{"title":"Hilary Cottam","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHilary Cottam\u003c\/strong\u003e offers insightful explorations into social innovation and transformation, presenting fresh perspectives on how we can reshape education, work, and welfare. Her writing invites readers to reconsider traditional systems and envision more compassionate, effective approaches for the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough thoughtful analysis and compelling narratives, Cottam’s work challenges conventional thinking and encourages practical, human-centred solutions. These books are ideal for those interested in the evolving landscape of education and social policy.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"radical-help-by-hilary-cottam-9780349009094","title":"Radical Help","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe welfare state was revolutionary: it lifted thousands out of poverty, provided decent homes, good education and security. But it is out of kilter now: an elaborate and expensive system of managing needs and risks. Today we face new challenges. Our resources have changed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHilary Cottam takes us through five 'Experiments' to show us a new design. We start on a Swindon housing estate where families who have spent years revolving within our current welfare systems are supported to design their own way out. We spend time with young people who are helped to make new connections - with radical results. We turn to the question of good health care and then to the world of work and see what happens when people are given different tools to make change. Then we see those over sixty design a new and affordable system of support.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt the heart of this way of working is human connection. Upending the current crisis of managing scarcity, we see instead that our capacities for the relationships that can make the changes are abundant.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe must work with individuals, families and communities to grow the core capabilities we all need to flourish. \u003ci\u003eRadical Help\u003c\/i\u003e describes the principles behind the approach, the design process that makes the work possible and the challenges of transition. It is bold - and above all, practical. It is not a book of dreams. 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Instead, Hilary Cottam identifies work as a cultural force at the heart of good lives, strong communities and a sense of a shared national destiny. Crucially, in these dramatic times, she shows how we can shape this force to meet technological change, our ecological crisis and the challenges of the world's deep injustices. We can create a work revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAmbitious but rooted in the ideas of everyday experts - real workers from all walks of life - this is a realistic and hopeful book. Hilary Cottam has crossed the UK and the USA; she's spent time in communities considered by outsiders as 'left behind' and in places at the centre of financial and technological power. 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