SOCIAL WORK
Organizing for Power and Empowerment
The Philosophical Foundations of Social Work
Second edition
FREDERIC G. REAMER
The Fight for Democracy
JACQUELINE B. MONDROS AND JOAN MINIERI
“A unique and important contribution to social work scholarship.”
“The second edition of this book is very timely.” —Terri Friedline, author of Banking on a Revolution: Why Financial Technology Won’t Save a Broken System
This second edition draws on extensive research to portray how social-action organizations have evolved over the past twentyfive years, building power in the struggle for social and economic justice. It explores how organizers increasingly target corporate influence and fight pervasive intersectional injustice. This book sheds important new light on foundational organizing practices and the challenges and opportunities for progressive social action today. JACQUELINE MONDROS
Second edition
is professor and dean emeritus of
—Edward J. Mullen, Columbia University
Social work rests on complex philosophical assumptions. Frederic G. Reamer explores how these issues bear on the purpose, methods, and perspectives of social work and their far-reaching implications for practice and scholarship. This second edition is revised and updated throughout to address contemporary challenges. It focuses especially on newer thinking about the role of non-Western philosophical perspectives and the relevance of philosophy to social workers’ commitments to multiculturalism, feminism, and antiracism. FREDERIC G. REAMER
is professor at the School of Social
Stony Brook University School of Social Welfare and a past
Work at Rhode Island College. His recent Columbia University
president of the National Association of Deans and Directors
Press books include Boundary Issues and Dual Relationships
of Social Work.
in the Human Services (third edition, 2020), Social Work Values and Ethics (fifth edition, 2018), and On the Parole
JOAN MINIERI
is the executive director of the Unitarian
Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock, a national
Board: Reflections on Crime, Punishment, Redemption, and Justice (2016).
funder of community organizing and civic engagement.
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