A book on the need to do economy in a caring way in the global crisis. In this situation, doing care and doing economy are mutually dependent. The context that is described is a multifaceted and complex one. It concerns social care, state action and the responsibility of companies. All actors are involved in caring and managing within an ecological framework for a development that is beneficial to life both locally and globally.

In the world, the home and the state prove themselves and change as basic institutions of human coexistence. They are the subject of a comparative study on an ecotheoretical basis. In the global context, the modes of social control have developed differently in the home and the state. In and with them, order is created in the world and for the individual and collective conduct of life. The institutional frameworks of house and state in the world are ways of shaping existence that are juxtaposed in their European-Occidental and East Asian forms: Their discussion takes place along the ancient Greek basic concepts and forms of thought of the oikos, the polis and the cosmos on the one hand and the ancient Chinese categories jia, guo and tianxia on the other. They are discussed with their ethical, political and economic references in their traditional and contemporary meaning and with regard to their ecological sustainability. The interest in a discursive understanding of sustainable, life-serving orders in the face of global challenges is the guiding principle

This book offers an ecological foundation for social work and for care provision in general. It presents the ecosocial approach according to its origins, distinguishing it from other theoretical social work approaches and applying it to various areas of care for welfare. The ecological anchoring of social welfare and common care is an emerging topic in political, organisational, and person-related development of human services and social work. In an era of crisis, this anchoring is an essential contribution to the study of sustainable social provision. The book embeds the dispositions about it in the ecology of the protection and securing of common life. Ecology of Common Care: The Ecosocial Approach as a Theory of Social Work and Human Service is an essential text that should engage the academic community of educators and researchers in social work and other human services professions, as well as students in bachelor's and master's programmes in these professions.

In einer verdichteten Darstellung wird die Entwicklung sozialer Betatigung und ihrer Professionalisierung beschrieben - von den Gesellschaften der Aufklarung uber soziale Bewegungen und Antworten international auf die soziale Frage in oeffentlicher und freier Armenpflege und die Entfaltung von social work hin zu seinen Auspragungen im Wohlfahrtsstaat unter Bedingungen des sozialen und globalen Wandels.

Das Grundlagenwerk bietet eine umfassende und fundierte Darstellung der Entwicklung sozialer Betatigung - in diesem Band von der Aufklarung bis zum Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts und den Anfangen der beruflichen Sozialarbeit. Beschrieben werden gesellschaftliche Bewegungen, Denken, Politik und Praxis in Beantwortung der sozialen Frage: Wie sind Armut und Elend, Ungerechtigkeit und Benachteiligung in den Umbruchen der Zeit zu bewaltigen? Mit der Beschreibung der Genese, der Regelung und der Organisation von Abhilfen wird die Evolution Sozialer Arbeit in den historischen Zusammenhang der gesellschaftlichen Entwicklung eingeordnet.

Dieses essential enthalt eine kurze und pragnante Darstellung der Theorie sozialen Wirtschaftens. Es erhellt den Handlungsbereich der personenbezogenen Wohlfahrtsproduktion im sozialen Versorgungssystem und im organisierten Zusammenwirken professioneller, frei engagierter und selbstbetroffener Akteure. In der Sozialwirtschaftslehre wird die Erbringung sozialer und gesundheitsbezogener Leistungen institutionell und funktional begriffen.