Working Under the Safety Net: Policy and Practice with the New American Poor (SAGE Human Services Guides) - Softcover

Burghardt, Steve; Fabricant, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803927002 ISBN 13: 9780803927001

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 1987

Synopsis

Working Under the Safety Net focuses on groups most affected by changes in welfare state policy over the last decade -- the homeless, the hungry, the elderly, Black single mothers, the physically disabled and the new unemployed. The authors analyse the policy debate surrounding the needs of each group, synthesize the policy debate and distil the practical and organizational lessons into a new and exciting framework.

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About the Author

Steve Burghardt, PhD, is professor of social work at the Hunter College School of Social Work and partner of the Leadership Transformation Group, is a recognized expert on community organizing, democratic leadership, and popular education. He has taught, trained, consulted, and organized with both grass roots community groups and large scale public agencies on new models of practice throughout his career. The author of seven other books and numerous articles, he has won numerous awards for his teaching on community organizing through popular education, political economy of social welfare, and theories of social change.

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803927002
• ISBN 13: 9780803927001
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 184