Politics for Social Workers: A Practical Guide to Effecting Change by Stephen Pi

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This book is a concise, accessible guide to help social workers understand how politics and policy making really work—and what they can do to help their clients and their communities. It offers informed, practical grounding in the mechanics of policy making and the tools that activists and outsiders can use to take on an entrenched system.

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The social work profession calls on its members to strive for social justice. It asks aspiring and practicing social workers to advocate for political change and take part in political action on behalf of marginalized people and groups. Yet this macro goal is often left on the back burner as the day-to-day struggles of working directly with clients take precedence. And while most social workers have firsthand knowledge of how public policy neglects or outright harms society's most vulnerable, too few have training in the political processes that created these policies.This book is a concise, accessible guide to help social workers understand how politics and policy making really work-and what they can do to help their clients and their communities. Helping readers develop sustainable strategies at the micro-, meso-, and macro-levels, this book is a hands-on manual to contemporary American politics, showing social workers and social work students how to engage in effective activism. Stephen Pimpare, a political scientist with extensive experience as a social work practitioner and instructor, offers informed, practical grounding in the mechanics of policy making and the tools that activists and outsiders can use to take on an entrenched system. He distills key research and insights from political science and related disciplines into a practical resource for social work students, instructors, and practitioners looking to deepen their policy knowledge and capacity to achieve change.

Author Biography

Stephen Pimpare is director of the Public Service and Nonprofit Leadership Program at the University of New Hampshire. He is the author of The New Victorians: Poverty, Politics, and Propaganda in Two Gilded Ages (2004); A People's History of Poverty in America (2008); and Ghettos, Tramps, and Welfare Queens: Down and Out on the Silver Screen (2017).

Table of Contents

PrefaceIntroduction1. The U.S. Constitution Is Undemocratic2. Our Representative Institutions Are Not Representative3. We're Terrible at Conducting Elections4. We Are Exceptional—but Not in a Good Way5. Most of Us Will Be Poor and on Welfare6. Everything Is Political7. Conservatism Is Not Conservative and Some of Us Are More Polarized Than Others8. Cruel and Unjust Policies Serve a Purpose for Someone9. Where You Can Go Depends on Where You've Been10. Look at What's Not Happening11. People Learn Lessons About Their Value from Their Interactions with Government Agencies12. The People Who Benefit Most from Government Are Most Likely to Claim They Don't Benefit at All13. People Like Lice and Cockroaches Better Than Congress14. The Thing They Say About Making Sausage Is True15. Presidents Are Weak and Command Too Much of Our Attention16. It Really Is the Economy, Stupid17. Judges Are Players, Not Umpires18. People Aren't Dumb but They Sure Are Ignorant19. There Is No Public20. There Is No View from Nowhere21. You Will Not Change Anyone's Mind22. Social Work Is Conservative23. Throw Sand in the Gears of EverythingConclusion: We Can Do Better. There Are Solutions.ReferencesIndex

Review

In Politics for Social Workers: A Practical Guide to Effecting Change, Professor Stephen Pimpare offers a historically informed and theoretically grounded assessment of current political issues . . . The book will be extremely useful to social work students and professionals who still feel uncomfortable talking openly about politics. -- David Hornung, PhD, LMSW, Assistant Professor, CUNY York College-MSW Program * The New Social Worker *Stephen Pimpare has written a book that should be in the hands of every social worker. Much like Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals, it provides an indispensable guide for navigating the politics of today in order to create a more socially just world. Insightful and inspiring! -- Mark R. Rank, coauthor of Poorly Understood: What America Gets Wrong About PovertyPimpare combines his political science background and public policy expertise in an easy-to-read tool kit for social workers seeking to become more strategically savvy when converting their practice-based critiques of inequality and social injustice into action for social change. A myth-busting but well-documented inspection of the inequities baked into the American political system. -- Mimi Abramovitz, author of Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the PresentPolitics for Social Workers provides a uniquely thorough explanation and in-depth analysis of the structure and functioning of our political system. Pimpare brings this analysis to bear on policies and political structures that create the inequities and marginalization that social workers seek to alleviate. The book will grant social work students a more critically informed perspective from which to approach their ethical obligations to social justice. -- Mary Hylton, Salisbury UniversityFor this reason, the book has relevance not just to practising social workers and social work students, but also to social work educators as it highlights that teaching advocacy to social workers in a meaningful way is not only possible, but highly relevant in these challenging times. * British Journal of Social Work *The book deserves a broad audience of laymen and scholars, instructors and students, practitioners and policymakers. * European Journal of Social Work *

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Stephen Pimpare has written a book that should be in the hands of every social worker. Much like Saul Alinsky's Rules of Radicals , it provides an indispensable guide for navigating the politics of today in order to create a more socially just world. Insightful and inspiring!

Details ISBN0231196938 Publisher Columbia University Press ISBN-10 0231196938 ISBN-13 9780231196932 Author Stephen Pimpare Format Paperback Imprint Columbia University Press Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States NZ Release Date 2021-11-23 US Release Date 2021-11-23 Pages 256 Year 2021 Publication Date 2021-11-23 UK Release Date 2021-11-23 Subtitle A Practical Guide to Effecting Change DEWEY 361.3 Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2021-11-22 We've got this

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