Social welfare, social policy and social services Books

Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThorough, informative, comprehensive, and thoughtful, this volume presents lessons useful for development discussions in other (Asian and Pacific Island) social, political, and cultural contexts, including Western cultures. This text will have value well beyond social work. -- Cathryne L. Schmitz, University of North Carolina at Greensboro A valuable contribution to the globalized social work education. International Journal of Social WelfareTable of ContentsForeword, by Manohar Pawar Preface 1. Overview of Social Welfare in East Asia and the Pacific, by Sharlene B. C. L. Furuto 2. China's Changing Social Welfare, by Minjie Zhang 3. Understanding Social Welfare in South Korea, by Jun Sung Hong, Young Sook Kim, Na Youn Lee, and Ji Woong Ha 4. Social Welfare in Hong Kong: Colonial Legacy and Challenges for the HKSAR, by Venus Tsui, Alvin Shiulain Lee, and Ernest Chui Wing-tak 5. Social Welfare and Social Work Development in Taiwan, by Li-ju Jang and Pei-jen Tsai 6. Social Welfare and Social Work in Thailand, by Jitti Mongkolnchaiarunya and Nuanyai Wattanakoon 7. Social Welfare and Social Work in Indonesia, by Adi Fahrudin 8. The Dynamics of Social Welfare: The Malaysian Experience, by Azlinda Azman and Sharima Ruwaida Abbas 9. Social Work for a Sustainable Micronesian Region, by Vivian Dames, Joliene Hasugulayag, LisaLinda Natividad, and Gerhard Schwab 10. Social Welfare in the Samoan Islands: A Comparison of Two Models, by Kenneth E. Galea'i 11. Cambodia: Social Welfare Renewed, by Thy Naroeun, Ammon Padeken, and Sharlene B. C. L. Furuto 12. Social Welfare Contrasted in East Asia and the Pacific, by Sharlene B. C. L. Furuto Appendix Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is the first to assess emerging market-based social change approaches comparatively, focusing specifically on social entrepreneurship, corporate social responsibility, fair trade, and private sustainable developmentTrade ReviewA timely and original conceptualization, this groundbreaking book analyzes the most recent trends in market-oriented approaches to social development. Through a rigorous assessment of corporate social responsibility, social entrepreneurship, private sustainable development, and fair trade, Steven G. Anderson delivers a sound understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of these approaches. A stimulating analysis full of invaluable insights, this work is a must-read for social change agents. -- Neil Gilbert, University of California, Berkeley This is a terrific book that brings social entrepreneurship into perspective as one of many ways to achieve social impact and innovation. Anderson has done a masterful job in pulling together the fragmented literature on social innovation. He avoids the standard cheerleading that characterizes so many market-based approaches to solving global poverty and other seemingly intractable problems. Not only does he offer a set of clear-headed recommendations for harvesting thoughtful interventions but he is respectful toward all sides of the ongoing debate about what does and does not merit consideration as social innovation. -- Paul C. Light, New York University There is nothing quite like this book. It should make an important contribution to the academic literature on markets and social change and to our broader thinking about social policy and the comparative advantages of businesses, nonprofit organizations, and hybrids. -- Diane Kaplan Vinokur, University of Michigan A useful guide for scholars who are interested in the implications of public-private partnerships and various market-based strategies for nonprofits or social service organizations. -- Wonhyung Lee Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector QuarterlyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction to Market-Oriented Social Development Approaches 2. Developing Social Change Models 3. Corporate Social Responsibility 4. Social Entrepreneurship 5. Private Sustainable Development 6. Fair Trade 7. Market-Based Social Change Models: Reflections on Strengths, Limitations, and Directions for Social Change Advocates Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThrough interviews with couples and observations and participation in marriage education courses, Jennifer M. Randles challenges assumptions about marriage and critically examines the effects of such classes. She ventures inside healthy marriage classrooms to reveal how they reflect broader issues of culture, gender, governance, and inequality.Trade ReviewA useful, policy-relevant, and balanced treatment of how government-funded marriage and relationship education really works on the ground. -- Shawn Fremstad, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress The growing income gap in America has brought with it a marriage gap. Children are born at every class level but increasingly the rich marry and the poor don't. In 2002 President Bush set up the Healthy Marriage Initiative to teach poor unmarried parents to show empathy, listen actively, avoid violence, and marry. Participants loved and learned from the program, but discovered in its underlying ideology a focus on choice (to be or not to be nice to your partner) and silence about options (to get useful training and well paid work). In this beautifully researched, wise, important book, Randles tackles one of America's most important dilemmas and points to urgently needed solutions. -- Arlie Hochschild, author of The Second Shift and Strangers in Their Own Land This monograph is a must read for a sophisticated analysis of America's attempt to promote marriage as a poverty reduction strategy. With in-depth ethnographic research and smart theoretical arguments, Randles shows that the classes themselves were often operationalized differently than policymakers had intended. But in the end, even improved relationships have to contend with the lack of jobs and opportunities, which are the root cause of poverty. -- Barbara J. Risman, professor of sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago Jennifer Randles's Proposing Prosperity is crucial reading for scholars of family and social policy. She combines essential policy background with ethnography of marriage promotion classes that just might help "true believers" recognize what is sorely missing from these seemingly kind-hearted projects. Bonus: Her clear and vivid text means my college students in family and social policy classes will read it this year. -- Virginia Rutter, co-editor, Families as They Really Are An eye-opening account of what federal marriage education programs look like on the ground and why they have been so ineffective in their goal of strengthening marriage. A well-researched and highly useful book. -- Andrew Cherlin, Johns Hopkins University Randles's astute interviews and observations reveal why, despite good intentions on all sides, classes designed to 'improve' the relationship skills of low-income couples fail to address their real-life barriers to intimacy and stability. An incisive, compassionate, and engrossing work. -- Stephanie Coontz, author, Marriage, A History: How Love Conquered Marriage In this important and valuable book, Jennifer Randles immerses herself in state-run relationship classes, and shows they teach more about the politics and ideology of marriage promotion than about solving the pressing problems poor families face. She exposes the irony that, although relationship skills training may be useful, it won't address the problems of family inequality. -- Philip Cohen, University of MarylandTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction: Learning and Legislating Love 2. Rationalizing Romance: Reconciling the Modern Marriage Dilemma through Skilled Love 3. Teaching Upward Mobility: Skilled Love and the Marriage Gap 4. Intimate Inequalities and Curtailed Commitments: The Marriage Gap in a Middle-Class Marriage Culture 5. The Missing "M Word": Promoting Committed Co-Parenting 6. Men, Money, and Marriageability: Promoting Responsible Fatherhood Through Marital Masculinity 7. "It's Not Just Us": Relationship Skills and Poverty's Perpetual Problems 8. Conclusion: Family Inequality and the Limits of Skills Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisReassembling Motherhood brings together contributors from across the disciplines to consider the transformation of motherhood as both an identity and a role. It examines how bearing and rearing a child are being restructured as reproductive labor and care work change around the globe, emphasizing the limits imposed by race, class, and inequality.Trade ReviewErgas, Jensen, and Michel have edited an important collection that crystallizes the unequal and uneven transformations in the legal, social, economic, and biological relations of motherhood in the twenty-first century. Together, Reassembling Motherhood explores what we know, pushes the boundaries of knowledge, and raises new questions for further research. The collection is provocative in the best sense. -- Eileen Boris, University of California, Santa BarbaraTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction. Negotiating "Mother" in the Twenty-First Century: Between Choice and Constraint, by Yasmine Ergas, Jane Jenson, and Sonya Michel 1. Certain Mothers, Uncertain Fathers: Placing Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Historical Perspective, by Nara Milanich 2. Assisted Reproductive Technologies and the Biological Bottom Line, by Linda G. Kahn and Wendy Chavkin 3. Multiple "Mothers," Many Requirements for Protection: Children's Rights and the Status of Mothers in the Context of International Commercial Surrogacy, by Claire Achmad 4. The Borders of Legal Motherhood: Rethinking Access to Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Europe, by Letizia Palumbo 5. Pregnant Bodies and the Subjects of Rights: The Surrogacy-Abortion Nexus, by Yasmine Ergas 6. The Motherless Fetus: Ultrasound Pictures and Their Magic Disappearing Trick, by Anne Higonnet 7. Contracting for Motherhood: Postadoption Visitation Agreements, by Carol Sanger 8. Relinquishment and Adoption in Tamil Society: Mothers' Experiences with De-kinning, by Pien Bos 9. Marginalized Mothers and Intersecting Systems of Surveillance: Prisons and Foster Care, by Dorothy Roberts 10. Care and Gender, by Martha Albertson Fineman 11. The Double Lives of Transnational Mothers, by Sonya Michel and Gabrielle Oliveira 12. Euro-Orphans and the Stigmatization of Migrant Motherhood, by Helma Lutz 13. The New Maternalism: Children First; Women Second, by Jane Jenson Afterword: Crossing into the Future, by Alice Kessler-Harris Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisReassembling Motherhood brings together contributors from across the disciplines to consider the transformation of motherhood as both an identity and a role. It examines how bearing and rearing a child are being restructured as reproductive labor and care work change around the globe, emphasizing the limits imposed by race, class, and inequality.Trade ReviewThis book is an important read for academics, as well as law and policy makers working in the fields of reproduction, families, and care work. * Canadian Journal of Sociology *What does motherhood mean in the twenty-first century? If you want informed and fascinating answers, read Reassembling Motherhood. A stellar interdisciplinary team of international scholars report on how technological advances, cultural changes, global migration, and variable state policies have transformed mothering. This landmark book will not only shape scholarly research but also instruct policymakers and engage a wide audience. -- Viviana A. Zelizer, Lloyd Cotsen ’50 Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, author of Economic Lives: How Culture Shapes the EconomyThis fabulous collection challenges our conventional understanding of motherhood and its connection to bodies, technologies, global migration, and policy, and pushes the debate to the next level. Ergas, Jenson, Michel and their contributing authors masterfully and convincingly trace the dismantling of the traditional notion of motherhood and the expansion of its choices, and show how these in turn create different forms of social inequalities, and physical, emotional, and global connections and disconnections. This volume is a must read for anyone interested in the issues of motherhood, care, social inequality, and public policy. -- Ito Peng, University of Toronto, coeditor of Gender, Migration, and the Work of Care: A Multi-Scalar Approach to the Pacific RimErgas, Jenson, and Michel have edited an important collection that crystallizes the unequal and uneven transformations in the legal, social, economic, and biological relations of motherhood in the twenty-first century. Together, Reassembling Motherhood explores what we know, pushes the boundaries of knowledge, and raises new questions for further research. The collection is provocative in the best sense. -- Eileen Boris, University of California, Santa Barbara, coauthor of Caring for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare StateTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Negotiating “Mother” in the Twenty-First Century: Between Choice and Constraint, by Yasmine Ergas, Jane Jenson, and Sonya Michel1. Certain Mothers, Uncertain Fathers: Placing Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Historical Perspective, by Nara Milanich2. Assisted Reproductive Technologies and the Biological Bottom Line, by Linda G. Kahn and Wendy Chavkin3. Multiple “Mothers,” Many Requirements for Protection: Children’s Rights and the Status of Mothers in the Context of International Commercial Surrogacy, by Claire Achmad4. The Borders of Legal Motherhood: Rethinking Access to Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Europe, by Letizia Palumbo5. Pregnant Bodies and the Subjects of Rights: The Surrogacy–Abortion Nexus, by Yasmine Ergas6. The Motherless Fetus: Ultrasound Pictures and Their Magic Disappearing Trick, by Anne Higonnet7. Contracting for Motherhood: Postadoption Visitation Agreements, by Carol Sanger8. Relinquishment and Adoption in Tamil Society: Mothers’ Experiences with De-kinning, by Pien Bos9. Marginalized Mothers and Intersecting Systems of Surveillance: Prisons and Foster Care, by Dorothy Roberts10. Care and Gender, by Martha Albertson Fineman11. The Double Lives of Transnational Mothers, by Sonya Michel and Gabrielle Oliveira12. Euro-Orphans and the Stigmatization of Migrant Motherhood, by Helma Lutz13. The New Maternalism: Children First; Women Second, by Jane JensonAfterword: Crossing into the Future, by Alice Kessler-HarrisContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisEach chapter pairs a description of a specific state, national, and transnational law or regulation with the testimony of individuals struggling to find legitimacy and sanctuary among themTrade ReviewThe Immigrant Other paints a moving picture of the lived experience of immigrants in the contemporary age. Through memorable narratives of individual struggle and collective resistance, the book provides valuable insight into the pain and struggles but also the heroism of immigrants in the face of nation states that criminalize their lives. -- Robin Jacobson, author of The New Nativism: Proposition 187 and the Debate Over Immigration Structural violence, write the editors of this volume, is endemic within various systems that interact with immigrants. This richly textured collection examines the policies and practices that effect and uphold that problematization and marginalization as a condition of being for the 'alien.' Compelling narratives situated at multiple points of contact across the globe give voice to the often unheard: those subjected to that violence and those who endeavor to challenge that violence as a given. -- Yoosun Park, Smith College School for Social WorkTable of Contents1. Introduction: Multiple Truths and Privileged Collaborations in a Transnational World, by Rich Furman, Greg Lamphear, Doug Epps, and Iman Ujaama 2. National Insecurities: The Apprehension of Criminal and Fugitive Aliens, by Tanya Golash-Boza 3. Unexpected Asylums, Tenuous Futures: Held in Abeyance at a State Psychiatric Institute, by Nora J. Kenworthy 4. Criminalization of Transgender Immigrants: The Case of Scarlett, by Nadine Nakamura and Alejandro Morales 5. Criminalization of Muslim American Men in the United States, by Saher Selod 6. Immigrants Organize Against Everyday Life Victimization, by Kathleen Staudt and Josiah Heyman 7. Undocumented Latino Migrant Day Laborers in the San Francisco Bay Area: Psychosocial, Economic, and Political Consequences, by Kurt C. Organista, Lobsang Marcia, Carlos Martinez, Miguel Acala, and Jose Ramirez 8. "It's Like You Are a Criminal": Asylum Seekers and Immigrant Detention, by Connie Oxford 9. Hybrid Governance and the Criminalization of Somali Refugees Seeking Social Services in a Midwestern Town, by Cynthia Howson and Ashley Damp 10. Filipina Lives: Transnationalism, Migrant Labor, and Experiences of Criminalization in the United States, by Valerie Francisco, Geleen Abenoja, and Angelica Lim 11. The Criminalization of Brazilian Immigrants, by Kara Cebulko and Heloisa Maria Galvao 12. Living with Drug Lords and Mules in New York: Contrasting Colombian Criminality and Transnational Belonging, by Ariana Ochoa Camacho 13. Mexico's Transmigrants: Between Los Zetas and the Iron Fist of the State, by Sonja Wolf 14. Stigmatized, Segregated, Essential: The Position of Immigrant Live-In Care Workers Vis-a-Vis Formal Social Work Provision in Italy, by Paolo Boccagni 15. Immigrants' Experiences with Law Enforcement Authorities in Spain Maria Aysa-Lastra 16. Creating Criminals: Australia's Response to Asylum Seekers and Refugees, by Linda Briskman and Lucy Fiske 17. Longing to Belong: Undocumented Youth, Institutional Invisibility, and Ambivalent Belonging in Canada, by Francesca Meloni 18. Migrants and Justice in Qatar: Time, Mobility, Language, and Ethnography, by Andrew Gardner, Silvia Pessoa, and Laura Harkness 19. Resistance to the Criminalization of Migration: Migrant Protest in Greece, by Georgios Karyotis and Dimitris Skleparis Index

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Book SynopsisEach chapter pairs a description of a specific state, national, and transnational law or regulation with the testimony of individuals struggling to find legitimacy and sanctuary among themTrade ReviewThe Immigrant Other paints a moving picture of the lived experience of immigrants in the contemporary age. Through memorable narratives of individual struggle and collective resistance, the book provides valuable insight into the pain and struggles but also the heroism of immigrants in the face of nation states that criminalize their lives. -- Robin Jacobson, author of The New Nativism: Proposition 187 and the Debate Over Immigration Structural violence, write the editors of this volume, is endemic within various systems that interact with immigrants. This richly textured collection examines the policies and practices that effect and uphold that problematization and marginalization as a condition of being for the 'alien.' Compelling narratives situated at multiple points of contact across the globe give voice to the often unheard: those subjected to that violence and those who endeavor to challenge that violence as a given. -- Yoosun Park, Smith College School for Social WorkTable of Contents1. Introduction: Multiple Truths and Privileged Collaborations in a Transnational World, by Rich Furman, Greg Lamphear, Doug Epps, and Iman Ujaama 2. National Insecurities: The Apprehension of Criminal and Fugitive Aliens, by Tanya Golash-Boza 3. Unexpected Asylums, Tenuous Futures: Held in Abeyance at a State Psychiatric Institute, by Nora J. Kenworthy 4. Criminalization of Transgender Immigrants: The Case of Scarlett, by Nadine Nakamura and Alejandro Morales 5. Criminalization of Muslim American Men in the United States, by Saher Selod 6. Immigrants Organize Against Everyday Life Victimization, by Kathleen Staudt and Josiah Heyman 7. Undocumented Latino Migrant Day Laborers in the San Francisco Bay Area: Psychosocial, Economic, and Political Consequences, by Kurt C. Organista, Lobsang Marcia, Carlos Martinez, Miguel Acala, and Jose Ramirez 8. "It's Like You Are a Criminal": Asylum Seekers and Immigrant Detention, by Connie Oxford 9. Hybrid Governance and the Criminalization of Somali Refugees Seeking Social Services in a Midwestern Town, by Cynthia Howson and Ashley Damp 10. Filipina Lives: Transnationalism, Migrant Labor, and Experiences of Criminalization in the United States, by Valerie Francisco, Geleen Abenoja, and Angelica Lim 11. The Criminalization of Brazilian Immigrants, by Kara Cebulko and Heloisa Maria Galvao 12. Living with Drug Lords and Mules in New York: Contrasting Colombian Criminality and Transnational Belonging, by Ariana Ochoa Camacho 13. Mexico's Transmigrants: Between Los Zetas and the Iron Fist of the State, by Sonja Wolf 14. Stigmatized, Segregated, Essential: The Position of Immigrant Live-In Care Workers Vis-a-Vis Formal Social Work Provision in Italy, by Paolo Boccagni 15. Immigrants' Experiences with Law Enforcement Authorities in Spain Maria Aysa-Lastra 16. Creating Criminals: Australia's Response to Asylum Seekers and Refugees, by Linda Briskman and Lucy Fiske 17. Longing to Belong: Undocumented Youth, Institutional Invisibility, and Ambivalent Belonging in Canada, by Francesca Meloni 18. Migrants and Justice in Qatar: Time, Mobility, Language, and Ethnography, by Andrew Gardner, Silvia Pessoa, and Laura Harkness 19. Resistance to the Criminalization of Migration: Migrant Protest in Greece, by Georgios Karyotis and Dimitris Skleparis Index

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Book SynopsisOverwhelming evidence indicates that new social workers going into child welfare or other trauma-related care discover emotional challenges. In a textbook that bridges the gap between theoretical and pragmatic approaches, Jason M. Newell provides a solution by conceptualizing self-care as the key to professional resilience.Trade ReviewNewell emphasizes the importance of professional self-care as it relates to providing ethical and quality services to others who are vulnerable and needing help. Clearly, if as helping professionals we do not take the first breath of oxygen, how is it possible to help others breathe? -- Carolyn Szafran, Washburn University Jason M. Newell's important book is a wake call to the field of social work and its accrediting body; that self-care is the key to professional resilience. Awake and read this book! -- Charles R. Figley, Tulane UniversityTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. An Introduction to Resilient Practice Through Holistic Self-CareSection 1: Theory, Conceptualization, and Measurement2. Understanding the Connection Between Stress and Trauma 3. Chronic Empathy and Trauma in Human Service Work: Implications for Social Service Professionals4. Understanding and Preventing the Effects of Professional Burnout and Indirect Trauma: An Individual and Organizational Challenge5. Assessment and Measurement of Occupational Stress and TraumaSection 2: A Holistic Framework for the Application of Self-Care Practices6. The Essential Practice of Professional Self-Care: The Key to Professional Resilience7. Preserving Professional Resilience: The Ongoing Practice of Holistic Self-Care8. The Ethical Obligation of Professional Self-Care, with James L. Jackson Jr.9. Trauma-Informed Education, Training, and Professional Development10. The Use of Mindfulness Practice as a Function of Self-CareEpilogue: Finding Balance in Social Work Practice: Self-Care as Practice WisdomWorksheetsPersonal Reflection Exercise: Resilience and Self-AppreciationPersonal Reflection Exercise: Engaging Group Discussion on TraumaSample Assignment: Deep Breathing ExerciseSample Assessment of Organizational Strengths and ChallengesSelf-Care Process: Setting Organizational GoalsSelf-Care Process: Setting Personal GoalsProfessional Development Assignment: Construct a Plan of Personal and Professional Self-CareSuggestions for Developing a Comprehensive Plan of Self-CareSample Goals and Objectives for a Plan of Self-CareBlank Template for a Comprehensive Plan of Self-CareSample Self-Care Plan: Personal TableSample Assignment: Journaling MindfullyBibliography of Recommended ReadingsBibliography of Suggested Internet ResourcesGlossaryReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisAs older adults and their families opt out of nursing homes, a range of home and community-based services have risen up to provide care. This book examines existing and emerging models of these services. Emphasizing the multidisciplinary and inter-professional practice approaches used to deliver care, it is an essential learning tool.Trade ReviewPresenting a welcomed and needed comprehensive examination of home and community services—which has received insufficient attention until now—Anderson, Dabelko-Schoeny, and Fields offer a historical and contemporary understanding of this critical life space. Students, practitioners, policy makers, and other stakeholders in the health professions will learn fundamentals and gain new passion for assuring that health and care come home. -- Laura N. Gitlin, Drexel UniversityAmericans overwhelmingly desire to live at home in their communities as they grow older, especially those with chronic health conditions and daily living challenges who often fear ending up in institutions away from loved ones and friends. Home- and Community-Based Services for Older Adults is an essential primer for those working across the care continuum and seek to deliver person-centered support so that all of us can live well in the place we call “home." -- Gretchen Alkema, The SCAN FoundationThe authors have masterfully integrated information from a broad range of sources and distilled it into a well-researched, well-organized, well-written, and well, swell book that provides sound historical context, contemporary policy and practice implications, and a peek at the future. -- Mercedes Bern-Klug, University of IowaThis book could fill a gap in student education regarding her or his future professional opportunities and experiences. It is useful to have such depth provided on HCBS, as these are often embedded across content or covered in one to several chapters among other texts. The book is well written and accessible to readers at multiple levels of education. -- Marla Berg-Weger and Cara Wallace, St. Louis UniversityThis volume offers a timely treatment of an evolving, complex social phenomenon. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Introduction2. Policies Related to Home- and Community-Based Services, by Amanda J. Lehning3. The Older Americans Act and the Aging Network4. Multidisciplinary and Interdisciplinary Practice Skills Across Home- and Community-Based Services Settings5. Family Caregiving6. Home Health Care 7. The Village Concept and Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities 8. Home-Based Primary Care 9. Assisted Living and Housing with Services 10. Adult Day Services11. Hospice in Community Settings 12. International Perspectives on Home- and Community-Based Services13. Technology in Home- and Community-Based Services Afterword: A Commentary on the Future of Home- and Community-Based Services, by Joseph E. GauglerGlossaryIndex

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Book SynopsisThis collection of recent essays by the influential sociologist Herbert J. Gans brings together the many themes of Gans’s wide-ranging career—the city, poverty, ethnicity, employment and political economy, and the relationship between race and class—to make the case for a policy-oriented vision for sociology.Trade ReviewHow good to have this exceptionally stimulating collection of essays that deploy decades of learning to probe fundamental challenges of political economy, race, and bases of identity. Written by a master sociologist in his characteristically lucid, accessible prose, these deep and compelling ruminations offer challenges to thought and action on every page. -- Ira Katznelson, Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History, Columbia University These essays remind us of the balance and the wonderful clarity and compassion that inform all of Gans's work on urban and other social problems. And they remain acutely insightful and compelling at this perilous moment in American history. -- Frances Fox Piven, the Graduate Center, City University of New York Herbert J. Gans is among the most original and prolific students of American urban society. For over fifty years, he has taken up some of the nation's most vexing problems-racism, poverty, immigration-writing with clarity, urgency, and keen intelligence. In my own work, I find myself going back to Gans again and again, learning something new each time. Uncompromising yet pragmatic, clear-eyed yet hopeful, this brilliant new collection of essays is essential reading. -- Matthew Desmond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City A valuable reader for undergraduate classes in urban, economic, and race sociology, as well as a book valuable to policy analysts and makers. A great contribution to the field. -- Deirdre Oakley, Georgia State UniversityTable of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsPart I: The City1. Some Problems of and Futures for Urban Sociology: Toward a Sociology of Settlements2. The Sociology of Space: A Use-Centered View3. Involuntary Segregation and the Ghetto: Disconnecting Process and Place4. Concentrated Poverty: A Critical AnalysisPart II: Poverty5. Studying the Bottom of American Society6. The Challenge of Multigenerational Poverty7. The Benefits of PovertyPart III: Jobs and the Political Economy8. Superfluous Workers: The Labor Market’s Invisible Discards9. Work-Time Reduction: Possibilities and Problems10. Basic Income: A Remedy for a Sick Labor Market?11. Seeking a Political Solution to the Economy’s Problems12. High School Economics Texts and the American EconomyPart IV: Race and Class13. Race as Class14. “Whitening” and the Changing American Racial Hierarchy15. The Moynihan Report and Its Aftermaths: A Critical AnalysisPart V: Ethnicity16. The Coming Darkness of Late-Generation European-American Ethnicity17. The End of Late-Generation European Ethnicity in America?Appendix: Working in Six Research Areas—a Multi-Field Sociological Career

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Book SynopsisThe welfare state has been under attack for decades, but now more than ever we need strong social programs to combat inequality, support social justice, and even improve economic performance. This book brings together distinguished contributors to examine global variations of social programs and make the case for a redesigned welfare state.Trade ReviewA robust, empirically based defense of extensive, universalist social protection regimes against the neoliberal counterintellectual revolution. -- Howard A. Chernick, Hunter CollegeA most important volume at a time when the negative political consequences and resulting economic damage of a poorly functioning welfare state are so evidently apparent in several major countries. This book shows how the welfare state should be strengthened and adapted to address the mounting economic, social, and environmental challenges of today’s and, most crucially, tomorrow's world. -- François Bourguignon, Paris School of Economics, former Chief Economist of the World BankThe welfare state is under attack in many countries, but as this volume shows with both moral and economic clarity, must be both defended and refashioned for the twenty-first century. Connecting theoretical research on market failure to cross-country evidence showing the welfare state’s promotion of growth and innovation, with specific sections on topics ranging from women’s inclusion in the labor force to retirement security, The Welfare State Revisited is invaluable for experts and practitioners alike. -- Felicia Wong, president and CEO, Roosevelt InstituteRecommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcronymsPrefacePart I1. The Welfare State in the Twenty-First Century, by Joseph E. Stiglitz2. Adapting Labor and Social Protection Systems to Twenty-First-Century Capitalism, by Sandra Polaski3. The Welfare State in the Twenty-First Century: Latest Trends in Social Protection, by Isabel Ortiz4. Supporting Equal Opportunities Through Laws and Policies: Global Progress and Persisting Challenges, by Jody Heymann and Aleta Sprague5. The Sustainable Development Goals, Domestic Resource Mobilization, and the Poor, by Nora Lustig6. Intra-Household Inequality and Overall Inequality, by Ravi Kanbur7. Human Capital, Inequality, and Growth, by Torben M. AndersenPart II8. The EU Welfare State: Past, Present, and Future, by Elva Bova and Ernst Stetter9. Visible Costs and Hidden Gains, by Kalle Moene10. Social Protection Systems in Latin America: Toward Universalism and Redistribution, by José Antonio Ocampo and Natalie Gómez-Arteaga11. Social Protection in Latin America: Some Challenges for Reducing Inequality, by Ana Sojo12. Do Competitive Markets of Individual Savings Accounts and Health Insurance Work as Part of the Welfare State?, by Andras Uthoff13. Innovations in Protecting the Old: Mostly Social Insurance and Some Assets, by Teresa Ghilarducci14. Universal Basic Income and the Welfare State, by Richard McGahey15. Employment Guarantee in the Age of Precarity: The Case of India’s NREGA, by Amit Basole and Arjun JayadevContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisDoctors’ Orders offers a groundbreaking examination of the construction and consequences of status distinctions between physicians. Tania M. Jenkins spent years observing and interviewing American, international, and osteopathic medical residents in two hospitals to reveal the unspoken mechanisms that lead to hierarchies among supposed equals.Trade ReviewDoctors' Orders adds essential insights to our understanding of both status and elites. This empirically rich comparative study shows how the medical profession conceptualizes itself as rewarding talent, all the while structurally organizing itself to reproduce inequalities. These are important insights for understanding the medical profession, and they extend well beyond, to a general understanding of how stratification works in America. -- Shamus Khan, coauthor of Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus and Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul's SchoolAn important reminder that inequality exists everywhere, even within the medical profession. A major contribution to our understanding status hierarchies within medicine and their impact on patient care. -- Charles L. Bosk, author of Forgive and Remember: Managing Medical FailureDoctors' Orders is an insightful examination of the forces that drive status inequality in medicine. I recommend it for anyone interested in how the U.S. medical residency system really works. -- Sandeep Jauhar, author of Intern: A Doctor’s InitiationDoctors' Orders reveals stark divides in the experiences of medical school students and graduates in the United States based on degree type and nationality. Jenkins' fascinating ethnographic study shows how concerns about status at the individual and institutional levels pervade the selection and training of doctors and reproduce inequalities within the medical profession. The findings, however, transcend medicine, illuminating how taken-for-granted assumptions about the link between educational prestige and individual merit shape career outcomes among US professionals. The book is a must-read for scholars interested in medical sociology and the sociology of professions as well as practitioners. -- Lauren A. Rivera, author of Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite JobsDoctors’ Orders sheds light on an area of medical sociology that is important but not terribly well understood. Jenkins's book is well written, insightful, and compelling. Its contribution will endure. -- Jason Schnittker, author of The Diagnostic System: Why the Classification of Psychiatric Disorders Is Necessary, Difficult, and Never SettledWith verve and an ethnographic sensibility, Jenkins explores how the medical profession informally sorts its members into elites and an underclass. Rather than merit, structural and institutional factors determine sharply diverging career paths. In this gripping but disturbing book, medical socialization meets social inequities along class, race, and nativist lines. An absolute must read. -- Stefan Timmermans, author of Postmortem: How Medical Examiners Explain Suspicious DeathsA clearly written, accessible, and powerful book based on rigorous research...that should change the way sociologists view the medical profession, professional training, and the reproduction of social inequalities within professions in the United States. * Social Forces *Such penetrating analysis makes Doctors’ Orders an instant classic and forcefully announces Jenkins’s place at the vanguard of a new generation of scholars who apply sociological insights to the study of medical education. * American Journal of Sociology *A must-read for those interested in medical education, the social organization of hospitals, and the reproduction of status hierarchies in the professions. * Symbolic Interaction *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsList of Terms and AcronymsIntroduction1. Meet the Residents2. The Match List3. A Day on the Wards4. Grooming5. Graduation6. The Navy SEALs and the National GuardConclusions and ImplicationsAppendix: On Being a “Second-Year Intern”NotesWorks CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisThis second edition draws on extensive research to portray how social-action organizations have evolved over the past twenty-five years, building power in the struggle for social and economic justice. It explores how organizers increasingly target corporate influence and fight pervasive intersectional injustice.Trade ReviewThis book is an urgently needed account of how people can act together through organizing to realize a shared vision of a more just world. The organizations profiled in this book teach us how to make real the most fundamental promises of democracy. -- Hahrie Han, Johns Hopkins UniversityMondros and Minieri break important new ground in this timely second edition, examining the evolution of progressive social-action organizing over the past twenty-five years. They broaden, deepen, and strengthen the original analysis with special focus on intersectional injustice, expanded corporate power, inequality, and a multiracial, feminist framework for organizing. -- Lee Staples, Boston UniversityThe organizing work profiled in this book represents our best hope at defeating the rising tides of racial intolerance and corporate malfeasance. Filled with lessons learned from organizing in cities, towns, and suburbs across the United States, Organizing for Power and Empowerment offers a roadmap out of the isolation and marginalization so many individuals face toward collective racial, gender, and economic transformation. -- Zach Norris, author Defund Fear: Safety Without Policing, Prisons, and PunishmentTable of ContentsPreface1. The Evolution of Social Action Organizing2. Organizing Against Corporate Power3. Intersectional Injustice4. Women and Gender Frames5. The Organization as a Sustained Vehicle for Change and as a Political Home6. Righteous Anger: Building the Base and Developing Leadership for Power7. Issues: The Rubik’s Cube of Organizing8. Campaign Strategy: Fundamentals and Innovation9. Using Information and Communication Technologies10. Conclusions: The Next Evolution of OrganizingPostscript: Reckoning and ResolveAppendix: Study MethodsAcknowledgmentsAdditional ResourcesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisFrederic G. Reamer offers a frank analysis of a range of boundary issues that human-service practitioners may confront. This third edition brings the book up to date, adding discussion of the ways in which practitioners’ online communications and technology-based relationships with clients can violate ethical standards.Trade ReviewFrederic G. Reamer has updated his important work on boundary issues and dual relationships to include the many boundary challenges presented by technological and digital advances. Replete with cases covering numerous compelling clinical situations, this work remains an important contribution for all health service professionals and a wonderful teaching tool for trainees. -- Arlene Steinberg, coeditor of Sexual Boundary Violations in Psychotherapy: Facing Therapist Indiscretions, Transgressions, and MisconductDual relationships constitute the most problematic complaint registered against experienced practitioners. Reamer’s framework should become the centerpiece of continuing education and part of all social work academic programs. -- Stephen M. Marson, editor, Journal of Social Work Values and EthicsAs an attorney who has represented mental health professionals for decades, I find this book to be an invaluable and comprehensive resource filled with practical examples and advice. Reamer understands the legal issues better than most attorneys and explains the issues facing behavioral health providers in an easy to understand and compelling manner. -- Robert Landau, Roberts, Carroll, Feldstein & Peirce, Inc.Boundary Issues and Dual Relationships in the Human Services provides an in-depth and clear presentation of ethics, dual relationships, boundary violations and boundary crossings, and a risk-management approach to avoiding ethical and legal issues for clients and practitioners. -- Sandra Kopels, editor, School Social Work JournalReamer’s unique ability to connect historical ethics with current trends is unmatched. His exceptional ability to tell the stories of the dilemmas faced by human service professionals is what makes him stand out as the most renowned ethicist in the social work profession. Boundary Issues and Dual Relationships in the Human Services will prove to be vital to all social workers and others in the human service field. -- Dawn Hobdy, vice president of Ethics, Diversity, and Inclusion, National Association of Social WorkersTable of ContentsPreface1. Boundary Issues and Dual Relationships: Key Concepts2. Intimate Relationships3. Emotional and Dependency Needs4. Personal Benefit5. Altruism6. Unavoidable and Unanticipated Circumstances7. Risk Management: Guidelines and StrategiesNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisGladys L. Mitchell-Walthour offers a comparative analysis of how Black women social welfare beneficiaries in Brazil and the United States defy systems of domination. She argues that poor Black women act as political subjects in the struggle to survive and challenge daily discrimination even in dire circumstances.Trade ReviewThis innovative, meticulously researched book sheds new light on the experiences and struggles of poor Afro-descendant women in the United States and Brazil. An example of intersectional research at its best, the analysis uncovers how the interlocking dynamics of gender, race, skin color and poverty simultaneously shape and constrain social policies. Building on a long tradition of comparative scholarship on race in both countries, The Politics of Survival offers a sophisticated and nuanced Black feminist perspective on the gendered racialization of poverty in the Americas. -- Kia Lilly Caldwell, author of Health Equity in Brazil: Intersections of Gender, Race, and PolicyThe Politics of Survival offers a seamless combination of strong theory, sound methodology, and rich empirical evidence. Mitchell-Walthour anchors her analysis in Black feminist theory thereby centering Black women as the main subjects and using an intersectional approach to highlight the complex reality of poor Black women’s lives. -- Ollie A. Johnson III, coeditor of Comparative Racial Politics in Latin AmericaThe Politics of Survival treasures the social vision and economic ethics of poor Black women in Brazil and the United States. Mitchell-Walthour's impeccable research champions the political opinions of poor Black Women about social welfare policies and shows how their leadership is the best path for meeting material needs and activating and sustaining participatory democracy. Mitchell-Walthour surfaces how the global face of misogynoir and shaming poor women has been weaponized to disempower, marginalize, steal wages and family futures, and constrain political parties and policy options over generations. This is precisely how gender politics and race and ethnic politics transform comparative politics and how our research shapes a democratic Black Woman led future. -- Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, author of Waste of a White Skin: The Carnegie Corporation and the Racial Logic of White VulnerabilityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Politics of Survival2. Support of Social Welfare Programs, Stigma, and Resistance3. Perceptions of Class, Skin Color, and Gender Discrimination4. Are Poor Black Women to Blame for Conservative Politicians? Social Welfare Beneficiaries’ Political Knowledge, Voting Preferences, and Religion5. Conclusion: Are Poor Black Women the Hope for Progressive Politics?AppendixNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisGladys L. Mitchell-Walthour offers a comparative analysis of how Black women social welfare beneficiaries in Brazil and the United States defy systems of domination. She argues that poor Black women act as political subjects in the struggle to survive and challenge daily discrimination even in dire circumstances.Trade ReviewThis innovative, meticulously researched book sheds new light on the experiences and struggles of poor Afro-descendant women in the United States and Brazil. An example of intersectional research at its best, the analysis uncovers how the interlocking dynamics of gender, race, skin color and poverty simultaneously shape and constrain social policies. Building on a long tradition of comparative scholarship on race in both countries, The Politics of Survival offers a sophisticated and nuanced Black feminist perspective on the gendered racialization of poverty in the Americas. -- Kia Lilly Caldwell, author of Health Equity in Brazil: Intersections of Gender, Race, and PolicyThe Politics of Survival offers a seamless combination of strong theory, sound methodology, and rich empirical evidence. Mitchell-Walthour anchors her analysis in Black feminist theory thereby centering Black women as the main subjects and using an intersectional approach to highlight the complex reality of poor Black women’s lives. -- Ollie A. Johnson III, coeditor of Comparative Racial Politics in Latin AmericaThe Politics of Survival treasures the social vision and economic ethics of poor Black women in Brazil and the United States. Mitchell-Walthour's impeccable research champions the political opinions of poor Black Women about social welfare policies and shows how their leadership is the best path for meeting material needs and activating and sustaining participatory democracy. Mitchell-Walthour surfaces how the global face of misogynoir and shaming poor women has been weaponized to disempower, marginalize, steal wages and family futures, and constrain political parties and policy options over generations. This is precisely how gender politics and race and ethnic politics transform comparative politics and how our research shapes a democratic Black Woman led future. -- Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, author of Waste of a White Skin: The Carnegie Corporation and the Racial Logic of White VulnerabilityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Politics of Survival2. Support of Social Welfare Programs, Stigma, and Resistance3. Perceptions of Class, Skin Color, and Gender Discrimination4. Are Poor Black Women to Blame for Conservative Politicians? Social Welfare Beneficiaries’ Political Knowledge, Voting Preferences, and Religion5. Conclusion: Are Poor Black Women the Hope for Progressive Politics?AppendixNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Connecting the history of urban renewal policy to the the present debates on immigration, school closings and economic mobility, The Return of the Neighborhood as an Urban Strategy>/i> provides compelling evidence on why neighborhoods are at the center of urban policy solutions."--Susana L. Vasquez, Executive Director, Local Initiatives Support Corporation Chicago"Our neighborhoods are where the rubber meets the road in urban planning and economic growth. At a time when the federal government has never been more hyperpartisan and dysfunctional, our regions, cities, and neighborhoods have become the most critical engines of economic growth. More importantly, our neighborhoods have become the centers of hope for our future. The contributors to this book capture this new reality exceedingly well. It is a must read for those of us working daily to revitalize our cities and neighborhoods and to realize their full potential and promise."--Lee Fisher, President and CEO, CEOs for Cities"Anyone involved in community and regional planning will treasure this collective exploration of neighborhoods and what makes them successful and vibrant. Mike Pagano offers out-of-the-box thinking to planners, decision makers and community and civic leaders who navigate a complex web of systems that converge at the neighborhood level." --MarySue Barrett, President, Metropolitan Planning Council

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Book SynopsisTrade Review”An inspiring message of resilience, hope and triumph for kids raised with painful adversities.”—Hoda Kotb, co-anchor, NBC Today”For those facing the longest odds, First Chance is a riveting journey from troubled homes to college classrooms.”—Robin McGraw, New York Times bestselling author

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Extends the work Birk did in her first book, Fostering on the Farm: Child Placement in the Rural Midwest (2015) . Both books critically examine the institutions and policies that sought to serve vulnerable rural populations. . . . Taken together, this scholarship is essential for anyone interested in understanding how ideas about farming and family shaped the experiences of America's rural poor and marginalized people." --H-Net Reviews"This well-written and researched book is a 'must read' for anyone interested in the role that the poor farm played in welfare strategies for rural Americans." --Kansas History"A well-argued book based on impressive research and organized in a set of well-constructed chapters. It is an impressive contribution to the history of American social welfare systems and to American rural life from 1870s to 1930." --Missouri Historical Review"Informative and thoroughly researched, The Fundamental Institution tells the largely unknown story of America’s poor farms. Megan Birk argues persuasively that white rural poverty was commonplace, and poor farms were an essential part of localized public welfare systems until the 1930s. A valuable study."--Molly Ladd-Taylor, author of Fixing the Poor: Eugenic Sterilization and Child Welfare in the Twentieth CenturyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments viiIntroduction 11 The Founding of Community Institutions 152 Populations and Conditions 463 Farming for the County 744 Poor Farm Women 1045 The Poor Farm and Mental Health Care 1306 Old Age and Poor Farm Residency 1547 Poor Farms and Health Care 1758 Crisis and Transition 198Epilogue 216Appendix 221Notes 223Bibliography 259Index 283

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Book SynopsisWinner of a Silver Medal from the Independent Publisher Book AwardsWon Honorable Mention for 2023 ILHA Book of the Year (International Labor History Association) The iconic leader of one of America's most powerful unions, Harry Bridges put an indelible stamp on the twentieth century labor movement. Robert Cherny's monumental biography tells the life story of the figure who built the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) into a labor powerhouse that still represents almost 30,000 workers. An Australian immigrant, Bridges worked the Pacific Coast docks. His militant unionism placed him at the center of the 1934 West Coast Waterfront Strike and spurred him to expand his organizing activities to warehouse laborers and Hawaiian sugar and pineapple workers. Cherny examines the overall effectiveness of Bridges as a union leader and the decisions and traits that made him effective. Cherny also details the price paid by Bridges as the US government repeatedly prosecuted him for hiTrade Review"In Harry Bridges: Labor Radical, Labor Legend, the culmination of thirty-five years of effort, Robert Cherny provides a majestic biography." --New York Labor History "Allows us to revisit a monumental twentieth-century life. Bridges the man may not be widely known, but his philosophy of inclusive, democratic unionism imbues much of today’s most ambitious organizing campaigns, from Starbucks and Amazon to the teachers’ unions in Chicago and Los Angeles." --New York Review of Books "A detailed account of Bridges’s life and achievements, using not only the extensive government files from his various prosecutions and the ILWU’s voluminous archives but also Bridges’s own papers, a number of interviews with him, and, crucially, CPUSA files in Russian archives. It is unlikely that a more complete story of the man will ever be told." --Commentary Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations From Australia to the San Francisco Docks, 1901-1922 San Francisco Longshoreman, 1922-1929 San Francisco Longshoremen Organize, 1929-May 9, 1934 The Big Strike, May 9 to July 4, 1934 The Big Strike: Bloody Thursday and After, July 5th to the End of 1934 Pursuing Maritime Unity, October 1934-January 1936 Founding the ILWU, 1936-1940 Harry Bridges and the Communist Party in the 1930s: Evidence from the Russian Archives Deport Bridges! 1934-1941 If at First You Don’t Succeed: Deportation, 1940-1945 World War, Labor Peace, 1940-1945 Cold War, Labor War, 1945-1948 Try, Try, Again: Deportation and Expulsion, 1948-1953 The Last Deportation Trial and New Beginnings, 1953-1960 Transforming Longshoring: The M&Ms, 1960-1966 Labor Statesman? 1960-1971 The Longest Strike: Relations with PMA, 1966-1977 Living Legend, 1971-1990 Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisEarly in the twentieth century, maternal and child welfare evolved from a private family responsibility into a matter of national policy. Molly Ladd-Taylor explores both the private and public aspects of child-rearing, using the relationship between them to cast new light on the histories of motherhood, the welfare state, and women's activism in the United States.Ladd-Taylor argues that mother-work, women's unpaid work of reproduction and caregiving, motivated women's public activism and maternalist ideology. Mothering experiences led women to become active in the development of public health, education, and welfare services. In turn, the advent of these services altered mothering in many ways, including the reduction of the infant mortality rate.Trade Review"The essential guide to the politics of motherhood during a crucial period in the history of American women and the incipient welfare state."--Sonya Michel, editor of Mothers of a New World: Maternalist Politics and the Origins of Welfare StatesTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Part 1 Mother-Work at Home 1. The Work of Mothering 17 Part Two Mother-Work in the Community 2. "When the Birds Have Flown the Nest, the Mother-Work May Still Go On", Sentimental Maternalim and the National Congress of Mothers 43 3. "The Welfare of Mothers and Babies Is a Dignified Subject of Political Discussion", Progressive Materinalism and the Children's Bureau 74 4. "How Cruelly Unjust to Handicap All Women", Feminism and the Abandonment of Motherhood Rhetoric 104 Part Three Mothers and the State 5. "Every Mother Has a Right", The Movement for Mothers' Pensions 135 6. "We Mothers Are So Glad the Day Has Come", Mothers' Work and the Sheppard-Towner Act 167 Conclusion 197 Index 207

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Connecting the history of urban renewal policy to the the present debates on immigration, school closings and economic mobility, The Return of the Neighborhood as an Urban Strategy>/i> provides compelling evidence on why neighborhoods are at the center of urban policy solutions."--Susana L. Vasquez, Executive Director, Local Initiatives Support Corporation Chicago"Our neighborhoods are where the rubber meets the road in urban planning and economic growth. At a time when the federal government has never been more hyperpartisan and dysfunctional, our regions, cities, and neighborhoods have become the most critical engines of economic growth. More importantly, our neighborhoods have become the centers of hope for our future. The contributors to this book capture this new reality exceedingly well. It is a must read for those of us working daily to revitalize our cities and neighborhoods and to realize their full potential and promise."--Lee Fisher, President and CEO, CEOs for Cities"Anyone involved in community and regional planning will treasure this collective exploration of neighborhoods and what makes them successful and vibrant. Mike Pagano offers out-of-the-box thinking to planners, decision makers and community and civic leaders who navigate a complex web of systems that converge at the neighborhood level." --MarySue Barrett, President, Metropolitan Planning Council

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"In propulsive prose, Anya Jabour brings to life progressive feminist Sophonisba Breckinridge, whose forty-year career as an advocate for social justice provides a model of 'passionate patience' for progressives in the twenty-first century."--Robyn Muncy, author of Relentless Reformer: Josephine Roche and Progressivism in Twentieth-Century America "A compelling biography that resurrects the life and times of this noteworthy feminist." --Booklist"Anya Jabour has written an outstanding biography of Sophonisba Breckinridge. She has thoroughly convinced me of Breckinridge's important role in American and women's history and how much of each is revealed by her lifelong activism. The research is expansive and the writing is flawless."--Joan M. Johnson, author of Funding Feminism: Monied Women, Philanthropy, and the Women's Movement, 1870–1967

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Book Synopsis Winner of a Silver Medal from the Independent Publisher Book Awards Won Honorable Mention for 2023 ILHA Book of the Year (International Labor History Association) The iconic leader of one of America’s most powerful unions, Harry Bridges put an indelible stamp on the twentieth century labor movement. Robert Cherny’s monumental biography tells the life story of the figure who built the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) into a labor powerhouse that still represents almost 30,000 workers. An Australian immigrant, Bridges worked the Pacific Coast docks. His militant unionism placed him at the center of the 1934 West Coast Waterfront Strike and spurred him to expand his organizing activities to warehouse laborers and Hawaiian sugar and pineapple workers. Cherny examines the overall effectiveness of Bridges as a union leader and the decisions and Trade Review"In Harry Bridges: Labor Radical, Labor Legend, the culmination of thirty-five years of effort, Robert Cherny provides a majestic biography." --New York Labor History"Allows us to revisit a monumental twentieth-century life. Bridges the man may not be widely known, but his philosophy of inclusive, democratic unionism imbues much of today’s most ambitious organizing campaigns, from Starbucks and Amazon to the teachers’ unions in Chicago and Los Angeles." --New York Review of Books ​"A detailed account of Bridges’s life and achievements, using not only the extensive government files from his various prosecutions and the ILWU’s voluminous archives but also Bridges’s own papers, a number of interviews with him, and, crucially, CPUSA files in Russian archives. It is unlikely that a more complete story of the man will ever be told." --Commentary "A must-read for students of 20th Century US History." --Labor History "Cherny's text is about as complete a biography of Bridges as one will find. Politically astute and with a deep understanding of the complexities of labor organizing and union work, the text presents a portrait of a man, his politics, and his steadfast belief in the necessity and potential power of an organized working class. . . . One of the best pictures of labor unionism ever written down." --Counterpunch "Cherny's text is as complete a biography of Bridges as one will find. Politically astute and with a deep understanding of the complexities of labour organizing and union work, the text presents a portrait of a man, his politics, and his steadfast belief in the necessity and potential power of an organized working class. " --Morning Star "A monumental achievement. More than thirty-five years in the making, it is exhaustively researched, gracefully written, and comprehensive. . . . Offers tantalizing details that may surprise even those who already know a great deal about Bridges and the ILWU. . . . It should appeal to everyone interested in Harry Bridges, the history of the ILWU, and the American labor movement in general." --Dispatcher "A deeply researched biography. . . this book will be valuable to readers interested in labor history, maritime history, the history of American communism, and California history." --Choice Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations From Australia to the San Francisco Docks, 1901-1922 San Francisco Longshoreman, 1922-1929 San Francisco Longshoremen Organize, 1929-May 9, 1934 The Big Strike, May 9 to July 4, 1934 The Big Strike: Bloody Thursday and After, July 5th to the End of 1934 Pursuing Maritime Unity, October 1934-January 1936 Founding the ILWU, 1936-1940 Harry Bridges and the Communist Party in the 1930s: Evidence from the Russian Archives Deport Bridges! 1934-1941 If at First You Don’t Succeed: Deportation, 1940-1945 World War, Labor Peace, 1940-1945 Cold War, Labor War, 1945-1948 Try, Try, Again: Deportation and Expulsion, 1948-1953 The Last Deportation Trial and New Beginnings, 1953-1960 Transforming Longshoring: The M&Ms, 1960-1966 Labor Statesman? 1960-1971 The Longest Strike: Relations with PMA, 1966-1977 Living Legend, 1971-1990 Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisExamines a prominent organization for scientific social reform and poor reliefTrade Review[This] study provides a welcome insight into the inner workings of charity organization societies and their drive to eliminate poverty.43.4 2014 * NONPROFIT & VOLUNTARY SEC QTLY *Ruswick's well-researched monograph traces the history of the charity organization society in the US from its origins in the Gilded Age to its merging with social work in the Progressive Era. . . . Recommended. * Choice *Almost Worthy offers a lot of interesting detail pulled from COS case files, professional conference proceedings, journals of the field, and more; some possibly fruitful hypotheses about what to make of changes in COS approaches over time; thoughtful new propositions about the relationship between scientific charity and eugenics (including some charity reformers' apparent remorse); and a fresh, new mini-biography of Oscar McCulloch interspersed throughout. * H-SHGAPE *Brent Ruswick wants to put the science back into scientific charity. He argues that the essence of organized charity was not its class prejudices and censorious attitude toward the poor, but rather its belief that systematic evidence-gathering could serve to improve the quality of charity work and public policy. October 2014 119.4 * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Introduction: Big Moll and the Science of Scientific Charity2. "Armies of Vice": Evolution, Heredity, and the Pauper Menace3. Friendly Visitors or Scientific Investigators? Befriending and Measuring the Poor4. Opposition, Depression, and the Rejection of Pauperism5. "I See No Terrible Army": Environmental Reform and Radicalism in the Scientific Charity Movement6 The Potentially Normal Poor: Professional Social Work, Psychology, and the End of Scientific CharityEpilogueBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisContends that the well- being of low-income Americans is at substantial risk despite economic recoveryTrade ReviewThe Kristin Seefeldt and John Graham primer on the state of America's poor in the wake of the Great Recession of 2007 to 2009 cuts through Beltway theater and provides a clear picture of the magnitude of poverty of the United States as well as the patchwork nature of social services targeting the poor. * Journal of Policy Analysis and Management *All in all, Seefeldt and Graham fulfill their primary goal since they do manage to present a book which can be used as a 'readable [] supplementary text in undergraduate and graduate courses' . . . on poverty and social policy in the U.S. at present. Moreover, precisely because the work offers substantial evidence and thoroughly systematized data about these social phenomena but also provokes questions and debates on these pressing political issues, it may well serve as a guide for future research and may equally prove instrumental in triggering novel responses by both researchers and policy makers. * European Journal of American Studies *Kristen S. Seefeldt and John D. Graham have produced a thorough and enlightening survey of the impact and legacy of the Great Recession on low-income Americans, and the 'safety net' of philanthropic and government programmes on which they rely. . . . [Their] prose remains accessible and readable even whilst negotiating an array of statistics and complex layers of state and federal government programmes. * Journal of American Studies *Table of ContentsForeword by Tavis SmileyIntroduction1. The Great Recession: Definition, Duration, and Impact2. The Impact of the Great Recession on Poverty in America3. The Performance of America's Safety Net4. Risks to the Safety Net in the Aftermath of the Great Recession5. Policy Options in a Politically Polarized Environment

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Book SynopsisKatalin Fábián is Associate Professor in the Department of Government and Law at Lafayette College. She edited Domestic Violence in Postcommunist States: Local Activism, National Policies, and Global Forces (IUP).Elzbieta Korolczuk is Researcher in the Department of Sociology and Work Science at the University of Gothenburg and the School of Culture and Education at Södertörn University, Sweden. She is co-editor of several Polish volumes on parenthood and politics.Trade ReviewThe editors and individual authors have done a masterful job creating a critical framework for the study of civil society and grassroots activism in the postcommunist period, and this volume should be an important starting point for students and scholars looking to advance this topic further. * Women East-West *Bringing together 11 case studies that encompass Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Bulgaria, Ukraine, the Baltics and Russia, this volume challenges us to think differently about civil society, masculinity, parenting, biological citizenship and the relevance of the label 'post-communist' studies. * Europe-Asia Studies *Extensively researched, with a very solid literature review tosupport and explain the positions of the editors and the volume'scontributors and how their research differs from and builds on existingscholarship, this volume will be an important addition not only to anyuniversity library collection but also a valuable reading both forscholars researching the impact of globalization on gender and civilsociety and for any undergraduate or graduate course dealing not onlywith Central and Eastern Europe but gender studies in general. * Hungarian Studies Review *A thought provoking, timely and highly relevant collection. * Hungarian Cultural Studies *These valuable case studies show how initially amorphous groups can be empowered by finding or being given greater cultural, financial, or political footing. * Slavic Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Rebellious Parents in Central-Eastern Europe and Russia / Katalin Fabian and Elzbieta Korolczuk1. Nationalism and Civicness in Contemporary Russia: Grassroots Mobilization in Defense of Traditional Family Values / Tova Hojdestrand2. "For the Sake of Our Children's Future": A Conservative Parents' Mobilization in Ukraine / Olena Strelnyk3. (Un)deserving Parents: Constructing Parenthood and Nation in Bulgaria through New Reproductive Technologies / Ina Dimitrova4. In the Name of the Family and Nation: Framing Fathers' Activism in Poland / Elzbieta Korolczuk and Renata E. Hryciuk5. Civil Society and Fatherhood in the Borderlands: Promoting Active Fathers in Russian Daddy-Schools / Pelle Aberg and Johnny Rodin6. Fathers' Activism in Contemporary Ukraine: Contradictory Positions on Gender Equality / Iman Karzabi7. Down and Out in a "Femo-Fascist" State: the Czech Fathers' Discussion Forum / Steven Saxonberg 8. Resisting Mandatory Vaccination: the Formation of the "Informed Parent" in the Czech Republic / Jaroslava Hasmanova Marhankova9. From Tired Parents to NGO Advocacy for Children with Intellectual Disabilities: The Case of the Baltic States / Egle Sumskiene10. The Natural Childbirth Movement in the Czech Republic / Ema Hresanova11. Parents Rebelling against the State: Emotions and Images in the Hungarian Home-Birth Movement / Katalin Fabian12. Regional and Theoretical Lessons: New Perspectives on Civil Societies and Ambiguities toward the State, the West, and Gender Equality / Katalin Fabian and Elzbieta KorolczukIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe editors and individual authors have done a masterful job creating a critical framework for the study of civil society and grassroots activism in the postcommunist period, and this volume should be an important starting point for students and scholars looking to advance this topic further. * Women East-West *Bringing together 11 case studies that encompass Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Bulgaria, Ukraine, the Baltics and Russia, this volume challenges us to think differently about civil society, masculinity, parenting, biological citizenship and the relevance of the label 'post-communist' studies. * Europe-Asia Studies *Extensively researched, with a very solid literature review tosupport and explain the positions of the editors and the volume'scontributors and how their research differs from and builds on existingscholarship, this volume will be an important addition not only to anyuniversity library collection but also a valuable reading both forscholars researching the impact of globalization on gender and civilsociety and for any undergraduate or graduate course dealing not onlywith Central and Eastern Europe but gender studies in general. * Hungarian Studies Review *A thought provoking, timely and highly relevant collection. * Hungarian Cultural Studies *These valuable case studies show how initially amorphous groups can be empowered by finding or being given greater cultural, financial, or political footing. * Slavic Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Rebellious Parents in Central-Eastern Europe and Russia / Katalin Fabian and Elzbieta Korolczuk1. Nationalism and Civicness in Contemporary Russia: Grassroots Mobilization in Defense of Traditional Family Values / Tova Hojdestrand2. "For the Sake of Our Children's Future": A Conservative Parents' Mobilization in Ukraine / Olena Strelnyk3. (Un)deserving Parents: Constructing Parenthood and Nation in Bulgaria through New Reproductive Technologies / Ina Dimitrova4. In the Name of the Family and Nation: Framing Fathers' Activism in Poland / Elzbieta Korolczuk and Renata E. Hryciuk5. Civil Society and Fatherhood in the Borderlands: Promoting Active Fathers in Russian Daddy-Schools / Pelle Aberg and Johnny Rodin6. Fathers' Activism in Contemporary Ukraine: Contradictory Positions on Gender Equality / Iman Karzabi7. Down and Out in a "Femo-Fascist" State: the Czech Fathers' Discussion Forum / Steven Saxonberg 8. Resisting Mandatory Vaccination: the Formation of the "Informed Parent" in the Czech Republic / Jaroslava Hasmanova Marhankova9. From Tired Parents to NGO Advocacy for Children with Intellectual Disabilities: The Case of the Baltic States / Egle Sumskiene10. The Natural Childbirth Movement in the Czech Republic / Ema Hresanova11. Parents Rebelling against the State: Emotions and Images in the Hungarian Home-Birth Movement / Katalin Fabian12. Regional and Theoretical Lessons: New Perspectives on Civil Societies and Ambiguities toward the State, the West, and Gender Equality / Katalin Fabian and Elzbieta KorolczukIndex

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Book SynopsisA work of intellectual and spiritual history which explores the religious vision and life's work of Dorothy Day, co-founder, with Peter Maurin, of the ""Catholic Worker"" and the movement of the same name. Day is widely acclaimed as a pioneer of American social Catholicism.Trade Review"Influenced by many sources and people, including the Bible, the Rule of St. Benedict, Jacques Maritain, and Thomas Merton, Day lived a life of work and prayer in service of the poor. Merriman uses archival sources, correspondence, and interviews to study the effect of these influences on Day's spirituality and her response to the social, economic, and spiritual turmoil in the mid-20th century United States. A dynamic supplement to her life, this scholarly but accessible study does justice to Day and the Catholic Worker movement." —Library Journal"...well-written, extensively researched, and illuminating..." —Commonweal"Brigid Merriman's concentration on Dorothy Day's spirituality gives a much deeper insight into her spiritual roots than have previous writers." —Pastoral Life "Merriman places Dorothy Day in the larger perspective of Catholic thought and history and has done a fine job of sifting through an enormous amount of information." —Catholic New Times

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Three major contributions of Hall’s study stand out. First, it challenges the trope of the violent anarchist, and explains anarcho-syndicalism and anarchist communism, appealing to Fox and others who valued the power of organized workers. Second, it highlights activists’ logistical work to keep organizations and publications afloat. Volunteer labor, problem-solving, failure, and redirection are part of such struggle. Third, the book underscores the power of writing as a vehicle for making sense of the world, for oneself and others. Fox demonstrated that in his correspondence and articles, and Hall does so in his approach. His research is impressive, and he excels in framing a quote to integrate it into an argument." * Pacific Historical Review *

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Book SynopsisJay Fox (18701961) was a journalist, intellectual, and labor militant whose influence rippled across the country. In Writing Labor's Emancipation, historian Greg Hall traces Fox's unorthodox life to highlight the shifting dynamics in US labor radicalism from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century. Radicalized as a teenager after witnessing the Haymarket tragedy, Fox embarked on a lifetime of union organizing, building anarchist communities (including Home, Washington), and writing. Thanks to his sharp wit, he became an influential voice, often in dialogue with fellow anarchists such as Emma Goldman and Lucy Parsons. Hall both explores Fox's life and shines a light on the utopians, revolutionaries, and union men and women with whom Fox associated and debated. Hall's research provides valuable knowledge of the lived experiences of working-class Americans and reveals alternative visions for activism and social change.Trade Review"Three major contributions of Hall’s study stand out. First, it challenges the trope of the violent anarchist, and explains anarcho-syndicalism and anarchist communism, appealing to Fox and others who valued the power of organized workers. Second, it highlights activists’ logistical work to keep organizations and publications afloat. Volunteer labor, problem-solving, failure, and redirection are part of such struggle. Third, the book underscores the power of writing as a vehicle for making sense of the world, for oneself and others. Fox demonstrated that in his correspondence and articles, and Hall does so in his approach. His research is impressive, and he excels in framing a quote to integrate it into an argument." * Pacific Historical Review *

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Book SynopsisTHE DEFINITIVE RESOURCE ON MIDLIFE DEVELOPMENT Edited by Margie Lachman, a leader in the field, Handbook of Midlife Development provides an up-to-date portrayal of human development during the middle years of the life span.Table of ContentsFRAMEWORKS AND CONTEXTS. A View on Midlife Development from Life-Span Theory (U. Staudinger& S. Bluck). Middle Adulthood in Cultural Perspectives: The Imagined and theExperienced in Three Cultures (U. Menon). BIOMEDICAL ASPECTS. Towards a Biology of Middle Age (C. Finch). The Physical Aging Process in Midlife: Interactions withPsychological and Sociocultural Factors (S. Whitbourne). Health in Midlife: Toward a Life-Span View (A. Spiro). Stress, Coping, and Health at Midlife: A Developmental Perspective(C. Aldwin & M. Levenson). PSYCHOLOGICAL PROCESSES. The Development of Intelligence at Midlife (R. Sternberg, et al.). Memory in Midlife (R. Dixon, et al.). Personality and the Self in Midlife (M. Lachman & R.Bertrand). Emotional Development During the Middle Years (C. Magai & B.Halpern). Adaptation and Resilience in Midlife (J. Heckhausen). Generativity in Midlife (D. McAdams). SOCIAL FACTORS. The Role of Work in Midlife (H. Sterns & M. Huyck). Moving into Retirement: Preparation and Transitions in LateMidlife (J. Kim & P. Moen). Families, Intergenerational Relationships, and Kinkeeping inMidlife (N. Putney & V. Bengtson). Dynamics of Social Relationships in Midlife (T. Antonucci, etal.). Author Index. Subject Index.

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Book SynopsisThe 2003 edition of Cops, Teachers, Counselors has become one of the more visible books in this field of research. It was based on NSF-supported field research in two US states and five different agencies. This new edition wraps an expanded theoretical framing around the original chapters.Table of Contents List of Stories Foreword Acknowledgments for the First Edition Acknowledgments for the New Edition Part 1. Two Narratives of Street-Level Work 1. Dealing with Faces 2. State Agents, Citizen Agents 3. Story Worlds, Narratives, and Research 4. Physical and Emotional Spaces Part II. Enacting Identities in the Workplace and on the Streets 5. Workers Unite: Occupational Identities and Peer Relations 6. Organizational and Social Divisions among Street-Level Workers 7. Putting a Fix on People: Identity, Conduct, and Street-Level Work Part III. Normative Decision Making: Moralities over Legalities 8. Who Are the Worthy? 9. Responding to the Worthy 10. Street-Level Worker Knows Best 11. Getting the Bad Guys 12. Streetwise Workers and the Power of Storytelling Part IV. Reframing Frontline Inquiry 13. Encounters, Agency, and Pragmatism 14. Three Narratives: Citizen-Agent, State-Agent, Knowledge Agent Afterword Appendix A. Methodology Appendix B. Entry Interview Appendix C. Questionnaire and Exit Interview Appendix D. Story Cover Page Appendix E. Story Codes Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisCollects the author's writings from 1988 to 2009 on anthropology, epidemiology, health care for the global poor, and international public health policy, providing an overview of his work. This work demonstrates how, over time, he has fundamentally changed the way we think about health, international aid, and social justice.Trade Review"A crucially important book for physicians." Jama "[Farmer] brings an energized yet pragmatic passion to an enduring problem in global health." Practical Matters "Highly engaging and intellectually satisfying." -- Mark A. Strand Perspectives In Science And Christian FaithTable of ContentsContents Foreword: He Stole My Necktie for the Poor Tracy Kidder Introduction: The Right to Claim Rights 1 Haun Saussy Part 1. Ethnography, History, Political Economy Introduction to Part 1 Paul Farmer 1. Bad Blood, Spoiled Milk: Bodily Fluids as Moral Barometers in Rural Haiti (1988) 2. Sending Sickness: Sorcery, Politics, and Changing Concepts of AIDS in Rural Haiti (1990) 3. The Exotic and the Mundane: Human Immunodeficiency Virus in Haiti (1990) 4. Ethnography, Social Analysis, and the Prevention of Sexually Transmitted HIV Infection among Poor Women in Haiti (1997) 5. From Haiti to Rwanda: AIDS and Accusations (2006) Part 2. Anthropology amid Epidemics Introduction to Part 2 Paul Farmer 6. Rethinking "Emerging Infectious Diseases" (1996, 1999) 7. Social Scientists and the New Tuberculosis (1997) 8. Optimism and Pessimism in Tuberculosis Control: Lessons from Rural Haiti (1999) 9. Cruel and Unusual: Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis as Punishment (1999) 10. The Consumption of the Poor: Tuberculosis in the Twenty-First Century (2) 11. Social Medicine and the Challenge of Biosocial Research (2) 12. The Major Infectious Diseases in the World--To Treat or Not to Treat? (2001) 13. Integrated HIV Prevention and Care Strengthens Primary Health Care (2004) David A. Walton, Paul Farmer, Wesler Lambert, Fernet Leandre, Serena P. Koenig, and Joia Mukherjee 14. AIDS in 2006--Moving toward One World, One Hope? (2006) Jim Yong Kim and Paul Farmer Part 3. Structural Violence Introduction to Part 3 Paul Farmer 15. Women, Poverty, and AIDS (1996) 16. On Suffering and Structural Violence: Social and Economic Rights in the Global Era (1996, 2003) 17. An Anthropology of Structural Violence (2001, 2004) 18. Structural Violence and Clinical Medicine (2006) Paul Farmer, Bruce Nizeye, Sara Stulac, and Salmaan Keshavjee 19. Mother Courage and the Costs of War (2008) 20. "Landmine Boy" and Stupid Deaths (2008) Part 4. Human Rights and a Critique of Medical Ethics Introduction to Part 4 Paul Farmer 21. Rethinking Health and Human Rights: Time for a Paradigm Shift (1999, 2003) 22. Rethinking Medical Ethics: A View from Below (2004) Paul Farmer and Nicole Gastineau Campos 23. Never Again? Reflections on Human Values and Human Rights (2005) 24. Rich World, Poor World: Medical Ethics and Global Inequality (2006) 25. Making Human Rights Substantial (2008) Conclusion: An Interview (2009) Paul Farmer and Haun Saussy Acknowledgments Works Cited Editorial Note and Credits Index

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Book SynopsisThis indispensable guide to the Affordable Care Act, our new national health care law, lends an insider's deep understanding of policy to a lively and absorbing account of the extraordinary--and extraordinarily ambitious--legislative effort to reform the nation's health care system. Dr. John E. McDonough, DPH, a health policy expert who served as an advisor to the late Senator Edward Kennedy, provides a vivid picture of the intense effort required to bring this legislation into law. McDonough clearly explains the ACA's inner workings, revealing the rich landscape of the issues, policies, and controversies embedded in the law yet unknown to most Americans. In his account of these historic events, McDonough takes us through the process from the 2008 presidential campaign to the moment in 2010 when President Obama signed the bill into law. At a time when the nation is taking a second look at the ACA, Inside National Health Reform provides the essential information for Americans to make informed judgments about this landmark law.Trade Review"Superb... Likely to become required reading for anyone who wishes (or claims) to understand health care in the United States." -- Rick Mayes Health Affairs "Read McDonough's book." The Incidental Economist "McDonough has done the hard work of breaking a large and historic piece of legislation down into a sober, balanced, thorough, readable, and important book. Recommended." -- Dick Maxwell Library Journal "Admirably clear ... provides the best explanation available, which occupies most of his book, of the many individual components of the ten titles of the final act." -- Jeff Madrick New York Review Of Books "Unique... Offers a perspective available to few others... Accessible, highly informative, and well worth [the reader's] time." -- Paul Van de Water, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities World Medical & Health Policy JrnlTable of ContentsList of Tables Foreword by Carmen Hooker Odom and Samuel L. Milbank Preface Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction—A Meeting in Minnesota Part I. Preludes and Process 1. The Knowledge Base—Why National Health Reform? 2. Social Strategy—Massachusetts Avenue 3. Political Will I—Prelude to a Health Reform Campaign 4. Political Will II—A Health Reform Campaign Part II. Policies—Ten Titles 5. Title I—The Three Legged Stool 6. Title II—Medicaid, CHIP, and the Governors 7. Title III—Medical Care, Medicare, and the Cost Curve 8. Title IV—Money, Mammograms, and Menus 9. Title V—Who Will Provide the Care? 10. Title VI—The Stew 11. Title VII—Biosimilar Biological Products 12. Title VIII—CLASS Act 13. Title IX—Paying for the ACA (or about Half of It) 14. Title X Plus—The Manager’s Amendment and the Health Care Education and Reconciliation Act Conclusion Notes Health Reform Timeline Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Makes a convincing argument that reproductive labor is at the heart of all public conversation and policy over the past several decades. . . . She manages to pull off this extensive examination in just 212 pages, using language that is accessible to those who are new to the material, while also creating crucial new understanding for those who consider themselves informed on gender and politics and/or people who are examining ways to use public policies to create change as part of broader justice movements." * Rewire *"Offers readers a way to understand how neoliberalism’s solutions run absolutely counter to social needs." * Against the Current *"This engaging book covers feminist theory and how it views a divergence of issues since the 1970s. Excellent for collections on feminism, current affairs, and American politics." * Choice *"Briggs concludes dramatically that 'in the US . . . there is no outside to reproductive politics.' Until governments and business pay attention to this, the crises of our time will only deepen—and not just in the US." * Times Higher Education Supplement *“Offers readers a way to understand how neoliberalism’s solutions run absolutely counter to social needs.” * In These Times *"Makes a clear and significant contribution to our understandings of reproductive politics." * Gender and Society *"Briggs handles complex politics clearly and straightforwardly. Her text is well-suited for academics and activists alike." * RGWS: A Feminist Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. “Radical Feminism’s Misogynistic Crusade” or the Conservative Tax Revolt? 2. Welfare Reform: The Vicious Campaign to Reform 1 Percent of the Budget 3. Offshoring Reproduction 4. The Politics and Economy of Reproductive Technology and Black Infant Mortality 5. Gay Married, with Children Epilogue: The Subprime Notes Index

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Book SynopsisBased on years of fieldwork, this book offers poignant stories of how obesity is lived and experienced by Guatemalans who have recently found their diets - and their bodies - radically transformed. It is suitable for anyone who cares about the politics of healthy eating.Trade Review"Yates-Doerr's book offers wise counsel... an excellent indictment of nutritionism." -- Raj Patel "She convincingly argues there is an element of race-making in the talk around fat and the pathologization of certain lifestyles." Medical Anthology Quarterly "The richness of the book lies in its attention to detail. Emily demonstrates a lovely care for language throughout, showing how specific words are not just embedded in but elicit social contexts." -- Rebeca Ibanez Martin Somatosphere "In the short few weeks that I have had [Weight of Obesity] on my desk, I have come to consider it as a text to think with, an approach to learn from, and material to teach. The text will inform my own practices as an anthropologist, a science studies body, a teacher, and-on a good day-a writer. Just to wrap up my praise: like very few others, this text accomplishes what any book should: it makes one live with it, through it, and see the world through its eyes. If a book has eyes, that is-and of course, not to over-privilege the visual among the senses." -- Marianne de Laet Somatosphere "The Weight of Obesity offers a plethora of wide-ranging ideas that emerge powerfully from an ethnography that is subtly grounded on the rupture of political change and the inequities of a global political economy." -- Simon Cohn Somatosphere "The Weight of Obesity is a wonderful book. It is a book that invites the reader to read aloud brilliant insights and moving, sometimes truly piercing observations. The book contrasts myriads of local intricacies with the global health attempts at 'treating obesity'. The book links eating practices to such heterogeneous things as pesticides, traditional social obligations of food preparation, the workings of bodies, global politics and hunger, fortified sugar, the beauty of fatness, and racism. This is done with great sensitivity for the particular ways the language of her informants frames practices of eating, health, and happiness. The book is rica, the Guatemalan word for delicious, tasteful, rich." -- Jeannette Pols SomatosphereTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Map Introduction: The Richness of Eating 1. Disease and Modernities 2. Nutritional Black-Boxing 3. Care of the Social 4. Contemporary Body Counts 5. Bodies in Balance 6. Many Values of Health Conclusion: The Opposite of ObesityNotes References Index

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Book SynopsisToday all politics are reproductive politics, argues esteemed feminist critic Laura Briggs. From longer work hours to the election of Donald Trump, our current political crisis is above all about reproduction.Households are where we face our economic realitiesas social safety nets get cut and wages decline. Briggs brilliantly outlines how politicians' racist accounts of reproductionstories of Black welfare queens and Latina breeding machineswere the leading wedge in the government and business disinvestment in families. With decreasing wages, rising McJobs, and no resources for family care, our households have grown ever more precarious over the past forty years in sharply race-and class-stratified ways. This crisis, argues Briggs, fuels all othersfrom immigration to gay marriage, anti-feminism to the rise of the Tea Party.Trade Review"Makes a convincing argument that reproductive labor is at the heart of all public conversation and policy over the past several decades. . . . She manages to pull off this extensive examination in just 212 pages, using language that is accessible to those who are new to the material, while also creating crucial new understanding for those who consider themselves informed on gender and politics and/or people who are examining ways to use public policies to create change as part of broader justice movements." * Rewire *"Offers readers a way to understand how neoliberalism’s solutions run absolutely counter to social needs." * Against the Current *"This engaging book covers feminist theory and how it views a divergence of issues since the 1970s. Excellent for collections on feminism, current affairs, and American politics." * Choice *"Briggs concludes dramatically that 'in the US . . . there is no outside to reproductive politics.' Until governments and business pay attention to this, the crises of our time will only deepen—and not just in the US." * Times Higher Education Supplement *“Offers readers a way to understand how neoliberalism’s solutions run absolutely counter to social needs.” * In These Times *"Makes a clear and significant contribution to our understandings of reproductive politics." * Gender and Society *"Briggs handles complex politics clearly and straightforwardly. Her text is well-suited for academics and activists alike." * RGWS: A Feminist Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. “Radical Feminism’s Misogynistic Crusade” or the Conservative Tax Revolt? 2. Welfare Reform: The Vicious Campaign to Reform 1 Percent of the Budget 3. Offshoring Reproduction 4. The Politics and Economy of Reproductive Technology and Black Infant Mortality 5. Gay Married, with Children Epilogue: The Subprime Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Stunning analysis of the Emergency Medical System (EMS), its frontline workers, and patients . . . . A great source for highlighting how well-intentioned labor processes within seemingly benevolent occupations can further marginalize people and reproduce social inequalities." * British Medical Journal, Medical Humanities *"An exemplar of a kind of ethnographic work that reinvigorates the sociological imagination, connecting the deeply felt personal troubles of patients and the daily joys and frustrations of ambulance crews with the stratification of suffering in urban America." * Symbolic Interaction *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Author’s Note Acknowledgments Introduction PART I BANDAGING BODIES: INSIDE THE AMBULANCE 1. People Work 2. Ditch Doctors and Taxi Drivers 3. Feeling the Ambulance PART II SORTING BODIES: THE AMBULANCE BETWEEN HOSPITALS AND SQUAD CARS 4. The Fix-Up Workers 5. The Cleanup Workers 6. Burden Shuffling PART III HUSTING BODIES: THE AMBULANCE UNDERNEATH BUREAUCRACY AND CAPITAL 7. The Barn 8. Supervision 9. Payback Conclusion Appendix: Notes on Data and Methods Notes Reference List Index

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Book SynopsisTrapped in a Maze provides a window into families'lived experiences in poverty by looking at their complex interactions with institutions such as welfare, hospitals, courts, housing, and schools. Families are more intertwined with institutions than ever as they struggle to maintain their eligibility for services and face the possibility that involvement with one institution could trigger other types of institutional oversight. Many poor families find themselves trapped in a multi-institutional maze, stuck in between several systems with no clear path to resolution. Tracing the complex and often unpredictable journeys of families in this maze, this book reveals how the formal rationality by which these institutions ostensibly operate undercuts what they can actually achieve. And worse, it demonstrates how involvement with multiple institutions can perpetuate the conditions of poverty that these families are fighting to escape.Trade Review"In this concise, excellent book, Leslie Paik demonstrates how these institutions, while intended to support poor families, instead trap them deeper in poverty." * American Journal of Sociology *

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Book SynopsisTrapped in a Maze provides a window into families'lived experiences in poverty by looking at their complex interactions with institutions such as welfare, hospitals, courts, housing, and schools. Families are more intertwined with institutions than ever as they struggle to maintain their eligibility for services and face the possibility that involvement with one institution could trigger other types of institutional oversight. Many poor families find themselves trapped in a multi-institutional maze, stuck in between several systems with no clear path to resolution. Tracing the complex and often unpredictable journeys of families in this maze, this book reveals how the formal rationality by which these institutions ostensibly operate undercuts what they can actually achieve. And worse, it demonstrates how involvement with multiple institutions can perpetuate the conditions of poverty that these families are fighting to escape.Trade Review"In this concise, excellent book, Leslie Paik demonstrates how these institutions, while intended to support poor families, instead trap them deeper in poverty." * American Journal of Sociology *

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Book SynopsisThis student text introduces the main themes and issues of social policy. By examining a variety of social topics, such as leisure, work, media and information technology, the book explores the nature of inequality and the impact of social policy. It then considers the future for social policy.Table of ContentsList of Figures. List of Tables. Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. Social Policy and Social Change. 2. Communicating. 3. Viewing. 4. Travelling. 5. Shopping. 6. Working. 7. Playing. 8. Consumers or Citizens?. Glossary. Index.

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Book Synopsisaeo First systematic attempt to link planning and geography with social justice as developed in moral and political philosophy. aeo Bridges the gap between abstract theory and practical action. aeo Shows how the geographical dimension of justice can resolve issues of universal standards and behaviour.Trade Review"In this intelligent and caring text, there is a timely and powerful case for geographers to engage with the world of moral problems." Geography "As a survey of both theoretical and empirical material, Geography and Social Justice will be a valuable classroom text for upper-level undergraduate and introductory graduate courses in human geography." Annals of the AAG "I consider Smith's book a major advance because it examines and integrates conceptual and theoretical issues from related disciplines and because the case studies illustrate the spatial and social dynamics of injustice in various societies ... It is important for geographers to build bridges to other disciplines and to demonstrate that our methodologies, conceptual thinking, and perspectives will help us search for common ground. Smith's book does this and does it well ... I strongly recommend the book to those inside and outside geography with interests in this emerging transdisciplinary area of interest." Journal of GeographyTable of ContentsList of Figures. List of Tables. Preface. Acknowlegements. 1. Introduction: The Return of Social Justice. Scientific and Moral Perspectives. Ethics, Morality and Social Justice in Geography. The Changing World. The Text. Part I: Theory:. 2. Elements of Justice. The Concept of Justice. Ethics and Morality. Rights. Membership. Space. Time. Inequality and Difference. 3. Theories of Social Justice:. (i) Mainstream. Egalitarianism. Utilitarianism. Libertarianism. Contractarianism. 4. Theories of Social Justice: (ii) Reaction. Marxism. Communitarianism. Feminism. 5. Returning to Equality: Justice as Equalization. Social Justice as Equalization. Minimum Standards. From Needs to Well-being. Producing Well-being. Measuring inequality and Equalization. Returning to Geography. Part II: Case Studies:. 6. Inequality in the United States City: What Price the American Dream?. The Question of Scale. Inequality in Atlanta, Georgia. The Political Economy of Disequalization in Atlanta. Some other Cities. The Enduring American Dilemma. Epilogue. 7. Inequality in the East European City. The City under Socialism. Equalization and Disequalization in Moscow. Some other Cities. Distribution under socialism. Social Justice after Socialism. Epilogue. 8. South Africa after Apartheid. The aparthied legacy. The Land Question. Redistribution for Equalization. Social Justice after Apartheid. Epilogue. 9. Territory, Community and Home. Community Destruction in South Africa. Erasing the Jewish Ghetto. Resettlement in Palestine. Displacement by Market Forces. Loss of Place. Epilogue. 10. Conclusion: Returning to Social Justice. Market (in)justice. Egalitarian Social Justice. The Possibility of Universals. Social Justice and Geography. Bibliography. Further Reading. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis is a rich collection of contemporary perspectives on how culture is produced and commodified using current examples from music, television, magazines, sports, and advertising. Incorporating a variety of theoretical frameworks, the book addresses, in addition, issues of social and cultural diversity in readings by key scholars that are accessible and provocative for both students and academics.Trade Review"In putting together a reader on Hustler, football hooligans, hip-hop, soap operas, and Dolly Parton, Harrington and Bielby demonstrate excellent taste. If you find that statement improbable, you will expand your horizons by taking a look at the superb scholarship contained in this collection. If, on the other hand, you think it perfectly plausible, you will use this book anyway to teach your courses, to guide your research, and to deepen your understanding of the cultural seas in which we all swim." Wendy Griswold, Northwestern University "This book is a most welcome addition to the field of media studies. Harrington and Bielby have chosen wisely by including a range of historical and more contemporary pieces that explore the production-consumption nexus in fresh and innovative ways. Art, music, prime-time television, movies, sports, video games, urban landscapes, all of this and more, will lead students and scholars alike to think comparatively about popular culture." Ron Lembo, Amherst CollegeTable of ContentsList of Contributors. Acknowledgments. 1. Constructing the Popular: Cultural Production and Consumption: C. Lee Harrington and Denise D. Bielby. Part I: What is Popular?:. 2. Making Artistic Music Popular Music: The Goal of True Folk: John Blacking. 3. Batman, Deviance, and Camp: Andy Medhurst. 4. Take Me Out to the Ball Game: The Transformation of Production-Consumption. Relations in Professional Team Sport: Kimberly S. Schimmel. 5. Art Appreciation at Caesar's Palace: Mel McCombie. Part II: Cultural Production/Commodification:. 6. Art as Collection Action: Howard S. Becker. 7. Commodity Lesbianism: Danae Clark. 8. Alternative to What?: Tom Frank. 9. Imagineering the Inner City?: Landscapes of Pleasure and the Commodification of Cultural Spetacle in the Postmodern City: Scott Salmon. Part III: Taste, Reception, and Resistance: . 10. Encoding/Decoding:. Stuart Hall. 11. (Male) Desire and (Female) Disgust: Reading Hustler: Laura Kipnis. 12. Hang Up My Rock and Roll Shoes: The Cultural Production of Rock and Roll: Harris Friedberg. 13. Site Reading?: Globalization, Identity and the Consumption of Place in Popular Music: Minelle Mahtani and Scott Salmon. 14. Diasporic Noise: History, Hip Hop, and the Post-colonial Politics of Sound: George Lipsitz. Part IV: Authoring Texts/Readers Reading: . 15. The Concept of Formula in the Study of Popular Literature: John G. Cawelti. 16. The Task of the Translator: An Introduction to the Translation of Baudelaire's Tableux Parisien: Walter Benjamin. 17. Intertextuality: John Fiske. 18. On Reading Soaps: A Semiotic Primer: Robert C. Allen. 19. Don't Have to DJ No More: Sampling and the "Autonomous" Creator: David Sanjek. Part V: Celebrity and Fandom:. 20. The Assembly Line of Greatness: Celebrity in Twentieth-Century America: Joshua Gamson. 21. Mountains of Contradictions: Gender, Class, and Region in the Star Image of Dolly Parton: Pamela Wilson. 22. Fandom as Pathology: Joli Jenson. 23. Scottish Fans, not English Hooligans! Scots, Scottishness, and Scottish Football: Gary P. T. Finn and Richard Giulianotti. Index.

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Book SynopsisExamines the emergence of private, work-based benefits; the uniquely American pursuit of "social insurance"; the influence of race and gender on the health care debate; and the confrontation between reformers and powerful economic and health interests.Trade Review"This is a sophisticated, impassioned, and well-documented analysis of the failures of twentieth-century American health reform efforts."--David Rosner, Business History Review "[A] brilliantly recounted, thoughtful, and persuasive argument, not for simple explanations, but for a complex, on-the-ground discussion of what it was in the United States that made universal health insurance 'dead on arrival.'... [This book] is impeccably and impressively researched, drawing extensively on governmental and private archives."--Rosemary A. Stevens, Bulletin of the History of Medicine "Another autopsy of the failure to implement a US national health plan? Yes, but Dead on Arrival is more interesting, informative, and compelling than others. Its strength lies in the integration of multiple social, economic, and political perspectives within a historical context to address the question, why no national health insurance?"--Bernard S. Bloom, Journal of the American Medical Association "A welcome addition to a large literature on the modern United States medical system... [It] illuminates the political deadlock and the institutional rigidity of the American system and offers a cogent explanation for why reform has been so intractable in health care throughout the last hundred years."--Declan O'Reilly, Enterprise & Society "A treasure trove of information for anyone seriously wishing to tackle this issue."--Tom Gallagher, San Francisco Bay Guardian "At a time of renewed popular and scholarly debate over America's exceptional welfare state, students of American public affairs will find much of value in Gordon's timely book."--Jacob S. Hacker, Political Science QuarterlyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Abbreviations xi Introduction: Why No National Health Insurance in the United States? 1 1. The Political Economy of American Health Care: An Overview, 1910-2000 12 2. Bargaining for Health: Private Health Insurance and Public Policy 46 3. Between Contract and Charity: Health Care and the Dilemmas of Social Insurance 90 4. Socialized Medicine and Other Afflictions: The Political Culture of the Health Debate 136 5. Health Care in Black and White: Race, Region, and Health Politics 172 6. Private Interests and Public Policy: Health Care's Corporate Compromise 210 7. Silenced Majority: American Politics and the Dilemmas of Health Reform 261 Conclusion: The Past and Future of Health Politics 297 Archival Sources 303 Index 307

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Book SynopsisTells how Brazil, against all odds, became the first developing country to universalize access to life-saving AIDS therapies - a breakthrough made possible by an unexpected alliance of activists, government reformers, development agencies, and the pharmaceutical industry.Trade ReviewJoint Winner of the 2008 Wellcome Medal for Medical Anthropology, Royal Anthropological Institute and the Wellcome Trust Winner of the 2008 Diana Forsythe Prize, American Anthropological Association "Biehl's powerful ethnography beautifully mixes visual and written portraits of those who lived and died as Brazil developed its public health and policy responses to AIDS. The author gives voice to those at the margins--the poor, the homeless, homosexuals, drug addicts, transvestites, prostitutes--who remained stigmatized and invisible as Brazil universalized access to AIDS therapies... Biehl convincingly argues the importance of understanding the history and politics of AIDS pharmaceuticalization, the role of social mobilization, and the invisibility of the marginalized in official statistics and care in grasping the reality of AIDS in Brazil."--E.J. Schatz, Choice "In Will to Live, Joao Biehl combines critical public health, ethnography, and even a mini epidemiological survey, studying AIDS therapies up, down, and sideways... The running commentary from major decision-makers in the novel Brazilian approach to AIDS provides both insights and rather transparent post facto justifications for the state's regulatory practices. These are nicely complemented by activist and patient critiques throughout the text."--Matthew Gutmann, American Ethnologist "Biehl's ethnography is already a paradigmatic example of how transformations in subjectivities and social experience can be investigated at all levels: personal, social, political, and global. The book is also exceptional, while describing in fruitful ways, complex interconnections that might occur within and across levels of lived experience... I strongly recommend this book to all those interested in pursuing anthropological investigations emphasizing the conceptual significance of lived experience through 'experience-near' analyses and 'thick description.'"--Cristina Redko, Ethos "[Joao Biehl's] book is important for understanding a complex public health program in a developing country. It is well written; the chapter that contains patients' testimonies is particularly emotional and poignant."--Carlos M.F. Antunes, Sc.D., New England Journal of Medicine "[Will to Live] argues that, despite the government's commitment, treatment has been difficult to implement among HIV-positive poor Brazilians, who are often stigmatized."--Chronicle Review "Will to Live is a compellingly crafted study of AIDS in Brazil, an exemplar of how careful ethnographic work can illuminate the place of everyday life in the constitution of, and response to, globalizing forces... I bring a unique understanding of, and appreciation for, Biehl's achievement. It is significant."--Tom Boellstorff, Journal of Anthropological Research "Biehl manages to make his writing accessible, informative, fluid and engaging, resulting in a text which requires no prior knowledge of the subject matter, or the methods of anthropological research. As such, while deeply anthropological in approach and commitment to ethnographic forms of narrative, the book will enlighten, challenge and fascinate readers from a wide range of disciplines, from medicine to health policy, sociology to government, STS and law."--Rachel Douglas-Jones, Kaleidoscope "This is an insightful read for those interested in medical anthropology, the pharmaceutical industry, medical ethics, AIDS activism, and health studies. It is an essential tool for those seeking to understand the complexity of tackling the AIDS issue on the ground level."--Lindsay Sprague, Anthropology in Action "Will to Live is an impressive and moving analysis by an engaged ethnographer... Biehl presents a powerful example of how ethnographic investigation can illuminate the fine details and trajectories of people's lives while also informing critical analysis of broad shifts in global and national health policies."--Steven Epstein, American Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsIntroduction: A NEW WORLD OF HEALTH The Right to a Nonprojected Future 3 Universal Access to Lifesaving Therapies 7 A Political Economy of Pharmaceuticals 10 Persistent Inequalities 14 Lives "Take me to my father's house" (Edileusa) 20 "Today is another world" (Luis) 22 "If I only had thought then the way I think now" (Rose) 26 "Why will I think about the future?" (Nerivaldo) 30 "A child is what I wanted most in life" (Evangivaldo) 33 "To have HIV ... is like not having money" (Valquirene) 37 "Too much medication" (Soraia) 40 "A beautiful place" (Tiquinho) 43 The Politics of Survival 47 Chapter One: PHARMACEUTICAL GOVERNANCE Globalization and Statecraft 53 The Social Science of a Transforming Regime 55 AIDS, Democratization, and Human Rights 58 A Transnational Policy-Space 64 The Activist State 68 Intellectual Property Rights and World Trade 73 A Country's Disease--Public-Private Partnerships 79 Decentralization and a Magic Bullet Approach 84 Public-Sector Science and the Production of Generic Drugs 87 Scaling-Up 93 The Pharmaceuticalization of Public Health 97 Chapter Two: CIRCUITS OF CARE How Has AIDS Activism Changed? 105 From Passion to Politics 110 The AIDS Industry 115 Micro-Politics of Patienthood 120 Performing Citizenship 125 Grassroots Health Systems 130 A New National AIDS Program 135 On the Street: Violence, Charity, and Pleasure 140 In the Mainstream 155 Measures of Success, Undesirable Realities 160 The Undetectable Virus 164 "It is all about medicines now" 169 In Search of a Comprehensive Approach 172 "There is not just one death" 175 Chapter Three: A HIDDEN EPIDEMIC The Limits of Surveillance 179 AIDS in Bahia 180 Economic Death 184 Pelourinho 190 "I set myself on fire" (Maria Madalena) 194 "They take care of me as if I were family" (Lazaro) 198 Technologies of Invisibility 202 A System of Nonintervention 204 Infectious Diseases Research 206 Medical Sovereignty, Local Bioethics 209 Triage 213 The Social Life of Death Certificates 217 AIDS Therapies and Homelessness 225 "Science makes people equal" 232 Brasilia 236 Chapter Four: EXPERIMENTAL SUBJECTS AIDS-like Symptoms 241 HIV Antibody Test 244 Certainty: Closing the Past 246 Uncertainty: The Window Period 246 A Population of Doubts 250 What Is Socially Visible Is an Imagined AIDS 253 Risk and Prevention Models 257 Libidinal Order 259 Science and Subjectivity 263 Dangerous Worlds of Intimacy 267 Technoneurosis 270 "They own their bodies and are responsible for their actions" 272 Clinical Trials 276 Chapter Five: PATIENT-CITIZENSHIP "On the plane of immanence that leads us into a life" 283 A Place of No Government 286 Pastoral Power 296 Institutional Belonging and Treatment Adherence 303 New Prohibitions 308 "In Caasah we don't just have AIDS--we have God" 312 Religion, Health, Wealth 318 Ambiguous Political Subjects 324 Resuming Sexual Life 327 Beyond Direct Observed Therapy 334 Chapter Six: WILL TO LIVE Lifelong AIDS 339 Human Values 344 Medical Disparities 347 From Epidemic to Personalized Disease 349 Physically Well, Economically Dead 353 Drug Resistance and Rescue Treatments 355 "Medication is me" (Luis) 358 "I am mother and father" (Rose) 363 "It is the financial part of life that tortures me" (Evangivaldo) 368 Conclusion: GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH Large-Scale Medical Change 375 "A little more reverence for life" 377 The Future of Treatment Rollouts 379 Pharmaceutical Philanthropy and Equity 383 Where Is the State? 388 A Vanishing Civil Society 393 Understanding the Nexus of AIDS, Poverty, and Politics 396 Local Economies of Salvation 399 The Unexpected and the Possible 404 Acknowledgments 407 Notes 411 References 425 Index 451

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of CHOICE’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2017""Honorable Mention for the 2018 Frederick Jackson Turner Award, Organization of American Historians""A vital reminder that reactionary ideas gestate at the local level before they get nationalized. And, with enough organizing, so too might emancipatory ones."---Dan Berger, Truthout"This extraordinary book analyzes changing state-level policies toward drugs, welfare, and incarceration in the 1970s in the US, revealing connections between welfare and imprisonment as institutions of social regulation. . . . Drawing on statements and letters from officials, activists, prisoners, welfare recipients, and concerned citizens, Kohler-Hausmann illuminates the often contradictory and always contingent dialogues through which 'tough' policies were legitimized and enacted. . . . The inclusion of so many voices leads to a lively and engaging read." * Choice *Table of ContentsList of Figures ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Part I Pushers 29 1 Addicts into Citizens: The Tribulations of New York's Treatment Regime 33 2 The Public versus the Pushers: Enacting New York's Rockefeller Drug Laws 79 II Welfare Queens 121 Three The Welfare Mess: Reimagining the Social Contract 125 4 Welfare Is a Cancer: Economic Citizenship in the Age of Reagan 163 III Criminals 207 5 Unmaking the Rehabilitative Ideal 211 6 Going Berserk for Punishment: A Prelude to Mass Incarceration 250 Conclusion Forging an "Underclass" 289 Index 299

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