating permanent jobs and training schemes that have...

Despite a renewed interest in processes which help organizations to harness social capital, it is apparent that practical efforts to achieve this rarely focus on employees who are members of low status groups. In large part this is because such employees tend to be skeptical of, and to resist,...