This book focuses on the contributions of organized labor in the development and evolution of workplace human services in America and eight countries around the world. Beginning with an overview of labor-sponsored social service programs, it showcases the achievements by major trade unions in the arena of human services, from inception to present.
The textbook concludes with a summary chapter which conceptualizes and summarizes current achievements and forecasts the future role of the labor movement in the delivery of workplace human services in the United States and abroad. It will be of use to those involved in the labor movement as well as practitioners in the fields of social work, human services, and labor and industrial relations.
This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Workplace Behavioral Health.
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Paul A. Kurzman is Professor of Social Work and Chair of the World of Work Specialization at the Hunter College School of Social Work and Professor of Social Welfare at the Graduate School & University Center of The City University of New York. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Teaching in Social Work and author of the recent 2008 entry on "Occupational Social Work" in the authoritative Encyclopedia of Social Work.
R. Paul Maiden is Vice Dean and Professor at the University of Southern California School of Social Work and Editor of the Journal of Workplace Behavioral Health. He is also a faculty member in the Work & Life concentration and has spearheaded the development of USC’s new MSW program in Military Social Work and Veterans Services. He has an extensive portfolio of domestic and international publications, presentations and consultations on a wide range of workplace human service issues.
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