Radical Help: How we can remake the relationships between us and revolutionise the welfare state - Couverture rigide

Cottam, Hilary

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0349009074 ISBN 13 : 9780349009070

Editeur : Virago, 2018

Synopsis

How should we live: how should we care for one another; grow our capabilities to work, to learn, to love and fully realise our potential? This exciting and ambitious book shows how we can re-design the welfare state for this century.

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À propos de l?auteur

Hilary is an internationally acclaimed British social entrepreneur, recognised by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader and named UK Designer of the Year in 2005. In 2006 Hilary founded Participle (www.participle.net) to design working exemplars of a new welfare state. Before her UK work she spent twelve years in Africa and Latin America, latterly as an urban poverty specialist at the World Bank in Washington DC. Her TED Talk: Social Services are Broken: How Can We Fix Them has had over half a million views. She lives in London.

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'Through real-life human stories, told with great empathy, Radical Help both reveals what's going wrong in so much of our society - and how it can be put right. By turns, it will have you moved to tears - and cheering with hope' Jonathan Freedland

'Fascinating . . . shows how to put humans and the digital together to create credible and exciting solutions' Martha Lane Fox

'One of the rare books capable of making an impact on society. It's the most exciting thing I've read in years' Frederic Laloux, Reinventing Organisations

'A timely thought-provoking read. Cottam's track record in changing lives makes her worth listening to' Camilla Cavendish

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One of the most important things in life is our relationships: they can enhance and change our lives.

This engaging and visionary book shows us that this fact is as true in state systems as it is in intimate interactions: only when we have systems that enable and foster human connection will we rise to the challenges that face us in the 21st century.

Hilary Cottam is one of our foremost social thinkers and actors and she has a radical approach. Starting in the lives and homes of those who face every day struggles - teenage depression, poor health, a lack of good work or a lonely old age - she asks people what they would do, with help and collaboration, to design a better way forward.

We can recover the original and powerful intention behind the welfare state with Cottam's six simple ideas offered here: crucial shifts in the way we can think about welfare. At the heart of these new systems are human relationships - the simple bonds with one another that enable us all to flourish.

Radical Help cuts to the very essence of how we should live today.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Virago
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0349009074
• ISBN 13: 9780349009070
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible