Settlement Houses Under Siege: The Struggle to Sustain Community Organizations in New York City

by Michael B. Fabricant and Robert Fisher

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Settlement Houses Under Siege: The Struggle to Sustain Community Organizations in New York City examines the past, present, and future of the settlement house in particular and nonprofit community-based services as a whole. Too often viewed as an artifact of the Progressive era, the settlement house remains today, in a variety of guises, a vital instrument capable of strengthening the social capital of impoverished communities. Yet it has...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0231119313

ISBN13:9780231119313

Release Date:December 2001

Publisher:Columbia University Press

Length:289 Pages

Weight:1.15 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences Public Affairs & Policy Social Science Social Sciences Social Services & Welfare Social Work Sociology Urban

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