Settlement houses under siege : the struggle to sustain community organizations in New York City / Michael B. Fabricant and Robert Fisher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fabricant, Michael.

Contributor:

Fisher, Robert, 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human services--United States.

Human services.

Social settlements.

Human services--Contracting out.

United States.

Human services--Contracting out--United States.

Social settlements--United States.

Social settlements--New York (State)--New York.

New York (State)--New York.

Physical Description:

x, 360 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2002]

Summary:

The first updated discussion of settlement houses in nearly two decades, this book focuses on the externally driven difficulties of service workers and agencies in shaping services -such as the consequences of recent conservative social policies on agency life and the way in which the present political environment influences services through privatization. Internal problems of service agencies are also addressed.

Contents:

Part 1. History Matters: Settlements and Not-for-Profit Social Service Financing

1. The Settlement House in Context: From Henry Street to Head Start 15

2. Privatization, Contracting, and Not-for-Profits Since 1975 62

Part 2. Contracting and Corporatized Social Services: Voices from the Field

3. Fiscal Instability: Rewriting the Contract 99

4. Infrastructural Decline 119

5. The Pressures and Fissures of Social Service Work 136

6. Scarce Resources: Rationing and Narrowing the Content of Social Services 168

7. Navigating the Current Fiscal Turbulence While Struggling to Chart a Social Services Future 198

Part 3. Rethinking the Purposes and Practices of Not-for-Profit Social Services

8. From Corporatized Contracting to Community Building 233

Appendix Methodology of the Qualitative Inquiry 291.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [313]-341) and index.

ISBN:

0231119305

0231119313

OCLC:

47739521