Mimi Abramovitz
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Mimi Abramovitz is an American author, educator and activist. Abramovitz's work focuses on civil and welfare rights of those living in the United States, especially women. Education Abramovitz completed her undergraduate work at the University of Michigan, where she earned a B.A. in sociology in 1963. She went on to obtain her master's degree in social work in 1967 and her Ph.D. in social work from Columbia University in 1981.
Mimi Abramovitz's Published Works
Published Works
- Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present (1988) (596)
- Social Work and Social Reform: An Arena of Struggle (1998) (206)
- Under Attack, Fighting Back: Women and Welfare in the United States (1996) (112)
- Welfare Reform in the United States: gender, race and class matter (2006) (82)
- The largely untold story of welfare reform and the human services. (2005) (80)
- The Dynamics of Social Welfare Policy (2003) (72)
- Should All Social Work Students be Educated for Social Change? Pro (1993) (66)
- Privatization in the Human Services: Implications for Direct Practice (2015) (61)
- Explaining covid-19 performance: what factors might predict national responses? (2021) (51)
- Theorising the Neoliberal Welfare State for Social Work (2012) (43)
- The Community Loss Index: A New Social Indicator (2013) (35)
- The Feminization of Austerity (2012) (34)
- Double Jeopardy: The Impact of Neoliberalism on Care Workers in the United States and South Africa (2010) (29)
- Poor Women in a Bind: Social Reproduction Without Social Supports (1992) (25)
- Human Rights in the United States: The U.S. Welfare State: A Battleground for Human Rights (2011) (21)
- Saving Capitalism from Itself: Whither the Welfare State? (2004) (20)
- Moving Toward Racial Equity: The Undoing Racism Workshop and Organizational Change (2015) (18)
- Voting is Social Work: Voices From the National Social Work Voter Mobilization Campaign (2019) (15)
- Learning from the History of Poor and Working-Class Women's Activism (2001) (15)
- Regulating the Lives of Women (2021) (14)
- The Logic of The Market versus The Logic of Social Work: Whither the Welfare State? (2018) (14)
- The Reagan Legacy: Undoing Class, Race and Gender Accords (1992) (14)
- The Perils of Privatization: Bringing the Business Model into Human Services. (2020) (13)
- Economic crises, neoliberalism, and the US welfare state: trends, outcomes and political struggle (2014) (13)
- The Family Ethic: The Female Pauper and Public Aid, Pre-1900 (1985) (10)
- Integrating Content on Women into the Social Policy Curriculum: A Continuum Model (1982) (10)
- Case to Cause: Back to the Future (2016) (10)
- The Persistence of Residential Segregation by Race, 1940 to 2010: The Role of Federal Housing Policy (2020) (9)
- Blaming Women for Unemployment: Refuting a Myth (1984) (8)
- The Conservative Program is a Women's Issue (1982) (7)
- Taxes Are a Woman's Issue: Reframing the Debate (2006) (6)
- Putting an End to Doublespeak about Race, Gender, and Poverty: An Annotated Glossary for Social Workers (1991) (6)
- Social Policy in Disarray: The Beleaguered American Family (1991) (6)
- Wall Street Takes Welfare It Begrudges to Women (2009) (5)
- Reaganomics and the Welfare State (1983) (4)
- A Not so Hidden Agenda (1997) (4)
- Old Age Insurance (2017) (3)
- Triple Pay Off: The Leap to Teacher Program (2011) (3)
- Indicator Analysis for Unpacking Poverty in New York City (2014) (3)
- Political Ideology and Social Welfare (2013) (3)
- Privatization in the human services: The impact on the front lines and the ground f loor (2016) (2)
- Social Work and Social Reform (2016) (2)
- The Rise of Managerialism in the US: Whither Worker Control? (2020) (2)
- Poor Women, Poor Families: The Economic Plight of America's Female-Headed Households and Women and Children Last: The Plight of Poor Women in Affluent America (1988) (2)
- Community Loss: a new social indicator (2013) (2)
- Aid to Families with Dependent Children : Single mothers in the twentieth century (2017) (2)
- Response to Dean Bardill (1993) (2)
- From the Welfare State to the Carceral State: Whither Social Reproduction? (2017) (2)
- On the Front Lines: The Impact of Managerialism on the New York City Addiction Treatment Workforce (2021) (2)
- Unemployment: A Women's View (1990) (1)
- Race and the Politics of Welfare Reform. Edited by Sanford F. Schram, Joe Soss, and Richard C. Fording. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003. Pp. 392. $25.00 (paper). (2005) (1)
- Assessing the Business Model in Social Work: A validation of the Organizational Commitment to Managerialism Scale (2021) (1)
- Privatization in the Human Services: Implications for Direct Practice (2015) (1)
- Structural Racism, Managerialism, and the Future of the Human Services: Rewriting the Rules (2021) (1)
- Neoliberal Managerialism and the Human Services (2021) (1)
- A Feminist Perspective on the Welfare State (2017) (1)
- Managerialism: A workforce health hazard in human service settings. (2022) (1)
- Perspectives of Community Providers on Research Partnerships (2009) (0)
- Place Matters: new social indicators (2015) (0)
- Which side are we on? (2022) (0)
- The Rise of Managerialism in the US: (2020) (0)
- Review: Children, Race, and Power: Kenneth and Mamie Clark's Northside Center (1997) (0)
- Women and the Poor Laws in Colonial America (2017) (0)
- The Verne Weed Living Archive for Progressive Social Work (1990) (0)
- List of Contributors (2018) (0)
- Moving Toward Racial Equity: The Undoing Racism Workshop and Organizational Change (2015) (0)
- The Great Depression and the Social Security Act : The emergence of the modern welfare state (2017) (0)
- Book Reviews (2001) (0)
- Women and Nineteenth-Century Relief (2017) (0)
- Playing by the Rules: Welfare Reform and the New Authoritarian State (2018) (0)
- Restoring the Family Ethic : The assault on women and the welfare state in the 1980s and 1990s (2017) (0)
- The Colonial Family Ethic (2017) (0)
- Indicator Analysis for Unpacking Poverty in New (2014) (0)
- Poor Women and Progressivism : Protective labor law and Mothers’ Pensions (2017) (0)
- Guest Reviewers (2015) (0)
- “A Woman’s Place is in the Home” : The rise of the industrial family ethic (2017) (0)
- Book Reviews : Pitied But Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare, 1890-1935. By Linda Gordon. New York: Free Press, 1994, 433 pp., $22.95 (hardbound (1996) (0)
- Anti-Social Policies (1988) (0)
- 10. Toward a Framework for Understanding Activism among Poor and Working-Class Women in Twentieth-Century America (2019) (0)
- Social structures of accumulation and the US welfare state (2021) (0)
- Book Review: Setting National Priorities: The 1984 Budget (1983) (0)
- Place Matters: Mapping Community Loss As a New Social Indicator (2014) (0)
- Mothers of Invention (1997) (0)
- Book reviews (1994) (0)
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