Michael Reisch
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3924800 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Michael Reisch |
| PRENOMES | Michael |
| SOBRENOME | Reisch |
| ASSINATURA | REISCH M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Michigan |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 51 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 139 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 50 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1982 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Factors Contributing to Social Justice Action
Social Justice Action
Deconstructing DEI
Bridging the Social Justice Values to Action Gap Reconsidered
To “Elevate, Humanize, Christianize, Americanize”
Through close reading of primary sources, we analyzed social work’s role in the Americanization movement, a massive nation-building, nation-defining endeavor that flourished around the turn of the twentieth century. Although social work was a significant force in the rationalization and implementation of Americanization, its embrace of the project remains largely unknown within the field. We locate social work’s participation in the movement’s se…
Lessons from Social Work’s History for a Tumultuous Era
For more than a century, political-economic, demographic, and ideological forces have shaped US social work. Torn between social justice and status enhancement, the profession vacillated between advocating for social reform and seeking elite support. Ongoing contradictions between empowerment and expertise, social change and social control, and collaboration with and coercion of constituents reflect this tension. During the past 4 decades, neolib…
The year 1968
The year 1968 was a potential turning point in the history of US social work. After a generation of inward-looking conservatism, significant numbers of American social workers revived the radical tradition of the profession that the purges of the post-war McCarthy period had repressed. New social movements, particularly the civil rights movement, the anti-war movement and second-wave feminism, as well as the efforts of activists outside of social…
Assisting the least among us
Introduction to Special Issue of Journal of Community Practice
Routledge International Handbook of Social Justice
Social Work Education and the Neo-Liberal Challenge
During the past several decades, a ‘perfect storm’, resulting from the political–economic changes accompanying globalization, dramatic demographic and cultural transformations in US society and rapid technological advances, has created unprecedented challenges for the social work profession and social work education. These challenges include the widening gap in income and wealth both within the US and between the Global North and South; growing r…
Introduction
The Handbook of Community Practice
What is the future of social work
During the past three decades, the ascendant neoliberal paradigm has produced an unprecedented centralisation of wealth and power and the institutionalisation of a market-oriented philosophy throughout the world. Its underlying values have transformed the basic tenets of social work practice and undermined the profession’s ethical foundation. It has promoted scientific, empiricist ‘objectivity’ as the principal criterion for respected scholarship…
Teaching Social Welfare History and Social Welfare Policy From a Conflict Perspective
In schools of social work, policy courses are frequently taught assuming debates occur along a liberal–conservative ideological continuum in which liberals favor equitable distribution of societal benefits and burdens, whereas conservatives emphasize individual political and property rights and personal responsibility. This dichotomous approach often results in conflict being situated primarily outside the classroom and profession while ignoring …
Social Workers, Unions, and Low Wage Workers
Using primary and secondary sources, this article explores the relationship between social workers' and low-wage workers' efforts to improve their economic conditions, especially through unions. It examines ways in which the profession's mission has been interpreted and suggests some implications for social workers' roles in contemporary economic justice struggles
Social Work in the Workfare Regime
Australia and the U.S. are both liberal welfare states. During the past quarter century, they have begun the transition from a welfare to a workfare state, albeit at different rates and through different paths. Social work developed in each country in ways congruent with the local liberal welfare state, and as such, has been destabilized by the transition to the workfare regime. Drawing on neo-institutional theory and extant empirical research in…
Social Justice and Multiculturalism
Social justice has been a central normative component of U.S. social welfare and social work for over a century, although the meaning and implications of the term have often been ambiguous. A major source of this ambiguity lies in the conflict between universalist views of social justice and those which focus on achieving justice for specific groups. This conflict has been masked by several long-standing assumptions about the relationship between…
The Handbook of Community Practice
The “Other America” After Welfare Reform
This article examines the experiences of private, nonprofit social service agencies and their role in the “social safety net” following the 1996 welfare reforms. Among other concerns, the research suggests that declining welfare rolls are not indicative of widespread poverty reduction and increased self-sufficiency, as many nonprofits, especially those providing emergency food and shelter services, have experienced increasing demands during this …
Unintended Consequences
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996 dramatically transformed the structure and goals of the public welfare system in the United States. The vast body of research and evaluation generated by the 1996 welfare reforms largely overlooked nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) despite their substantial historical and contemporary involvement in the delivery of social services to low-income populations. Th…
The Road Not Taken
The Road Not Taken
Defining Social Justice in a Socially Unjust World
ONE OF THE IRONIES OF THE EARLY twenty-first century is that ideological struggles between and within nations have intensified a decade after the end of the Cold War. Today, proponents of diametrically opposed visions of society, secular and religious, march under the banner of social justice. As desirable social and political goals are depicted in starkly different forms, labels like “good” and “evil” become interchangeable and the meaning of so…
The Radical Voices of Social Workers
This article reports the findings of a national study of self-identified radical social workers who practiced between the 1950s and the present. Utilizing a variety of methods, the research attempted to assess respondents' perspectives on the field, their underlying theoretical orientations, and the development of their philosophy of practice. The findings indicated that the roots of respondents' ideologies vary, depending on their family origin,…
The Future of Community Organization in Social Work
The growth of community organization practice and its future prospects within social work have been shaped by a variety of factors related to profession building. This paper analyzes the development of community organization from a political-economic perspective and proposes ways for community organization to remain a viable force within the social work profession in the future
What is the future of social work
During the past three decades, the ascendant neoliberal paradigm has produced an unprecedented centralisation of wealth and power and the institutionalisation of a market-oriented philosophy throughout the world. Its underlying values have transformed the basic tenets of social work practice and undermined the profession’s ethical foundation. It has promoted scientific, empiricist ‘objectivity’ as the principal criterion for respected scholarship…
Of Means and Ends” Revisited
Dramatic changes in society will alter the environment of community practitioners in the 21st Century and generate new and more complex ethical dilemmas. Yet, the literature of community practice has paid little attention to ethical issues. This article explores some ethical issues associated with community practice and their implications for social work education. It also outlines a basic ethical framework for teaching students how to analyze et…
The Sociopolitical Context and Social Work Method, 1890–1950
This article explores the influence of the sociopolitical context on the development of social work practice methods during the first half of the twentieth century. It analyzes the relationship of the development of method in social work to such phenomena as the rise and fall of urban centers, the increasing diversity of the population, the growth of state power, and the rise of professionalism. It explores why social workers in the United States…
Welfare Reform and Community-Based Organizations
This paper discusses the effects of welfare reform on the ability of CBOs to respond to client and community needs. A stratified sample of 64 organizations providing youth, job training, behavioral health, shelter, and nutritional services in an urban neighborhood yielded 42 participants (response rate 66%). In-depth interviews of Executive Directors assessed changes in staffing, client population, program, funding, and inter-organizational relat…
Social Workers, Unions, and Low Wage Workers
Using primary and secondary sources, this article explores the relationship between social workers' and low-wage workers' efforts to improve their economic conditions, especially through unions. It examines ways in which the profession's mission has been interpreted and suggests some implications for social workers' roles in contemporary economic justice struggles
The “Other America” After Welfare Reform
This article examines the experiences of private, nonprofit social service agencies and their role in the “social safety net” following the 1996 welfare reforms. Among other concerns, the research suggests that declining welfare rolls are not indicative of widespread poverty reduction and increased self-sufficiency, as many nonprofits, especially those providing emergency food and shelter services, have experienced increasing demands during this …
The Radical Voices of Social Workers
This article reports the findings of a national study of self-identified radical social workers who practiced between the 1950s and the present. Utilizing a variety of methods, the research attempted to assess respondents' perspectives on the field, their underlying theoretical orientations, and the development of their philosophy of practice. The findings indicated that the roots of respondents' ideologies vary, depending on their family origin,…
Lessons from Social Work’s History for a Tumultuous Era
For more than a century, political-economic, demographic, and ideological forces have shaped US social work. Torn between social justice and status enhancement, the profession vacillated between advocating for social reform and seeking elite support. Ongoing contradictions between empowerment and expertise, social change and social control, and collaboration with and coercion of constituents reflect this tension. During the past 4 decades, neolib…
Ethical and Racial Conflicts in Urban-Based Action Research
Through the use of a case study of a joint faculty-student research project, this paper discusses how community-based action research, policy analysis, and community organizing can be synthesized in work with low-income communities. It outlines potential implications of this synthesis for both community practice and social work education
Deconstructing DEI
Assisting the least among us
To “Elevate, Humanize, Christianize, Americanize”
Through close reading of primary sources, we analyzed social work’s role in the Americanization movement, a massive nation-building, nation-defining endeavor that flourished around the turn of the twentieth century. Although social work was a significant force in the rationalization and implementation of Americanization, its embrace of the project remains largely unknown within the field. We locate social work’s participation in the movement’s se…
Introduction to Special Issue of Journal of Community Practice
Social Work in the Workfare Regime
Australia and the U.S. are both liberal welfare states. During the past quarter century, they have begun the transition from a welfare to a workfare state, albeit at different rates and through different paths. Social work developed in each country in ways congruent with the local liberal welfare state, and as such, has been destabilized by the transition to the workfare regime. Drawing on neo-institutional theory and extant empirical research in…
Unintended Consequences
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996 dramatically transformed the structure and goals of the public welfare system in the United States. The vast body of research and evaluation generated by the 1996 welfare reforms largely overlooked nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) despite their substantial historical and contemporary involvement in the delivery of social services to low-income populations. Th…
The Ideology of Some Social Work Texts
Fourteen introductory social work textbooks published during the 1970s were reviewed, by means of a comparative content analysis, to ascertain their ideological and sociopolitical assumptions. Virtually all were found to contain assumptions about the political-economic structure of society, the nature of social class and social class relationships, and the nature of social change. Contrary to our expectations, most authors stated their assumption…
United States
From Charity to Enterprise
Journal Article From Charity to Enterprise: The Development of American Social Work in a Market Economy. By Stanley Wenocur and Michael Reisch. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989. xvi + 327 pp. $29.95.) Get access Beverly Stadum Beverly Stadum St. Cloud State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 1, June 1990, Pages 322–323, https://doi.org/10.230…
The Uses of History in Teaching Social Work
Because they have grown up in an ahistorical culture, many of today's social work students do not challenge prevailing myths about our past and, consequently, dissociate present problems from their historical antecedents. They also often lack essential skills of analysis and critical judgement which are prerequisites for successful practice. The study of history can not only fill in the "missing pieces" in their pictures of out nation's past and …
Social Justice Action
Bridging the Social Justice Values to Action Gap Reconsidered
The year 1968
The year 1968 was a potential turning point in the history of US social work. After a generation of inward-looking conservatism, significant numbers of American social workers revived the radical tradition of the profession that the purges of the post-war McCarthy period had repressed. New social movements, particularly the civil rights movement, the anti-war movement and second-wave feminism, as well as the efforts of activists outside of social…
Teaching Social Welfare History and Social Welfare Policy From a Conflict Perspective
In schools of social work, policy courses are frequently taught assuming debates occur along a liberal–conservative ideological continuum in which liberals favor equitable distribution of societal benefits and burdens, whereas conservatives emphasize individual political and property rights and personal responsibility. This dichotomous approach often results in conflict being situated primarily outside the classroom and profession while ignoring …
Social Justice and Multiculturalism
Social justice has been a central normative component of U.S. social welfare and social work for over a century, although the meaning and implications of the term have often been ambiguous. A major source of this ambiguity lies in the conflict between universalist views of social justice and those which focus on achieving justice for specific groups. This conflict has been masked by several long-standing assumptions about the relationship between…
Professionalization and Vollintarism in Social Welfare
The Ideology of Some Social Work Texts
Fourteen introductory social work textbooks published during the 1970s were reviewed, by means of a comparative content analysis, to ascertain their ideological and sociopolitical assumptions. Virtually all were found to contain assumptions about the political-economic structure of society, the nature of social class and social class relationships, and the nature of social change. Contrary to our expectations, most authors stated their assumption…
The Social Work Profession and the Ideoloqy of Professionalization
The phenomenon of professionalization has been an exceptionally powerful force in Western industrialized countries for more than a century. "The professions are as characteristic of the modern world as the crafts were of the ancient," said Stephen R. Graubard in the preface to The Professions in America (1963). Talcott Parsons (1968) declared that "The development and increasing strategic importance of the professions probably constitute the most…
Rights and Goods
The Future of Community Organization in Social Work
The growth of community organization practice and its future prospects within social work have been shaped by a variety of factors related to profession building. This paper analyzes the development of community organization from a political-economic perspective and proposes ways for community organization to remain a viable force within the social work profession in the future
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The Uses of History in Teaching Social Work
Because they have grown up in an ahistorical culture, many of today's social work students do not challenge prevailing myths about our past and, consequently, dissociate present problems from their historical antecedents. They also often lack essential skills of analysis and critical judgement which are prerequisites for successful practice. The study of history can not only fill in the "missing pieces" in their pictures of out nation's past and …
The Social Welfare History State
From Charity to Enterprise
From Charity to Enterprise
Journal Article From Charity to Enterprise: The Development of American Social Work in a Market Economy. By Stanley Wenocur and Michael Reisch. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989. xvi + 327 pp. $29.95.) Get access Beverly Stadum Beverly Stadum St. Cloud State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 1, June 1990, Pages 322–323, https://doi.org/10.230…
From Charity to Enterprise
The Uses of Charity
Journal Article The Uses of Charity: The Poor on Relief in the Nineteenth-Century Metropolis. Ed. by Peter Mandler. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990. x + 259 pp. $29.95.) Get access Michael Reisch Michael Reisch San Francisco State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 2, September 1991, Pages 669–670, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079589 P…
Children at Risk in America
Social Work in the 21st Century
PART ONE: THE EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT Demographic Changes and Their Implications - Martha N Ozawa The Future Economic Landscape - Nancy Rose The Political Context of Social Work - Michael Reisch Social Work in International Context - James Midgley Challenges and Opportunites Poverty and Postmodernity - Mark J Stern The Impact and Implications of Multiculturalism - John F Longres Nonprofit Organizations, Social Policy and Public Welfare - Eleanor L B…
The Institute for Multicultural Research and Social Work Practice
This article addresses the significant role multicultural social work institutes can play in the development of social work practice. Such an institute can be a powerful source for researching, evaluating, and expanding social work knowledge and practice, educating and training human service professionals, analyzing and disseminating information critical to policy and professional development, and initiating and participating in change processes …
The Legacy of McCarthyism on Social Group Work
This paper explores the impact of McCarthyism on the ideology, education, practice, and public image of group work. The authors argue that the witchhunts that occured during the period and its climate of widespread fear purges and political conservatism diminished the gains the social work profession had made in the 1930s and 1940s through its participation in progressive activities and left the profession, particularly social group work ill-prep…
Bringing the Community into the Classroom
Jane Isaacs Lowe, Michael Reisch, Bringing the Community into the Classroom: Applying the Experiences of Social Work Education to Service-Learning Courses in Sociology, Teaching Sociology, Vol. 26, No. 4 (Oct., 1998), pp. 292-298
The Sociopolitical Context and Social Work Method, 1890–1950
This article explores the influence of the sociopolitical context on the development of social work practice methods during the first half of the twentieth century. It analyzes the relationship of the development of method in social work to such phenomena as the rise and fall of urban centers, the increasing diversity of the population, the growth of state power, and the rise of professionalism. It explores why social workers in the United States…
Under the Cover of Kindness
Journal Article Under the Cover of Kindness: The Invention of Social Work. By Leslie Margolin. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997. xvi, 216 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8139-1713-1.) Get access Michael Reisch Michael Reisch University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 2, September 1998, Pages 699–700, https://do…
United States
(Dis)Entitling the poor
Uncovering a Silent Betrayal
(1999). Uncovering a Silent Betrayal: Using Oral History to Explore the Impact of McCarthyism on the Profession of Social Work in the United States. The Oral History Review: Vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 87-106.
Ethical and Racial Conflicts in Urban-Based Action Research
Through the use of a case study of a joint faculty-student research project, this paper discusses how community-based action research, policy analysis, and community organizing can be synthesized in work with low-income communities. It outlines potential implications of this synthesis for both community practice and social work education
Welfare Reform and Community-Based Organizations
This paper discusses the effects of welfare reform on the ability of CBOs to respond to client and community needs. A stratified sample of 64 organizations providing youth, job training, behavioral health, shelter, and nutritional services in an urban neighborhood yielded 42 participants (response rate 66%). In-depth interviews of Executive Directors assessed changes in staffing, client population, program, funding, and inter-organizational relat…
Of Means and Ends” Revisited
Dramatic changes in society will alter the environment of community practitioners in the 21st Century and generate new and more complex ethical dilemmas. Yet, the literature of community practice has paid little attention to ethical issues. This article explores some ethical issues associated with community practice and their implications for social work education. It also outlines a basic ethical framework for teaching students how to analyze et…
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