Building the Unsettling Force

Community organizing for human rights provides a platform for social workers to be actively engaged in dismantling systems of oppression. Using a case study of Women In Transition, this article emphasizes strategies for organizing for economic human rights, including opportunities and challenges in using the human rights framework. Recommendations and implications for the social work profession are discussed

Community organizing · Human rights · Oppression · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Social rights · Sociology · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Social Work Education and Practice · Social Work

• Local and Global Poverty

  Open Access•Ankita Deka•Advances in Social Work•2012

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• Bienestar social

  Open Access•Carla Cubillos Vega•Arbor•2019

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• Community Organizing and the Detroit Water Struggle

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• Torture and terror post-9/11

  Open Access•Aloysia Brooks•International Social Work•2013

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• Bringing Human Rights Home

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• Truth Commissions and Procedural Fairness

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• Understanding the Risks of Child Neglect

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• Human Rights

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• Shattered Voices

  Teresa Godwin Phelps•Shattered Voices•2004

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• Community Organizing by African Caribbean People in Toronto, Ontario

  Open Access•Amoaba Gooden•Journal of Black Studies•2008

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• The Status of Community Organizing in 2001

  Open Access•Terry Mizrahi•Research on Social Work Practice•2001

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• Women of the Storm

  Open Access•Loretta Pyles, Judith S Lewis•Affilia•2007

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• Social Work and Human Rights

  Open Access•Jim Ife•Australian Social Work•2004

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• The Enemy Within

  Ruth Sidel•The Journal of Sociology & Social…•2000

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• The Decline of the Public Intellectual in Social Work

  Howard Jacob Karger, Marie Theresa Herndndez•The Journal of Sociology & Social…•2004

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• Poverty, early childbearing, and child maltreatment

  Open Access•Bong Joo Lee, Robert M Goerge•Children and Youth Services Review•1999

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• Grassroots Warriors

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• The Road Not Taken

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• Social Work Labor Market

  Marc Barth, M C Barth•Social Work•2003

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• Guidelines for Ethical Practice in Community Organization

  Donna Hardina•Social Work•2004

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• Understanding the Geospatial Relationship of Neighborhood Characteristics and Rates of Maltreatment for Black, Hispanic, and White Children

  Bridget Freisthler, Emily Bruce et al.•Social Work•2007

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• Social Work and Social Reform

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• Crazy for Democracy

  Open Access•Lynn Stephen•Political Science Quarterly•1998

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• Bringing Human Rights Home

  Ken Neubeck•Societies Without Borders•2009

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• Commissioning the Past

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• Of Means and Ends” Revisited

  Michael Reisch, Jane Isaacs Lowe•Journal of Community Practice•2000

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