KEITH POPPLE is Professor of Social Work at London South Bank University, UK, and author of Analysing Community Work (Open University Press, 1995) as well as co-editor of two other books. He is a member of the editorial board of the quarterly international journal, Community Development Journal, for which he was editor from 1998 to 2003.PAUL STEPNEY is Lecturer in Social Work and Social Policy at the University of Wolverhampton, UK and Visiting Lecturer at the University of Tampere, Finland. He is co-editor of Social Work Models, Methods and Theories: A Framework for Practice (Russell House Publishing, 2000).

• PART 1: THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF COMMUNITYIntroduction: The Idea of CommunityTheories of Community: The Contribution of Community StudiesRethinking Community: Globalisation, neo-liberalism and InequalityPART 2: COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL POLICYCommunity as an Organising Focus for Social PolicyCommunity Care: Promoting a needs-led and empowering service or using the market to contain costs?Remaking Community: Communitarianism and New Labour's 'Third Way' Project to Modernise the Welfare StatePART 3: THEORY TO PRACTICEThe Theory and Practice of Community Social WorkCommunity Work and Community ActionFuture Possibilities for Community-Based Social Work in an International Context.