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The third edition of this leading textbook offers a contemporary, lively and accessible overview of international actors and social policy formation, identifying key issues, debates and priorities for action in social policy across the Global South and North.

With a contemporary overview of global social policy formation, the third edition of this leading textbook identifies key issues, debates and priorities for action in social policy across the Global South and North. Accessible and lively, it incorporates seven new chapters covering theory, social justice, climate, migration, gender, young people and water, energy and food. The original chapters have also been fully updated to reflect major developments in the fast-changing world of global social policy. Key features include:•overview and summary boxes to bookend each chapter;•questions for discussion and follow-up activities; •further reading and resources.Exploring what it means to locate human welfare within a global framework of social policy analysis and action, this textbook offers a perfect guide for curious students.

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This is an excellent introductory book. It offers a comprehensive overview of global social policy issues and new chapters provide important insights into the scope of global social policy today. Ito Peng, Centre for Global Social Policy, University of Toronto COVID-19 has underlined why we must think globally about social policies. This clear and accessible volume illuminates core concepts and issues, providing an essential reference for students and practitioners. Sarah Cook, Inaugural Director, Institute for Global Development, UNSW (University of New South Wales) and former Director, UNRISD, Geneva and UNICEFs Innocenti Office of Research, Florence Breath-taking in its coverage of global social policy issues, this volume brings analytical rigour, conceptual clarity and a refreshing political economy perspective to the challenges of pursuing global justice in an increasingly unequal world. Shahra Razavi, Director of Social Protection Department, International Labour Organization









This is a valuable book which supports students with perspectives other than from the UK. Carl Bridges, University of Derby









This book offers profound theoretical, conceptual and practical insights on global social policy. Obasesam Okoi, University of St. Thomas

1 Introducing global social policy
1(24)
Overview
1(1)
Introduction
1(1)
Globalisation, social science and social policy
2(4)
Global social policy as a field of academic study and analysis
6(6)
Global social policy as a political practice
12(2)
Outline of the chapters
14(2)
Conclusion
16(1)
Using this book
17(1)
Summary
18(1)
Questions for discussion
18(1)
Further resources
18(1)
References
18(7)
2 Global and regional social governance
25(22)
Overview
25(1)
Introduction
25(1)
Conceptualising global social governance
26(2)
Introduction to intergovernmental organisations
28(5)
Comparing intergovernmental organisations: the World Health Organization and the World Bank
33(3)
World-regional social governance and policy
36(3)
The future of global social governance
39(3)
Conclusion
42(1)
Note
42(1)
Summary
42(1)
Questions for discussion
43(1)
Follow-up activities
43(1)
Further resources
43(1)
References
43(4)
3 International trade, global economic governance and welfare
47(20)
Overview
47(1)
Introduction
47(1)
Economics, trade and welfare
48(2)
The development of the international trading system
50(3)
Global institutions and policy processes
53(4)
The welfare state and trade
57(5)
Conclusion
62(1)
Summary
62(1)
Questions for discussion
63(1)
Follow-up activities
63(1)
Further resources
63(1)
References
63(4)
4 Business, labour and global social policy
67(22)
Overview
67(1)
Introduction
67(1)
Business and labour power and representation
68(3)
Competing interests and competing perspectives on welfare
71(5)
Labour standards, corporate regulation and taxation
76(4)
Global governance and social welfare
80(3)
Conclusion
83(1)
Summary
84(1)
Questions for discussion
84(1)
Follow-up activities
84(1)
Further resources
85(1)
References
85(4)
5 Theorising global social policy
89(22)
Overview
89(1)
Introduction
89(2)
Globalising theories of national welfare state development
91(5)
`Welfarising' globalist social theories
96(7)
Conclusion
103(2)
Summary
105(1)
Questions for discussion
105(1)
Follow-up activities
105(1)
Further resources
106(1)
References
106(5)
6 Global social justice
111(24)
Overview
111(1)
Introduction
111(2)
Globalising social justice
113(7)
Global justice, obligations and rights
120(3)
Achieving global justice in the absence of a world-state
123(5)
Conclusion
128(1)
Summary
128(1)
Questions for discussion
129(1)
Follow-up activities
129(1)
Further resources
129(1)
References
129(6)
7 Global climate justice
135(24)
Overview
135(1)
Introduction
135(2)
Climate science and climate change
137(3)
Climate change and justice
140(1)
Issues of distributional injustice at the global scale
141(3)
Justice in decision-making? The development of a global climate policy
144(4)
Justice in policy implementation
148(3)
Conclusion
151(1)
Summary
152(1)
Questions for discussion
153(1)
Follow-up activities
153(1)
Further resources
153(1)
References
154(5)
8 Global poverty and inequality
159(26)
Overview
159(1)
Introduction
159(1)
Measuring global poverty
160(9)
The politics of global poverty
169(2)
Measuring global inequality
171(5)
The politics of global inequality
176(3)
Conclusion
179(1)
Summary
179(1)
Questions for discussion
180(1)
Follow-up activities
180(1)
Further resources
180(1)
References
180(5)
9 Global migrations and global social policy
185(22)
Overview
185(1)
Introduction
185(1)
Globalisations, migrations and social development
186(4)
Global migration governance
190(4)
Global social policy on migration
194(5)
Global social welfare by migrants
199(1)
Conclusion
200(1)
Summary
201(1)
Questions for discussion
201(1)
Follow-up activities
202(1)
Further resources
202(1)
References
202(5)
10 Gender and global social policy
207(22)
Overview
207(1)
Introduction
207(1)
Making gender visible: the global institutional architecture
208(4)
Gendering global labour policy
212(3)
Unpaid domestic work: recognise, reduce and redistribute
215(4)
Sexual and reproductive health and rights: contested terrain
219(4)
Conclusion
223(1)
Summary
224(1)
Questions for discussion
224(1)
Follow-up activities
224(1)
Further resources
225(1)
References
225(4)
11 Young people and global social policy
229(24)
Overview
229(1)
Introduction
229(1)
Young people and social policy: definitions and distinctions
230(2)
A very brief history of the global institutional architecture of youth policy
232(4)
Young people's `transitions': the global reach of a concept and a discourse
236(4)
Global social policy and youth unemployment
240(5)
Conclusion
245(1)
Summary
246(1)
Questions for discussion
247(1)
Follow-up activities
247(1)
Further resources
247(1)
References
247(6)
12 Global social policy at the nexus of water, energy and food
253(22)
Overview
253(1)
Introduction
253(2)
The unmet promise of sustainable development
255(5)
Global risks to water, energy and food
260(3)
Resilience and the water-energy-food nexus
263(4)
The Sustainable Development Goals and the water-energy-food nexus
267(2)
Conclusion
269(1)
Summary
270(1)
Questions for discussion
270(1)
Follow-up activities
271(1)
Further resources
271(1)
References
271(4)
13 Global health policy
275(22)
Overview
275(1)
Introduction
275(3)
Global health issues require global health policy
278(1)
Global health governance and global health policy
279(5)
Financing of global health
284(1)
Global health policy space and policies for health
285(1)
Global health policy agendas and debates
286(5)
Conclusion
291(1)
Summary
291(1)
Questions for discussion
292(1)
Follow-up activities
292(1)
Further resources
292(1)
References
292(5)
14 Global education policy
297(22)
Overview
297(1)
Introduction
297(1)
From national education systems to global (post-national) learning regimes
298(1)
Globalisation of education through `development'
299(3)
The OECD's Programme of International Student Assessment
302(4)
Globalising public-private partnerships in education
306(3)
International trade in education services
309(2)
Conclusion
311(1)
Summary
312(1)
Questions for discussion
313(1)
Follow-up activities
313(1)
Further resources
313(1)
References
314(5)
15 Global social security policy
319
Overview
319(1)
Introduction
319(1)
What is social security? Four normative models
320(2)
The worldwide rise of social security
322(7)
The emergence of social security as a global social policy field (since the 1990s)
329(2)
How do international organisations influence domestic policies?
331(4)
Key issues and points of contestation
335(1)
Conclusion
336(3)
Summary
339(1)
Questions for discussion
339(1)
Follow-up activities
340(1)
Further resources
340(1)
References
341
Nicola Yeates is Professor of Social Policy in the Department of Social Policy and Criminology at The Open University.









Chris Holden is Reader in International Social Policy in the Department of Social Policy and Social Work at the University of York.