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Social work intervention in an economic crisis : the River Communities Project / Martha Baum, Pamela Twiss, editors.
- Title
- Social work intervention in an economic crisis : the River Communities Project / Martha Baum, Pamela Twiss, editors.
- Publication
- New York : Haworth Press, c1996.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | HN80.P6 S64 1996 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xxv, 220 p.; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Haworth social work practice
- Uniform Title
- Haworth social work practice.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Case studies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-208) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Foreward / David Epperson -- The loss of "big steel" and the consequences for the river communities -- The crisis at the community level: exploring Aliquippa, 1984 and before -- Steps in the process: prologue -- Historical involvement with the Mill Towns and the use of the concept of community -- The school and the river communities project: making a formal committment -- The phases of the project -- Aliquippa update -- The Electric Valley -- The Triborough study -- Duquesne -- Battered households / Hide Yamatani [and others] -- When unemployment strikes: the responses of women in households / Martha Baum, Barbara K. Shore, Kathy Fleisner -- Elderly parents and their underemployed adult children / Mary H. Page, Myrna Silverman -- Steeltown fathers: raising children in an industrial era / Phyllis D. Coontz, Judith A. Martin, Edward W. Sites -- The needs and concerns of youth in a depressed area: a brief report / Lambert Maguire, Hide Yamatani -- Selected community organization efforts: the Aliquippa Alliance, the Homestead Community development team, the Mon Valley development team -- The youth enterprise demonstration projects: Aliquippa, East Liberty, Monessen -- The river communities project seminar series -- Lessons learned: a critical analysis, an analysis of school-community relations -- Developing micro level policy: emergent themes -- The limits of micro level interventions: looking to state and federal governments -- Epilogue: a few last observations and an interview with Jim Cunningham: the Mill Towns today, the sequel to the River Communities project.
- ISBN
- 0789060361 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^96000357^
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library