Howard Jacob Karger
Biographic Data
| ID | 163343 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Howard Jacob Karger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Howard Jacob |
| FAMILY NAME | Karger |
| SIGNATURE | KARGER H J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Houston |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4558-8691 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 87 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Problems in Paradise: Low Wages and the Well-Being of Hawaiians
Hawaii is used as a case study to examine the impact of wages related to the real cost of living (COL). Hawaii’s US$10.10 minimum wage is below the COL based on the federal Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM), raising its low poverty rate to the ninth highest nationally. Wages, housing, and the high rate of homelessness are examined, as is the necessity for multiple jobs, which impacts family life. This article also examines how the gig economy af…
American Social Welfare Policy: A Pluralist Approach
In a perfect world it would be great if they didn't exist’: How A ustralians experience payday loans
In the last few decades, payday lending has mushroomed in many developed countries. The arguments for and against an industry which provides small, short‐term loans at very high interest rates have also blossomed. This article presents findings from an Australian study to contribute to the international policy and practice debate about a sector which orients to those on a low income. At the heart of this debate lies a conundrum: Borrowing from pa…
The Bitter Pill: Austerity, Debt, and the Attack on Europe's Welfare States
There is a general belief among may European policymakers that the current debt problem in some Eurozone countries is caused by the unsustainable levels of governmental spending required to maintain overly generous welfare state programs, a bloated public sector, overly generous pension levels, state subsidies, and low user fees for services. Their proposed solution lies in implementing stringent austerity measures designed to discipline debt-rid…
Austerity Versus Stimulus: An Introduction to the Special Issue
The Great Recession or Global Financial Crisis of 20072008 began with the collapse of several major financial institutions in both Europe and the United States. This crisis had a major impact on the well-being of citizens around the world, including the U.S. and Europe, where unemployment soared, many thriving but marginal small businesses were shuttered, and homelessness skyrocketed as highly indebted families were unable to meet their mortgage …
Lessons from American Social Work Education: Caution Ahead
Similar trends are occurring in Australian and US social work education, as universities increasingly adopt a rigid market orientation to tertiary education. This marketisation shapes social work education in manifold ways, including the pressure to increase revenues (and effect greater efficiencies) by expanding the size of social work programs. The unregulated growth in social work programs leads to lowered admission standards, as programs are …
Response to Hughes (2012): Commentary on Lessons from American Social Work Education: Caution Ahead (Karger, 2012)
Response to Crawford (2012): Learning Cautious Pragmatism from American Social Work Education. Commentary on Lessons from American Social Work Education: Caution Ahead (Karger, 2012)
Response to Crawford (2012): Learning Cautious Pragmatism from American Social Work Education. Commentary on Lessons from American Social Work Education: Caution Ahead (Karger, 2012)." Australian Social Work, 65(3), pp. 335–336
Reinventing Social Work Accreditation
Accreditation under the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) has contributed to the professional decline of social work. The lack of scholarship of the Board of Directors of CSWE compromises its decision making. The quality of the professional literature suffers from the weak scholarship of editors and referees. The caliber of deans and directors of social work educational programs is low with respect to their scholarship as well. Graduate stu…
Social Work Education in Wonderland: Stoesz and Karger Reply
The authors respond to the invited commentary addressing their paper “Reinventing Social Work Accreditation” published earlier in this issue. Many of the comments provided were sensible and sober appraisals of the critical state of social work education and of the profession, largely congruent with the authors' analysis. They judge the response from the Council on Social Work Education to be more dismissive, and representative of the attitudes an…
The Challenge of Community Work in a Global Economy
This article examines how and why five major stakeholders-international financial organizations; NGOs; governmental entities; multinational corporations; and community development projects- have failed to significantly and uniformly reduce aggregate global poverty. The article uses the results of a case study of HIV/ AIDS prevention in a low-income Nigerian city to argue that effective action must involve local and global stakeholders in collabor…
The Decline of the Public Intellectual in Social Work
This article examines reasons for social work's abandonment of public discourse, activism and intellectual life. It also explores strategies to encourage the profession to reenter public life and develop a modern cadre of social work identified public intellectuals. Specifically, this process entails professional and academic reform and a renewed vision around the social justice mission of social work
Ending Public Assistance: The Transformation of US Public Assistance Policy into Labour Policy
A convincing argument can be made that US income maintenance policy would be better housed under the Secretary of Labour than with the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Begun almost 30 years ago, the transformation of public assistance policy into labour policy reached fruition with the passage of the groundbreaking Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA), a bill that would dramatically transform the…
The Politics of Social Work Research
Although the author agrees that refereed journals play a key role in knowledge dissemination, Pardeck and Meinert only look at a small piece of the problem. Missing is the politics of how social work research is judged worthy of dissemination. The response examines how social work organizations promote scholarship that is political rather than content driven. The author argues that the latent role of the Social Work editorial board is political g…
Rethinking child welfare services: The children's authority
Learning from family preservation
The Politics of Child Abuse in America
The recent surge in reports of child abuse has led Costin, Karger, and Stoesz to examine whether our current responses to the problem are adequate. In this book they trace the cultural, social, and legal factors that have shaped the history of child abuse and responses to it since the 1870s. The public response to child abuse is detailed, from the creation of the first Societies for Prevention of Cruelty to Children in the late 19th century, to t…
A New Mission in Social Policy
Ideological purity versus pragmatic considerations in the development of social welfare in Israel
Income Maintenance Programs and the Reagan Domestic Agenda
Income maintenance programs are a key feature of the American welfare state. The impact of the Reagan administration’s social welfare policies are examined in this article, which also speculates about the long-term effects of his successes on the future of income maintenance programs. Specifically, this article provides a brief historical background of income maintanence programs, examines Reagan’s ideological and strategic approach to deconstruc…
The Decline of the Americal Welfare State
The Global Economy and the American Welfare State
The American social welfare state is approaching a crisis because of the global economy. Survival in a new world economy requires corporations to become more efficient, a strategy which leads to a rapidly changing technology, plant shutdowns, and industrial reorganization. To aid corporations, government often curbs taxes to make capital available for investment. These policies can lead to governmental debt, reduced welfare services, a deteriorat…
The Corporatisation of the United States Welfare State
This article examines the increasing importance of human service corporations within the American welfare state. In particular, the article investigates the historical and philosophical background of the corporatisation of welfare, the expanding social welfare market, and the scope of human service corporations. The consequence of corporatisation, including standardisation, commodification, and the oligarchic nature of human services are also exa…
Social Workers and Labor Unions
Part I: The Historical Background of Social Work and Unionism Part II: Common and Conflicting Goals of Labor and Social Work Part III: Unions and Social Service Agencies Part IV: Ethics, Struggle, Antiunionism, and the Future Postscript
Social Workers and Labor Unions
Science, Research, and Social Work: Who Controls the Profession
precisely from hard data, rather than merely relying on the soft ab stractions of history, philosophy, and social theory. Throughout this period, qualitative research appeared to be in relative re treat. The qualitative research that did exist was relegated to the status of philosophy and summarily dismissed as opinion or social critique. In creasingly, social criticism both within and outside of social work was
Burnout as Alienation
Burnout has been described in much of the literature as a problem having its genesis in work-related stress. This article examines the literature and the assumptions made about burnout, and the parallel of this problem to industrial alienation
Reinventing Social Work Accreditation
Accreditation under the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) has contributed to the professional decline of social work. The lack of scholarship of the Board of Directors of CSWE compromises its decision making. The quality of the professional literature suffers from the weak scholarship of editors and referees. The caliber of deans and directors of social work educational programs is low with respect to their scholarship as well. Graduate stu…
Social Workers and Labor Unions
Part I: The Historical Background of Social Work and Unionism Part II: Common and Conflicting Goals of Labor and Social Work Part III: Unions and Social Service Agencies Part IV: Ethics, Struggle, Antiunionism, and the Future Postscript
In a perfect world it would be great if they didn't exist’: How A ustralians experience payday loans
In the last few decades, payday lending has mushroomed in many developed countries. The arguments for and against an industry which provides small, short‐term loans at very high interest rates have also blossomed. This article presents findings from an Australian study to contribute to the international policy and practice debate about a sector which orients to those on a low income. At the heart of this debate lies a conundrum: Borrowing from pa…
The Politics of Social Work Research
Although the author agrees that refereed journals play a key role in knowledge dissemination, Pardeck and Meinert only look at a small piece of the problem. Missing is the politics of how social work research is judged worthy of dissemination. The response examines how social work organizations promote scholarship that is political rather than content driven. The author argues that the latent role of the Social Work editorial board is political g…
Ending Public Assistance: The Transformation of US Public Assistance Policy into Labour Policy
A convincing argument can be made that US income maintenance policy would be better housed under the Secretary of Labour than with the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Begun almost 30 years ago, the transformation of public assistance policy into labour policy reached fruition with the passage of the groundbreaking Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA), a bill that would dramatically transform the…
Reclassification: Is There a Future in Public Welfare for the Trained Social Worker
By focusing on the Michigan plan of reclassification as a case study, this article examines the significance of reclassification in public welfare. The National Association of Social Worker's (NASW's) current strategy in addressing reclassification is evaluated and several alternative strategies and policies for the organization are considered. The author proposes that NASW form an alliance with public sector unions and explore collective bargain…
Lessons from American Social Work Education: Caution Ahead
Similar trends are occurring in Australian and US social work education, as universities increasingly adopt a rigid market orientation to tertiary education. This marketisation shapes social work education in manifold ways, including the pressure to increase revenues (and effect greater efficiencies) by expanding the size of social work programs. The unregulated growth in social work programs leads to lowered admission standards, as programs are …
Social Work Education in Wonderland: Stoesz and Karger Reply
The authors respond to the invited commentary addressing their paper “Reinventing Social Work Accreditation” published earlier in this issue. Many of the comments provided were sensible and sober appraisals of the critical state of social work education and of the profession, largely congruent with the authors' analysis. They judge the response from the Council on Social Work Education to be more dismissive, and representative of the attitudes an…
The Decline of the Public Intellectual in Social Work
This article examines reasons for social work's abandonment of public discourse, activism and intellectual life. It also explores strategies to encourage the profession to reenter public life and develop a modern cadre of social work identified public intellectuals. Specifically, this process entails professional and academic reform and a renewed vision around the social justice mission of social work
The Corporatisation of the United States Welfare State
This article examines the increasing importance of human service corporations within the American welfare state. In particular, the article investigates the historical and philosophical background of the corporatisation of welfare, the expanding social welfare market, and the scope of human service corporations. The consequence of corporatisation, including standardisation, commodification, and the oligarchic nature of human services are also exa…
The Bitter Pill: Austerity, Debt, and the Attack on Europe's Welfare States
There is a general belief among may European policymakers that the current debt problem in some Eurozone countries is caused by the unsustainable levels of governmental spending required to maintain overly generous welfare state programs, a bloated public sector, overly generous pension levels, state subsidies, and low user fees for services. Their proposed solution lies in implementing stringent austerity measures designed to discipline debt-rid…
The Challenge of Community Work in a Global Economy
This article examines how and why five major stakeholders-international financial organizations; NGOs; governmental entities; multinational corporations; and community development projects- have failed to significantly and uniformly reduce aggregate global poverty. The article uses the results of a case study of HIV/ AIDS prevention in a low-income Nigerian city to argue that effective action must involve local and global stakeholders in collabor…
The Decline of the Americal Welfare State
Burnout as Alienation
Burnout has been described in much of the literature as a problem having its genesis in work-related stress. This article examines the literature and the assumptions made about burnout, and the parallel of this problem to industrial alienation
Science, Research, and Social Work: Who Controls the Profession
precisely from hard data, rather than merely relying on the soft ab stractions of history, philosophy, and social theory. Throughout this period, qualitative research appeared to be in relative re treat. The qualitative research that did exist was relegated to the status of philosophy and summarily dismissed as opinion or social critique. In creasingly, social criticism both within and outside of social work was
Reclassification: Is There a Future in Public Welfare for the Trained Social Worker
By focusing on the Michigan plan of reclassification as a case study, this article examines the significance of reclassification in public welfare. The National Association of Social Worker's (NASW's) current strategy in addressing reclassification is evaluated and several alternative strategies and policies for the organization are considered. The author proposes that NASW form an alliance with public sector unions and explore collective bargain…
Star Wars
Star Wars Get access H. Jacob Karger H. Jacob Karger College of Saint Benedict, St. Joseph, Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Work, Volume 29, Issue 3, May-June 1984, Page 315, https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/29.3.315 Published: 01 May 1984
Phyllis Wheatley House: A History of the Minneapolis Black Settlement House, 1924 to 1940
The De-Skilling of Social Workers: An Examination of the Impact of the Industrial Model of Production on the Delivery of Social Services
This article examines the effect of the industrial model of production on the delivery of social services. As part of this study, the effects of technology (used in its broadest sense) and system rationalization are explored, particularly as they result in the de-skilling of social workers. Lastly, the author makes recommendations for the development of alternative criteria for system rationality and the evaluation of efficiency in social service…
"Minneapolis Settlement Houses in the "Not So Roaring 20's' Americanization, Morality, and the Revolt against Popular Culture
The article traces the theoretical and ideological development of the Minneapolis settlement house community during the 1920's. As such, the article examines the social control function of Minneapolis settlements through their emphasis on Americanization, morality, the concepts of neighborhood and democracy, and the role of domestic politics within the settlement community. The article also explores the dialectical relationship between the social…
Organization in a Changing Environment: Unionization of Welfare Employees
Social Workers and Labor Unions
Part I: The Historical Background of Social Work and Unionism Part II: Common and Conflicting Goals of Labor and Social Work Part III: Unions and Social Service Agencies Part IV: Ethics, Struggle, Antiunionism, and the Future Postscript
Social Workers and Labor Unions
The Global Economy and the American Welfare State
The American social welfare state is approaching a crisis because of the global economy. Survival in a new world economy requires corporations to become more efficient, a strategy which leads to a rapidly changing technology, plant shutdowns, and industrial reorganization. To aid corporations, government often curbs taxes to make capital available for investment. These policies can lead to governmental debt, reduced welfare services, a deteriorat…
The Corporatisation of the United States Welfare State
This article examines the increasing importance of human service corporations within the American welfare state. In particular, the article investigates the historical and philosophical background of the corporatisation of welfare, the expanding social welfare market, and the scope of human service corporations. The consequence of corporatisation, including standardisation, commodification, and the oligarchic nature of human services are also exa…
Income Maintenance Programs and the Reagan Domestic Agenda
Income maintenance programs are a key feature of the American welfare state. The impact of the Reagan administration’s social welfare policies are examined in this article, which also speculates about the long-term effects of his successes on the future of income maintenance programs. Specifically, this article provides a brief historical background of income maintanence programs, examines Reagan’s ideological and strategic approach to deconstruc…
The Decline of the Americal Welfare State
Ideological purity versus pragmatic considerations in the development of social welfare in Israel
A New Mission in Social Policy
The Politics of Child Abuse in America
The recent surge in reports of child abuse has led Costin, Karger, and Stoesz to examine whether our current responses to the problem are adequate. In this book they trace the cultural, social, and legal factors that have shaped the history of child abuse and responses to it since the 1870s. The public response to child abuse is detailed, from the creation of the first Societies for Prevention of Cruelty to Children in the late 19th century, to t…
Rethinking child welfare services: The children's authority
Learning from family preservation
The Politics of Social Work Research
Although the author agrees that refereed journals play a key role in knowledge dissemination, Pardeck and Meinert only look at a small piece of the problem. Missing is the politics of how social work research is judged worthy of dissemination. The response examines how social work organizations promote scholarship that is political rather than content driven. The author argues that the latent role of the Social Work editorial board is political g…
Ending Public Assistance: The Transformation of US Public Assistance Policy into Labour Policy
A convincing argument can be made that US income maintenance policy would be better housed under the Secretary of Labour than with the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Begun almost 30 years ago, the transformation of public assistance policy into labour policy reached fruition with the passage of the groundbreaking Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA), a bill that would dramatically transform the…
The Decline of the Public Intellectual in Social Work
This article examines reasons for social work's abandonment of public discourse, activism and intellectual life. It also explores strategies to encourage the profession to reenter public life and develop a modern cadre of social work identified public intellectuals. Specifically, this process entails professional and academic reform and a renewed vision around the social justice mission of social work
The Challenge of Community Work in a Global Economy
This article examines how and why five major stakeholders-international financial organizations; NGOs; governmental entities; multinational corporations; and community development projects- have failed to significantly and uniformly reduce aggregate global poverty. The article uses the results of a case study of HIV/ AIDS prevention in a low-income Nigerian city to argue that effective action must involve local and global stakeholders in collabor…
Reinventing Social Work Accreditation
Accreditation under the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) has contributed to the professional decline of social work. The lack of scholarship of the Board of Directors of CSWE compromises its decision making. The quality of the professional literature suffers from the weak scholarship of editors and referees. The caliber of deans and directors of social work educational programs is low with respect to their scholarship as well. Graduate stu…
Social Work Education in Wonderland: Stoesz and Karger Reply
The authors respond to the invited commentary addressing their paper “Reinventing Social Work Accreditation” published earlier in this issue. Many of the comments provided were sensible and sober appraisals of the critical state of social work education and of the profession, largely congruent with the authors' analysis. They judge the response from the Council on Social Work Education to be more dismissive, and representative of the attitudes an…
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