Tess Schleitwiler
Biographic Data
| ID | 4100534 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tess Schleitwiler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tess |
| FAMILY NAME | Schleitwiler |
| SIGNATURE | SCHLEITWILER T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Social Work, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
From going on vacation to falling off a benefits cliff: Understanding the Range of Low-Wage Workers’ Perceptions of a Union-Negotiated Wage Increase
Social workers have long been active in social and political organizing to ensure a living wage. Yet recent social work research largely neglects efforts to raise wages and effective means for organizing to do so. This paper draws on in-depth interviews from a longitudinal study of low-wage hospital workers who formed a union and negotiated annual, incremental wage increases to achieve a $15 minimum wage floor to understand their perceptions of t…
Using research to build power: The Pittsburgh Wage study
Social workers seek to address numerous forms of oppression. While our research has focused on extensively documenting problems, solutions often remain out of grasp. Many schools of social work remain entrenched in traditional academic structures focused on narrow measures of academic success and impact. This article critiques these measures, proposing a framework for using research to build community power for societal impact. Using the Pittsbur…
Using research to build power: The Pittsburgh Wage study
Social workers seek to address numerous forms of oppression. While our research has focused on extensively documenting problems, solutions often remain out of grasp. Many schools of social work remain entrenched in traditional academic structures focused on narrow measures of academic success and impact. This article critiques these measures, proposing a framework for using research to build community power for societal impact. Using the Pittsbur…
From going on vacation to falling off a benefits cliff: Understanding the Range of Low-Wage Workers’ Perceptions of a Union-Negotiated Wage Increase
Social workers have long been active in social and political organizing to ensure a living wage. Yet recent social work research largely neglects efforts to raise wages and effective means for organizing to do so. This paper draws on in-depth interviews from a longitudinal study of low-wage hospital workers who formed a union and negotiated annual, incremental wage increases to achieve a $15 minimum wage floor to understand their perceptions of t…
Using research to build power: The Pittsburgh Wage study
Social workers seek to address numerous forms of oppression. While our research has focused on extensively documenting problems, solutions often remain out of grasp. Many schools of social work remain entrenched in traditional academic structures focused on narrow measures of academic success and impact. This article critiques these measures, proposing a framework for using research to build community power for societal impact. Using the Pittsbur…
From going on vacation to falling off a benefits cliff: Understanding the Range of Low-Wage Workers’ Perceptions of a Union-Negotiated Wage Increase
Social workers have long been active in social and political organizing to ensure a living wage. Yet recent social work research largely neglects efforts to raise wages and effective means for organizing to do so. This paper draws on in-depth interviews from a longitudinal study of low-wage hospital workers who formed a union and negotiated annual, incremental wage increases to achieve a $15 minimum wage floor to understand their perceptions of t…
Active listening (1 works) · Business (1 works) · Cliff (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works) · Economics (1 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (1 works) · Engineering (1 works) · Environmental health (1 works) · Falling (accident (1 works) · Geography (1 works)