Mia Arp Fallov, Ph.D. in Sociology, is Associate Professor of Social Integration and Social Policy Strategies, Department of Sociology and Social Work, Aalborg University, Denmark. Her research covers welfare policy, urban sociology, social work, and social theory. Cory Blad is Professor and Chair of Sociology at Manhattan College. His work focuses on the impact of political economic change on nationalist politics and cultural political mobilization. His recent work includes “Faustian States: Nationalist Politics and the Problem of Legitimacy in the Neoliberal Era” in Global Culture: Theories and Paradigms Revisited, edited by Vincenzo Mele and Marina Vujnovic (2016) and "Course Corrections and Failed Rationales: How Comparative Advantage and Debt Are Used to Legitimate Austerity in Africa and Latin America" with Samuel Oloruntoba and Jon Shefer in Third World Quarterly (2016).

• List of Figures and TablesNotes on Contributors1 Social Welfare Responses in a Neoliberal Era: Adaptive Responses, Sustained Need, and Exacerbated HardshipsCory Blad and Mia Arp Fallov2 Crisis Neoliberalism and the Social Welfare State: Structural Challenges and Policy ResponsesRicardo A. Dello Buono3 Searching for Saviors: Economic Adversities and the Challenge of Political Legitimacy in the Neoliberal EraCory Blad4 Welfare Regime, Neoliberal Transformation, and Social Exclusion in Mexico, 1980–2015Lukasz Czarnecki and Delfino Vargas Chanes5 Protest and the Politics of Unemployment Insurance: Reforming Welfare States in Times of AusterityRossella Ciccia and César Guzmán-Concha6 We Need to Focus on the Resources: Struggling with Neoliberal Economic Rationales in Social Work with Children and FamiliesMaria Appel Nissen7 Collective Action, Collective Impact and Community Foundations: The Emerging Role of Local Institution Building in an Era of Globalization and Declining Social Safety NetsFrank Ridzi8 Social Work in and around the Home: Using Home as a Site to Promote InclusionMia Arp Fallov and Maria Appel Nissen9 Potentiality, Development Ideals, and Realities of Social WorkPia Ringø10 Youth Experiencing Poverty in a Neoliberal Canadian Context: Understanding Systems Access from the Experiences of Young People and Frontline StaffNaomi Nichols and Jayne Malenfant11 Youth Responses to Neoliberal Erosion of SolidarityVibeke Bak Nielsen12 Social Welfare Responses and Professional Resilience in a (Post)Neoliberal Era (Or How to Understand the Dangers and Potentials of Today)Mia Arp Fallov and Cory BladReferencesIndex

Mia Arp Fallov, Ph.D. in Sociology, is Associate Professor of Social Integration and Social Policy Strategies, Department of Sociology and Social Work, Aalborg University, Denmark. Her research covers welfare policy, urban sociology, social work, and social theory. Cory Blad is Professor and Chair of Sociology at Manhattan College. His work focuses on the impact of political economic change on nationalist politics and cultural political mobilization. His recent work includes “Faustian States: Nationalist Politics and the Problem of Legitimacy in the Neoliberal Era” in Global Culture: Theories and Paradigms Revisited, edited by Vincenzo Mele and Marina Vujnovic (2016) and "Course Corrections and Failed Rationales: How Comparative Advantage and Debt Are Used to Legitimate Austerity in Africa and Latin America" with Samuel Oloruntoba and Jon Shefer in Third World Quarterly (2016).

• List of Figures and TablesNotes on Contributors1 Social Welfare Responses in a Neoliberal Era: Adaptive Responses, Sustained Need, and Exacerbated HardshipsCory Blad and Mia Arp Fallov2 Crisis Neoliberalism and the Social Welfare State: Structural Challenges and Policy ResponsesRicardo A. Dello Buono3 Searching for Saviors: Economic Adversities and the Challenge of Political Legitimacy in the Neoliberal EraCory Blad4 Welfare Regime, Neoliberal Transformation, and Social Exclusion in Mexico, 1980–2015Lukasz Czarnecki and Delfino Vargas Chanes5 Protest and the Politics of Unemployment Insurance: Reforming Welfare States in Times of AusterityRossella Ciccia and César Guzmán-Concha6 We Need to Focus on the Resources: Struggling with Neoliberal Economic Rationales in Social Work with Children and FamiliesMaria Appel Nissen7 Collective Action, Collective Impact and Community Foundations: The Emerging Role of Local Institution Building in an Era of Globalization and Declining Social Safety NetsFrank Ridzi8 Social Work in and around the Home: Using Home as a Site to Promote InclusionMia Arp Fallov and Maria Appel Nissen9 Potentiality, Development Ideals, and Realities of Social WorkPia Ringø10 Youth Experiencing Poverty in a Neoliberal Canadian Context: Understanding Systems Access from the Experiences of Young People and Frontline StaffNaomi Nichols and Jayne Malenfant11 Youth Responses to Neoliberal Erosion of SolidarityVibeke Bak Nielsen12 Social Welfare Responses and Professional Resilience in a (Post)Neoliberal Era (Or How to Understand the Dangers and Potentials of Today)Mia Arp Fallov and Cory BladReferencesIndex