Ruth O’brien
Biographic Data
| ID | 3921868 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruth O’brien |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruth |
| FAMILY NAME | O’brien |
| SIGNATURE | O’BRIEN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Graduate Center, CUNY |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Out of Many, One: Obama and the Third American Political Tradition
A Community Translational Research Pilot Grants Program to Facilitate Community-Academic Partnerships: Lessons From Colorado's Clinical Translational Science Awards
We have seen early success in both traditional and capacity building metrics: the initial investment of $272,742 in our first cycle led to over $2.8 million dollars in additional grant funding, with grantees reporting strengthening capacity of their community- academic partnerships and the rigor and relevance of their research
Translating a Research Intervention into Community Practice: The Nurse Family Partnership
Other Voices at the Workplace: Gender, Disability, and an Alternative Ethic of Care
Voices from the Edge: Narratives about the Americans with Disabilities Act
Fear, rage, courage, discrimination. These are facts of everyday life for many Americans with disabilities. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), has made working, traveling, and communicating easier for many individuals. But has this significant piece of civil rights legislation helped those with disabilities become fully accepted members of society? How does an individual deal with discriminatory situations that the law cannot, does not, o…
From a Doctor's to a Judge's Gaze: Epistemic Communities and the History of Disability Rights Policy in the Workplace
This article shows how an epistemic community's involvement in public policy-making provides an opportunity to use both a cultural and an institutional explanation of American political development without privileging either one. To do so, it traces the history of the public policy that provided disability rights in the workplace from World War II onwards. The article explores the emergence of the federal government's vocational rehabilitation pr…
Home Visiting by Paraprofessionals and by Nurses: A Randomized, Controlled Trial
Objective. To examine the effectiveness of home visiting by paraprofessionals and by nurses as separate means of improving maternal and child health when both types of visitors are trained in a program model that has demonstrated effectiveness when delivered by nurses. Methods. A randomized, controlled trial was conducted in public- and private-care settings in Denver, Colorado. One thousand one hundred seventy-eight consecutive pregnant women wi…
Disability, Employment Policy, and the Supreme Court
A. An Epistemic Community of Rehabilitation 611 B. The Rehabilitation Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act ........ 615 C. The Supreme Court and Disability Employment Policy 619 II. (RE)ASSESSING SUPREME COURT JURISPRUDENCE 623 A. The ADA as a Disharmonious Statute 624 B. The Justices and the Disabled. Discomfort 625 C. The Justices and the ADA: Underlying Principles 625 III. THE JUSTICES AND THE WHOLE MAN 626 C O N C LU SIO N 633
Crippled Justice: A History of Modern Disability Policy in the Workplace
A Sweat Shop of the Whole Nation: The Fair Labor Standard Act and the Failure of Regulatory Unionism
The history of the American welfare state is often recounted as a long line of missed opportunities. As the story goes, the absence of a labor party, or American exceptionalism, helped create a weak welfare state. Initially, some political scientists, labor economists, and historians attributed American exceptionalism to the pure and simple unionism of the American Federation of Labor (AFL). In the 1990s, however, a number of political scientists…
A Sweat Shop of the Whole Nation’: The Fair Labor Standard Act and the Failure of Regulatory Unionism”
The history of the American welfare state is often recounted as a long line of missed opportunities. As the story goes, the absence of a labor party, or American exceptionalism, helped create a weak welfare state. Initially, some political scientists, labor economists, and historians attributed American exceptionalism to the pure and simple unionism of the American Federation of Labor (AFL). In the 1990s, however, a number of political scientists…
U.S. Labor and Political Action, 1918-24: A Comparison of Independent Political Action in New York, Chicago, and Seattle
Journal Article U.S. Labor and Political Action, 1918–24: A Comparison of Independent Political Action in New York, Chicago, and Seattle. By Andrew Strouthous. (New York: St. Martin's, 2000. xii, 208 pp. $65.00, isbn 0-312-22185-1.) Get access Ruth O'Brien Ruth O'Brien John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Graduate Center, City University of New York New York, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jo…
Crippled Justice: The History of Modern Disability Policy in the Workplace
Journal Article Crippled Justice: The History of Modern Disability Policy in the Workplace Get access O’Brien Ruth, Crippled Justice: The History of Modern Disability Policy in the Workplace. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. xiv, 288 pp. $50.00 (cloth). $19.00 (paper). Steven Noll Steven Noll University of Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 45, Issu…
Workers' Paradox: The Republican Origins of New Deal Labor Policy, 1886-1935
Differences in program implementation between nurses and paraprofessionals providing home visits during pregnancy and infancy: A randomized trial
OBJECTIVES: This study examined differences between nurses and paraprofessionals in implementation of a home visiting program for low-income, first-time parents during pregnancy and the first 2 years of the child's life. METHODS: Mothers were randomly assigned to either a nurse-visited (n = 236) or a paraprofessional-visited (n = 244) condition. Nurse- and paraprofessional-visited families were compared on number and length of visits, topics cove…
Workers' Paradox: The Republican Origins of New Deal Labor Policy, 1886- 1935
Journal Article Workers' Paradox: The Republican Origins of New Deal Labor Policy, 1886–1935. By Ruth O'Brien. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xvi, 313 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2430-5. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8078-4737-2.) Get access Howell John Harris Howell John Harris University of Durham, Durham, United Kingdom Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Vol…
Increasing the policy and program relevance of results from randomized trials of home visitation
In the present article, we describe the efforts we have made to increase the relevance of findings from our randomized trials of prenatal and early childhood home visitation for the formulation of public policies and programs for pregnant women and parents of young children. We then consider the reasons that findings from well-conducted research often fail to influence policies and programs. Some factors influencing policymaking are especially no…
Application of solution‐focused interventions to nurse home visitation for pregnant women and parents of young children
This article describes the recent evolution of a component of the theoretical foundations of a program of prenatal and early childhood home visitation tested in three randomized trials during the past two decades, first in Elmira, New York, then in Memphis, Tennessee, and most recently in Denver, Colorado. We discuss the use of a solution-focused approach by the nurse home visitors in further operationalizing that component of the program model w…
Application of solution‐focused interventions to nurse home visitation for pregnant women and parents of young children
Lawyers against Labor: From Individual Rights to Corporate Liberalism
A Muted Fury: Populists, Progressives, and Labor Unions Confront the Courts, 1890-1937
Journal Article A Muted Fury: Populists, Progressives, and Labor Unions Confront the Courts, 1890–1937. By William G. Ross. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. xii, 339 pp. $39-50, ISBN 0-691-03264-5.) Get access Ruth O'Brien Ruth O'Brien John Jay College of Criminal Justice City University of New York, New York, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Iss…
Business Unionism" versus "Responsible Unionism: Common Law Confusion, the American State, and the Formation of Pre-New Deal Labor Policy
The emergence of the American Federation of Labor in the 1880s and its ideology of voluntarism or “business unionism” transformed the mainstream American labor movement. Voluntarism, however, had little impact on the formation of the pre-New Deal labor policy. I suggest that members of the progressive movement developed “responsible unionism” as an alternative to “business unionism” and that it was the progressives' alternative that shaped later …
Business Unionism” versus “Responsible Unionism”: Common Law Confusion, the American State, and the Formation of Pre-New Deal Labor Policy
The emergence of the American Federation of Labor in the 1880s and its ideology of voluntarism or “business unionism” transformed the mainstream American labor movement. Voluntarism, however, had little impact on the formation of the pre-New Deal labor policy. I suggest that members of the progressive movement developed “responsible unionism” as an alternative to “business unionism” and that it was the progressives' alternative that shaped later …
Differences in program implementation between nurses and paraprofessionals providing home visits during pregnancy and infancy: A randomized trial
OBJECTIVES: This study examined differences between nurses and paraprofessionals in implementation of a home visiting program for low-income, first-time parents during pregnancy and the first 2 years of the child's life. METHODS: Mothers were randomly assigned to either a nurse-visited (n = 236) or a paraprofessional-visited (n = 244) condition. Nurse- and paraprofessional-visited families were compared on number and length of visits, topics cove…
From a Doctor's to a Judge's Gaze: Epistemic Communities and the History of Disability Rights Policy in the Workplace
This article shows how an epistemic community's involvement in public policy-making provides an opportunity to use both a cultural and an institutional explanation of American political development without privileging either one. To do so, it traces the history of the public policy that provided disability rights in the workplace from World War II onwards. The article explores the emergence of the federal government's vocational rehabilitation pr…
A Sweat Shop of the Whole Nation: The Fair Labor Standard Act and the Failure of Regulatory Unionism
The history of the American welfare state is often recounted as a long line of missed opportunities. As the story goes, the absence of a labor party, or American exceptionalism, helped create a weak welfare state. Initially, some political scientists, labor economists, and historians attributed American exceptionalism to the pure and simple unionism of the American Federation of Labor (AFL). In the 1990s, however, a number of political scientists…
Other Voices at the Workplace: Gender, Disability, and an Alternative Ethic of Care
A Community Translational Research Pilot Grants Program to Facilitate Community-Academic Partnerships: Lessons From Colorado's Clinical Translational Science Awards
We have seen early success in both traditional and capacity building metrics: the initial investment of $272,742 in our first cycle led to over $2.8 million dollars in additional grant funding, with grantees reporting strengthening capacity of their community- academic partnerships and the rigor and relevance of their research
A Sweat Shop of the Whole Nation’: The Fair Labor Standard Act and the Failure of Regulatory Unionism”
The history of the American welfare state is often recounted as a long line of missed opportunities. As the story goes, the absence of a labor party, or American exceptionalism, helped create a weak welfare state. Initially, some political scientists, labor economists, and historians attributed American exceptionalism to the pure and simple unionism of the American Federation of Labor (AFL). In the 1990s, however, a number of political scientists…
Business Unionism" versus "Responsible Unionism: Common Law Confusion, the American State, and the Formation of Pre-New Deal Labor Policy
The emergence of the American Federation of Labor in the 1880s and its ideology of voluntarism or “business unionism” transformed the mainstream American labor movement. Voluntarism, however, had little impact on the formation of the pre-New Deal labor policy. I suggest that members of the progressive movement developed “responsible unionism” as an alternative to “business unionism” and that it was the progressives' alternative that shaped later …
Business Unionism” versus “Responsible Unionism”: Common Law Confusion, the American State, and the Formation of Pre-New Deal Labor Policy
The emergence of the American Federation of Labor in the 1880s and its ideology of voluntarism or “business unionism” transformed the mainstream American labor movement. Voluntarism, however, had little impact on the formation of the pre-New Deal labor policy. I suggest that members of the progressive movement developed “responsible unionism” as an alternative to “business unionism” and that it was the progressives' alternative that shaped later …
A Muted Fury: Populists, Progressives, and Labor Unions Confront the Courts, 1890-1937
Journal Article A Muted Fury: Populists, Progressives, and Labor Unions Confront the Courts, 1890–1937. By William G. Ross. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. xii, 339 pp. $39-50, ISBN 0-691-03264-5.) Get access Ruth O'Brien Ruth O'Brien John Jay College of Criminal Justice City University of New York, New York, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Iss…
Application of solution‐focused interventions to nurse home visitation for pregnant women and parents of young children
This article describes the recent evolution of a component of the theoretical foundations of a program of prenatal and early childhood home visitation tested in three randomized trials during the past two decades, first in Elmira, New York, then in Memphis, Tennessee, and most recently in Denver, Colorado. We discuss the use of a solution-focused approach by the nurse home visitors in further operationalizing that component of the program model w…
Application of solution‐focused interventions to nurse home visitation for pregnant women and parents of young children
Lawyers against Labor: From Individual Rights to Corporate Liberalism
Increasing the policy and program relevance of results from randomized trials of home visitation
In the present article, we describe the efforts we have made to increase the relevance of findings from our randomized trials of prenatal and early childhood home visitation for the formulation of public policies and programs for pregnant women and parents of young children. We then consider the reasons that findings from well-conducted research often fail to influence policies and programs. Some factors influencing policymaking are especially no…
Differences in program implementation between nurses and paraprofessionals providing home visits during pregnancy and infancy: A randomized trial
OBJECTIVES: This study examined differences between nurses and paraprofessionals in implementation of a home visiting program for low-income, first-time parents during pregnancy and the first 2 years of the child's life. METHODS: Mothers were randomly assigned to either a nurse-visited (n = 236) or a paraprofessional-visited (n = 244) condition. Nurse- and paraprofessional-visited families were compared on number and length of visits, topics cove…
Workers' Paradox: The Republican Origins of New Deal Labor Policy, 1886- 1935
Journal Article Workers' Paradox: The Republican Origins of New Deal Labor Policy, 1886–1935. By Ruth O'Brien. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xvi, 313 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2430-5. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8078-4737-2.) Get access Howell John Harris Howell John Harris University of Durham, Durham, United Kingdom Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Vol…
Workers' Paradox: The Republican Origins of New Deal Labor Policy, 1886-1935
A Sweat Shop of the Whole Nation: The Fair Labor Standard Act and the Failure of Regulatory Unionism
The history of the American welfare state is often recounted as a long line of missed opportunities. As the story goes, the absence of a labor party, or American exceptionalism, helped create a weak welfare state. Initially, some political scientists, labor economists, and historians attributed American exceptionalism to the pure and simple unionism of the American Federation of Labor (AFL). In the 1990s, however, a number of political scientists…
A Sweat Shop of the Whole Nation’: The Fair Labor Standard Act and the Failure of Regulatory Unionism”
The history of the American welfare state is often recounted as a long line of missed opportunities. As the story goes, the absence of a labor party, or American exceptionalism, helped create a weak welfare state. Initially, some political scientists, labor economists, and historians attributed American exceptionalism to the pure and simple unionism of the American Federation of Labor (AFL). In the 1990s, however, a number of political scientists…
U.S. Labor and Political Action, 1918-24: A Comparison of Independent Political Action in New York, Chicago, and Seattle
Journal Article U.S. Labor and Political Action, 1918–24: A Comparison of Independent Political Action in New York, Chicago, and Seattle. By Andrew Strouthous. (New York: St. Martin's, 2000. xii, 208 pp. $65.00, isbn 0-312-22185-1.) Get access Ruth O'Brien Ruth O'Brien John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Graduate Center, City University of New York New York, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jo…
Crippled Justice: The History of Modern Disability Policy in the Workplace
Journal Article Crippled Justice: The History of Modern Disability Policy in the Workplace Get access O’Brien Ruth, Crippled Justice: The History of Modern Disability Policy in the Workplace. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. xiv, 288 pp. $50.00 (cloth). $19.00 (paper). Steven Noll Steven Noll University of Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 45, Issu…
Home Visiting by Paraprofessionals and by Nurses: A Randomized, Controlled Trial
Objective. To examine the effectiveness of home visiting by paraprofessionals and by nurses as separate means of improving maternal and child health when both types of visitors are trained in a program model that has demonstrated effectiveness when delivered by nurses. Methods. A randomized, controlled trial was conducted in public- and private-care settings in Denver, Colorado. One thousand one hundred seventy-eight consecutive pregnant women wi…
Disability, Employment Policy, and the Supreme Court
A. An Epistemic Community of Rehabilitation 611 B. The Rehabilitation Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act ........ 615 C. The Supreme Court and Disability Employment Policy 619 II. (RE)ASSESSING SUPREME COURT JURISPRUDENCE 623 A. The ADA as a Disharmonious Statute 624 B. The Justices and the Disabled. Discomfort 625 C. The Justices and the ADA: Underlying Principles 625 III. THE JUSTICES AND THE WHOLE MAN 626 C O N C LU SIO N 633
Crippled Justice: A History of Modern Disability Policy in the Workplace
From a Doctor's to a Judge's Gaze: Epistemic Communities and the History of Disability Rights Policy in the Workplace
This article shows how an epistemic community's involvement in public policy-making provides an opportunity to use both a cultural and an institutional explanation of American political development without privileging either one. To do so, it traces the history of the public policy that provided disability rights in the workplace from World War II onwards. The article explores the emergence of the federal government's vocational rehabilitation pr…
Voices from the Edge: Narratives about the Americans with Disabilities Act
Fear, rage, courage, discrimination. These are facts of everyday life for many Americans with disabilities. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), has made working, traveling, and communicating easier for many individuals. But has this significant piece of civil rights legislation helped those with disabilities become fully accepted members of society? How does an individual deal with discriminatory situations that the law cannot, does not, o…
Translating a Research Intervention into Community Practice: The Nurse Family Partnership
Other Voices at the Workplace: Gender, Disability, and an Alternative Ethic of Care
A Community Translational Research Pilot Grants Program to Facilitate Community-Academic Partnerships: Lessons From Colorado's Clinical Translational Science Awards
We have seen early success in both traditional and capacity building metrics: the initial investment of $272,742 in our first cycle led to over $2.8 million dollars in additional grant funding, with grantees reporting strengthening capacity of their community- academic partnerships and the rigor and relevance of their research
Out of Many, One: Obama and the Third American Political Tradition
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