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

Cottam, Hilary

 
9780349009094: Radical Help: How we can remake the relationships between us and revolutionise the welfare state

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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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Hilary Cottam is an internationally acclaimed social activist whose work in Britain and with communities around the world has focused on collaborative and affordable solutions to some of the greatest social challenges of our time. Her first book Radical Help was hailed as 'mind-shifting' by David Brooks in the New York Times and has been translated internationally. Awarded an OBE in 2019 for services to the welfare state, Hilary has been recognised by Fast Company in the US for her pioneering creativity and by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader. Hilary's TED talk has had close to a million views. www.hilarycottam.com

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'The most important book I have read in the last decade. A must read for everyone who believes that we can make a measurable and lasting difference in the lives of our fellow human beings, even those who may seem hardest to help'
Anne-Marie Slaughter, Former Director of Policy and Planning for the US State Department and CEO of New America


'Cottam's ideas could transform the way we all live. She is onto something exciting in her insistence on the potential of both relationships and new technology to sustain long-term human prospering'
Melissa Benn, New Statesman.

'One of my very top reads. If you care about the future of the welfare state and the role of human relationships, I deeply recommend it. Set in the UK, relevant everywhere'
Kate Raworth, author of Doughnut Economics

'One of the principles behind great design is to be radical. In this indispensable volume Cottam explains the approach she has pioneered - Social Design'
Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator MoMA

'In the great tradition of British social innovation - from Robert Owen to William Morris - Cottam's optimistic vision shows how we could reinvent the welfare state. Not a utopia but a real promise'
Nicolas Colin, Le Monde

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