El objetivo esencial de esta investigación es aportar los fundamentos de Derecho para el desarrollo y perfeccionamiento de las políticas sociales y laborales europeas, estatales, autonómicas y locales en dichas materias de carácter socio-económico y laboral que ostentan una especial trascendencia para los poderes públicos y agentes sociales, atendiendo a las personas que potencialmente pueden ser beneficiarias de la finalidad de este estudio.

La problemática y el análisis de la exclusión social constituyen una de las principales preocupaciones y retos actuales y, a la vez, una de las principales cuestiones que aborda la Unión Europea, dentro de la denominada “Estrategia Europa 2020”. La trascedencia y relieve de este tema hacen que esté presente en las agendas nacionales e internacionales de los principales actores institucionales y políticos, debido a las repercusiones que la exclusión social tiene sobre todo Estado que persiga, como meta y orientación, su cualificación como Estado social y democrático.La monografía que el lector tiene ahora en sus manos, cuenta con un especial atractivo e interés, por las aportaciones que recoge de los dos autores, que reflexionaron sobre esta cuestión en el marco del I Congreso Internacional sobre la exclusión social: situación actual desde el Derecho Comparado, que ha servido como foro de debate sobre las causas de la exclusión social, de los colectivos más vulnerables, y de las medidas jurídico-laborales de prevención y de solución de la exclusión social, tanto en el ámbito español estatal y autonómico, como en el europeo e iberoamericano.La presente obra colectiva se centra en el análisis interdisciplinar, llevado a cabo por expertos laboralistas y constitucionalistas, tanto españoles como foráneos, de las medidas jurídico-laborales contra la exclusión social en el marco del Estado social y democrático de Derecho. La monografía que ahora ve la luz constituye una publicación de extraordinaria utilidad y absoluta actualidad para los profesionales y estudiosos de esta materia.

This groundbreaking first volume of the Series has a number of features that set it apart from other books on this subject: Firstly, it focuses on interpersonal, humanistic and ecological views and approaches to P/MH nursing. Secondly, it highlights patient/client-centered approaches and mental-health-service user involvement. Lastly, it is a genuinely European P/MH nursing textbook – the first of its kind – largely written by mental health scholars from Europe, although it also includes contributions from North America and Australia/New Zealand. Focusing on clinical/practical issues, theory and empirical findings, it adopts an evidence-based or evidence-informed approach. Each contribution presents the state-of-the-art of P/MH nursing in Europe so that it can be transferred to and implemented by P/MH nurses and the broader mental health care community around the globe. As such, it will be the first genuinely 21st century European Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing book.

“The fourth sector” is a relatively new sector that consists of for-benefit organizations that combine market-based approaches of the private sector with the social and environmental aims of the public and non-profit sectors. This book examines trends of entrepreneurship in the fourth sector, describes specific ecosystems fostering new ventures around the world, and characterizes the most common and innovative business models. It covers as well the main effects, among others, of technological change, innovation, and institutional behavior on the sector in the last years.

Today’s best companies get it. From Costco® to Commerce Bank, Wegmans to Whole Foods®: they’re becoming the ultimate value creators. They’re generating every form of value that matters: emotional, experiential, social, and financial. And they’re doing it for all their stakeholders. Not because it’s “politically correct”: because it’s the only path to long-term competitive advantage. These are the Firms of Endearment. Companies people love doing business with. Love partnering with. Love working for. Love investing in. Companies for whom “loyalty” isn’t just real: it’s palpable, and driving unbeatable advantages in everything from marketing to recruitment. You need to become one of those companies. This book will show you how. You’ll find specific, practical guidance on transforming every relationship you have: with customers, associates, partners, investors, and society. If you want to be great—truly great—this is your blueprint. We’re entering an Age of Transcendence, as people increasingly search for higher meaning in their lives, not just more possessions. This is transforming the marketplace, the workplace, the very soul of capitalism. Increasingly, today’s most successful companies are bringing love, joy, authenticity, empathy, and soulfulness into their businesses: they are delivering emotional, experiential, and social value–not just profits. Firms of Endearment illuminates this, the most fundamental transformation in capitalism since Adam Smith. It’s not about “corporate social responsibility”: it’s about building companies that can sustain success in a radically new era. It’s about great companies like IDEO and IKEA®, Commerce Bank and Costco®, Wegmans and Whole Foods®: how they earn the powerful loyalty and affection that enables truly breathtaking performance. This book is about gaining “share of heart,” not just share of wallet. It’s about aligning stakeholders’ interests, not just juggling them. It’s about building companies that leave the world a better place. Most of all, it’s about why you must do all this, or risk being left in the dust... and how to get there from wherever you are now.

Cities of Tomorrow is a critical history of planning in theory and practice in the twentieth century, as well as of the social and economic problems and opportunities that gave rise to it. Trenchant, perceptive, global in coverage, this book is an unrivalled account of its crucial subject. The third edition of Cities of Tomorrow is comprehensively revised to take account of abundant new literature published since its original appearance, and to view the 1990s in historical perspective. This is the definitive edition, reviewing the development of the modern planning movement over the entire span of the twentieth century.

This report examines how the two global mega-trends of population ageing and rising inequalities have been developing and interacting, both within and across generations.