Work and the Welfare State places street-level organizations at the analytic center of welfare-state politics, policy, and management. This volume offers a critical examination of efforts to change the welfare state to a workfare state by looking at on-the-ground issues in six countries: the US, UK, Australia, Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands.An international group of scholars contribute organizational studies that shed new light on old debates about policies of workfare and a...

What if you had the recipe for an easy life that was custom-made for you?We've been told over and over again that in order to have a life of abundance, we have to hustle and grind. Work worth doing should be hard, right? Wrong!If you're tired of feeling burnt out, maybe it's time to do something different. It Gets To Be Easy (If You Let It) teaches you how to create your own recipe for a life filled with purpose, authenticity, and ease. Author Juli...

This textbook covers topics in sport and exercise psychology for students of psychology and sport science, as well as for sport practitioners who want to understand topics in sport psychology in more detail and depth.The book is divided into two main parts: Theory and Application. The first part covers the theoretical facets of sport and exercise psychology, and the close link between theory and practice, divided into the sub-disciplines of psychology (cognition, motivation, emotio...