Michael Fabricant
Biographic Data
| ID | 254186 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Fabricant |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Fabricant |
| SIGNATURE | FABRICANT M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hunter College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Commentary
Bargaining for Brooklyn
Understanding Contemporary University-Community Connections
This article contextualizes the contemporary phenomenon of university-community partnership initiatives. Because changes in the university must always be understood in context, recent efforts to build and strengthen relationships between institutions of higher education and communities must be situated in the broader social sites that produce them. To that end the article surveys the university-community intersect through an historical lens which…
From Henry Street to Contracted Services
This article tracks historically the direct connection and shifting relationship between the larger political economy, the extent and arrangement of financing, and agency programming in the settlement house from 1886 to the present, with particular attention to agency experience in New York City. During this time the settlements changed from being informal organizations oriented to service provision and community building, in which funding was a …
Agency Based Community Building in Low Income Neighborhoods
The decline of community is a significant strain in recent social science literature. The concept of social capital has been used to describe the weakened state of communal structure. The most intense expressions of such decline have been experienced in poor communities. Relatively little attention however, has been paid to the difficult task of social capital formation or rebuilding community. This paper attempts to address that imbalance. It de…
Rising from the Ashes of Cutback, Political Warfare and Degraded Services
The economic and social decline of the white middle class over the last 20 years, fueled by intense economic shifts in global capital formation and worldwide market competition, has led to a conservative politics of the 1990s that harbingers a further erosion of the welfare state. This essay defines some of the critical areas which progressives must carefully examine if they are to counter conservative arguments more effectively, including a real…
The Welfare State Crisis and the Transformation of Social Service Work. Michael B. Fabricant and Steve Burghardt
Michael B. Fabricant and Steve Burghardt. The Welfare State Crisis and the Transformation of Social Service Work. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1992. $42.50 hardcover, $16.50 papercover. The damaging impact of the Reagan era and its policies on the human services has been well documented. Numerous studies have shown how budget cuts, the increased privatization and commercialization of programs, and the greater use of purchase of services contracting h…
Beyond Bed and Board
No abstract available for this article
Learning from the Field
The Industrialization of Social Work Practice
The drive to increase the productivity of social workers in large public-sector agencies has contributed to an erosion of certain craft elements of practice. The functions of workers are becoming increasingly repetitive and mechanistic, and opportunities to exercise judgment or to develop specific skills are becoming limited. These trends have contributed to a weakening of the profession's historic commitment to social change and the poor
The Service Trap
Juveniles in the Family Courts
Deinstitutionalization and the Welfare State. Paul Lerman
International Relations and Politics
Sociology
Reindustrialization and the Future of Social Welfare
Reindustrialization" is a term of economic complexity and great, if confused, social implications to most human service workers. Human services workers can only challenge the plans envisioned by most reindustrialists if certain arguments and assumptions are understood. This article will lay out the reindustrialists plans and assumptions. It will also develop some of the reasons why such ideas, as they are now formulated, cannot work -- in terms b…
Understanding Contemporary University-Community Connections
This article contextualizes the contemporary phenomenon of university-community partnership initiatives. Because changes in the university must always be understood in context, recent efforts to build and strengthen relationships between institutions of higher education and communities must be situated in the broader social sites that produce them. To that end the article surveys the university-community intersect through an historical lens which…
The Industrialization of Social Work Practice
The drive to increase the productivity of social workers in large public-sector agencies has contributed to an erosion of certain craft elements of practice. The functions of workers are becoming increasingly repetitive and mechanistic, and opportunities to exercise judgment or to develop specific skills are becoming limited. These trends have contributed to a weakening of the profession's historic commitment to social change and the poor
From Henry Street to Contracted Services
This article tracks historically the direct connection and shifting relationship between the larger political economy, the extent and arrangement of financing, and agency programming in the settlement house from 1886 to the present, with particular attention to agency experience in New York City. During this time the settlements changed from being informal organizations oriented to service provision and community building, in which funding was a …
Agency Based Community Building in Low Income Neighborhoods
The decline of community is a significant strain in recent social science literature. The concept of social capital has been used to describe the weakened state of communal structure. The most intense expressions of such decline have been experienced in poor communities. Relatively little attention however, has been paid to the difficult task of social capital formation or rebuilding community. This paper attempts to address that imbalance. It de…
Rising from the Ashes of Cutback, Political Warfare and Degraded Services
The economic and social decline of the white middle class over the last 20 years, fueled by intense economic shifts in global capital formation and worldwide market competition, has led to a conservative politics of the 1990s that harbingers a further erosion of the welfare state. This essay defines some of the critical areas which progressives must carefully examine if they are to counter conservative arguments more effectively, including a real…
Beyond Bed and Board
No abstract available for this article
Reindustrialization and the Future of Social Welfare
Reindustrialization" is a term of economic complexity and great, if confused, social implications to most human service workers. Human services workers can only challenge the plans envisioned by most reindustrialists if certain arguments and assumptions are understood. This article will lay out the reindustrialists plans and assumptions. It will also develop some of the reasons why such ideas, as they are now formulated, cannot work -- in terms b…
Sociology
International Relations and Politics
Juveniles in the Family Courts
Deinstitutionalization and the Welfare State. Paul Lerman
The Industrialization of Social Work Practice
The drive to increase the productivity of social workers in large public-sector agencies has contributed to an erosion of certain craft elements of practice. The functions of workers are becoming increasingly repetitive and mechanistic, and opportunities to exercise judgment or to develop specific skills are becoming limited. These trends have contributed to a weakening of the profession's historic commitment to social change and the poor
The Service Trap
Beyond Bed and Board
No abstract available for this article
Learning from the Field
The Welfare State Crisis and the Transformation of Social Service Work. Michael B. Fabricant and Steve Burghardt
Michael B. Fabricant and Steve Burghardt. The Welfare State Crisis and the Transformation of Social Service Work. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1992. $42.50 hardcover, $16.50 papercover. The damaging impact of the Reagan era and its policies on the human services has been well documented. Numerous studies have shown how budget cuts, the increased privatization and commercialization of programs, and the greater use of purchase of services contracting h…
Rising from the Ashes of Cutback, Political Warfare and Degraded Services
The economic and social decline of the white middle class over the last 20 years, fueled by intense economic shifts in global capital formation and worldwide market competition, has led to a conservative politics of the 1990s that harbingers a further erosion of the welfare state. This essay defines some of the critical areas which progressives must carefully examine if they are to counter conservative arguments more effectively, including a real…
From Henry Street to Contracted Services
This article tracks historically the direct connection and shifting relationship between the larger political economy, the extent and arrangement of financing, and agency programming in the settlement house from 1886 to the present, with particular attention to agency experience in New York City. During this time the settlements changed from being informal organizations oriented to service provision and community building, in which funding was a …
Agency Based Community Building in Low Income Neighborhoods
The decline of community is a significant strain in recent social science literature. The concept of social capital has been used to describe the weakened state of communal structure. The most intense expressions of such decline have been experienced in poor communities. Relatively little attention however, has been paid to the difficult task of social capital formation or rebuilding community. This paper attempts to address that imbalance. It de…
Understanding Contemporary University-Community Connections
This article contextualizes the contemporary phenomenon of university-community partnership initiatives. Because changes in the university must always be understood in context, recent efforts to build and strengthen relationships between institutions of higher education and communities must be situated in the broader social sites that produce them. To that end the article surveys the university-community intersect through an historical lens which…
Bargaining for Brooklyn
Commentary
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