Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 2037878 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gertrude Schaffner |
| FAMILY NAME | Goldberg |
| SIGNATURE | GOLDBERG G S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Adelphi University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Literature and the Human Condition in Teaching and Learning
The benefits of literature are countless. Social workers, however, are usually not inclined to count the teaching and practice of social work among its beneficiaries. We believe that literature is one of the ways to enrich vital components of social work knowledge, attitudes, and skills. In this article, we begin by calling attention to a historical precedent for the use of literature in social work education and practice. We then examine recent …
Employment or Income Guarantees
Inspiring and Training Students for Social Action
In social work, it is believed that certain knowledge and skills are learned more effectively through experience than through didactic classroom content. Members of the faculty of a school of social work have developed a Social Action Day to reinforce curriculum and translate into practice material about advocacy and ethical responsibilities for social action; show the breadth of social work practice; and enhance the school's sense of community. …
Economic Inequality and Economic Crisis
To social workers, extreme economic inequality is primarily a violation of social justice, but this article shows how growing economic inequality since the mid-1970s was not only unjust, but also dysfunctional to the U.S. economy and linked to the recent economic crisis with its devastating effects, particularly on the social work clientele. The article identifies interrelated changes in ideology, the market economy, and government policies since…
Strategic and Political Challenges to Large-Scale Federal Job Creation
This article identifies and explores means of meeting political and strategic challenges to the enactment of a federal job creation program sufficiently large and well-targeted to cope with mass unemployment. The challenges include: anti-government ideology; perceived failure of the Obama stimulus; exaggerated concern over federal deficits; shortcomings of the New Deal model for job creation; limited scope and/or sponsorship of legislative initia…
Poor Women in Rich Countries
This wide-ranging collection focuses on the economic condition of single mothers and single elderly women in eight wealthy but diverse countries: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States
Decent Work and Public Investment
The Quality of Life Paradox
Qualitative and quantitative research methods were used to investigate the quality of life of 102 persons who left the welfare rolls of a suburban county. Largely in low-wage jobs, if employed, and exposed to economic hardship, two-thirds nonetheless reported improved quality of life. Former recipients reported mistreatment by caseworkers and diminished self-worth, leading investigators to infer that it is not so much that life after welfare is b…
Rethinking Social Work's Role in Public Assistance
This article presents an argument for revisiting social work's relationship to public assistance in the wake of 10 years of welfare reform. Three case studies drawn from a mixed-method study of the quality of life of former TANF recipients illustrate the range, depth and complexity of the needs of persons while they are on the welfare rolls, transitioning off and living without cash relief. The article briefly traces the history of social work's …
Diminishing Welfare
Introduction: Three Stages of Welfare Capitalism by Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg More than Reluctant: The United States of America by Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg Downloading the Welfare State, Canadian Style by Patricia M. Evans Sweden: Temporary Detour or New Directions? by Helen Lachs Ginsburg and Marguerite G. Rosenthal Diminishing Welfare: The Case of the United Kingdom by Jane Millar The Triple Exceptionalism of the French Welfare State by Ma…
Theory and Practice in Program Development
To learn how social programs are actually developed and whether the process corresponds to practice models, I used interviews and document analysis to study the development of 14 reputedly effective programs. Militating against a single model of practice is the finding that effective programs were developed with a variety of methods, ranging from little anticipation of action or largely trial and error to substantial planning and search for knowl…
Civilization and Work
Women and Social Welfare
The Feminization of Poverty
Spouseless, Childless Elderly Women and Their Social Supports
A study of spouseless, childless elderly women living in a metropolitan area included women who had never married, women who were widowed, and women who were divorced or separated. Although potentially at risk with regard to attaining social supports, most of the women had developed substitute supports for the close kin they lacked. Most respondents were younger elderly— aged 65 to 74—who considered themselves in good health
Adding the Arms Race to the Psychosocial Equation
Journal Article Adding the Arms Race to the Psychosocial Equation Get access Gertrude S. Goldberg Gertrude S. Goldberg Center for Social Policy, School of Social Work, Adelphi University, Garden City, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Work, Volume 29, Issue 5, September-October 1984, Pages 481–483, https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/29.5.481 Published: 01 September 1984 Article history Accepte…
New Directions for the Community Service Society of New York
Change in the goals, clientele, and technology of the country's largest family-service organization resulted from a combination of external and internal factors: increased prevalence and societal perception of urban social problems, and the agency's aspiration to be a leader in social welfare. New environmental conditions changed the criteria for social welfare leadership. Change was initiated by trustee leaders who exercised their power by appoi…
Economic Inequality and Economic Crisis
To social workers, extreme economic inequality is primarily a violation of social justice, but this article shows how growing economic inequality since the mid-1970s was not only unjust, but also dysfunctional to the U.S. economy and linked to the recent economic crisis with its devastating effects, particularly on the social work clientele. The article identifies interrelated changes in ideology, the market economy, and government policies since…
Spouseless, Childless Elderly Women and Their Social Supports
A study of spouseless, childless elderly women living in a metropolitan area included women who had never married, women who were widowed, and women who were divorced or separated. Although potentially at risk with regard to attaining social supports, most of the women had developed substitute supports for the close kin they lacked. Most respondents were younger elderly— aged 65 to 74—who considered themselves in good health
The Quality of Life Paradox
Qualitative and quantitative research methods were used to investigate the quality of life of 102 persons who left the welfare rolls of a suburban county. Largely in low-wage jobs, if employed, and exposed to economic hardship, two-thirds nonetheless reported improved quality of life. Former recipients reported mistreatment by caseworkers and diminished self-worth, leading investigators to infer that it is not so much that life after welfare is b…
Inspiring and Training Students for Social Action
In social work, it is believed that certain knowledge and skills are learned more effectively through experience than through didactic classroom content. Members of the faculty of a school of social work have developed a Social Action Day to reinforce curriculum and translate into practice material about advocacy and ethical responsibilities for social action; show the breadth of social work practice; and enhance the school's sense of community. …
Strategic and Political Challenges to Large-Scale Federal Job Creation
This article identifies and explores means of meeting political and strategic challenges to the enactment of a federal job creation program sufficiently large and well-targeted to cope with mass unemployment. The challenges include: anti-government ideology; perceived failure of the Obama stimulus; exaggerated concern over federal deficits; shortcomings of the New Deal model for job creation; limited scope and/or sponsorship of legislative initia…
Literature and the Human Condition in Teaching and Learning
The benefits of literature are countless. Social workers, however, are usually not inclined to count the teaching and practice of social work among its beneficiaries. We believe that literature is one of the ways to enrich vital components of social work knowledge, attitudes, and skills. In this article, we begin by calling attention to a historical precedent for the use of literature in social work education and practice. We then examine recent …
New Directions for the Community Service Society of New York
Change in the goals, clientele, and technology of the country's largest family-service organization resulted from a combination of external and internal factors: increased prevalence and societal perception of urban social problems, and the agency's aspiration to be a leader in social welfare. New environmental conditions changed the criteria for social welfare leadership. Change was initiated by trustee leaders who exercised their power by appoi…
Adding the Arms Race to the Psychosocial Equation
Journal Article Adding the Arms Race to the Psychosocial Equation Get access Gertrude S. Goldberg Gertrude S. Goldberg Center for Social Policy, School of Social Work, Adelphi University, Garden City, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Work, Volume 29, Issue 5, September-October 1984, Pages 481–483, https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/29.5.481 Published: 01 September 1984 Article history Accepte…
Spouseless, Childless Elderly Women and Their Social Supports
A study of spouseless, childless elderly women living in a metropolitan area included women who had never married, women who were widowed, and women who were divorced or separated. Although potentially at risk with regard to attaining social supports, most of the women had developed substitute supports for the close kin they lacked. Most respondents were younger elderly— aged 65 to 74—who considered themselves in good health
The Feminization of Poverty
Women and Social Welfare
Civilization and Work
Theory and Practice in Program Development
To learn how social programs are actually developed and whether the process corresponds to practice models, I used interviews and document analysis to study the development of 14 reputedly effective programs. Militating against a single model of practice is the finding that effective programs were developed with a variety of methods, ranging from little anticipation of action or largely trial and error to substantial planning and search for knowl…
Diminishing Welfare
Introduction: Three Stages of Welfare Capitalism by Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg More than Reluctant: The United States of America by Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg Downloading the Welfare State, Canadian Style by Patricia M. Evans Sweden: Temporary Detour or New Directions? by Helen Lachs Ginsburg and Marguerite G. Rosenthal Diminishing Welfare: The Case of the United Kingdom by Jane Millar The Triple Exceptionalism of the French Welfare State by Ma…
Decent Work and Public Investment
The Quality of Life Paradox
Qualitative and quantitative research methods were used to investigate the quality of life of 102 persons who left the welfare rolls of a suburban county. Largely in low-wage jobs, if employed, and exposed to economic hardship, two-thirds nonetheless reported improved quality of life. Former recipients reported mistreatment by caseworkers and diminished self-worth, leading investigators to infer that it is not so much that life after welfare is b…
Rethinking Social Work's Role in Public Assistance
This article presents an argument for revisiting social work's relationship to public assistance in the wake of 10 years of welfare reform. Three case studies drawn from a mixed-method study of the quality of life of former TANF recipients illustrate the range, depth and complexity of the needs of persons while they are on the welfare rolls, transitioning off and living without cash relief. The article briefly traces the history of social work's …
Poor Women in Rich Countries
This wide-ranging collection focuses on the economic condition of single mothers and single elderly women in eight wealthy but diverse countries: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States
Strategic and Political Challenges to Large-Scale Federal Job Creation
This article identifies and explores means of meeting political and strategic challenges to the enactment of a federal job creation program sufficiently large and well-targeted to cope with mass unemployment. The challenges include: anti-government ideology; perceived failure of the Obama stimulus; exaggerated concern over federal deficits; shortcomings of the New Deal model for job creation; limited scope and/or sponsorship of legislative initia…
Inspiring and Training Students for Social Action
In social work, it is believed that certain knowledge and skills are learned more effectively through experience than through didactic classroom content. Members of the faculty of a school of social work have developed a Social Action Day to reinforce curriculum and translate into practice material about advocacy and ethical responsibilities for social action; show the breadth of social work practice; and enhance the school's sense of community. …
Economic Inequality and Economic Crisis
To social workers, extreme economic inequality is primarily a violation of social justice, but this article shows how growing economic inequality since the mid-1970s was not only unjust, but also dysfunctional to the U.S. economy and linked to the recent economic crisis with its devastating effects, particularly on the social work clientele. The article identifies interrelated changes in ideology, the market economy, and government policies since…
Literature and the Human Condition in Teaching and Learning
The benefits of literature are countless. Social workers, however, are usually not inclined to count the teaching and practice of social work among its beneficiaries. We believe that literature is one of the ways to enrich vital components of social work knowledge, attitudes, and skills. In this article, we begin by calling attention to a historical precedent for the use of literature in social work education and practice. We then examine recent …
Employment or Income Guarantees
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