
Mimi Abramovitz
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Abramovitz writings overarching themes include History US Welfare State, the Impact of Neoliberalism on the US Welfare State; Contemporary Social Welfare Policy Issues; Low Income Women’s Activism; and Class, Race, Gender and Social Welfare Policy.
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Examines findings from a survey of 295 National Social Work Voter Mobilization Campaign participants detailing the scale & scope of voter engagement in social work schools & and social service agencies.
Discusses Post-war welfare states and how they mediated 3 contradictions embedded in market economics
Discusses how welfare states mediate conflicts between the requirements for profitable production & effective social reproduction (or care work). Elaoborates on how social structures of accumulation and feminist theories reveal that from 1935 to 1975, welfare states underwrote the costs of social reproduction easing the crisis & strains of women's Depression-era and post-war care work.
Traces the history of the US welfare state from colonial times to the present from the perspective of women. Defines the welfare state as a site of struggle whose benefits contain the potential to regulate, but also liberate women. Uses lenses of gender race & class.
Documents how Neoliberal privatization (i.e., Managerialism) restructures non-profit and public sector agencies to increase measurement of productivity, efficiency, accountability & standardization.
Reflects the experience of nearly 3,000 frontline NYC human services workers who assess how business principles and practices in their agencies affect service delivery and the values and mission of the social work profession.