Episodes
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. At the turn of the last century, Edith Abbott and the Great Ladies of Halsted Street conducted research on job conditions in the major industrial sectors of the time. Their careful empirical analysis of the employment circumstances of low-wage workers many of whom were low-income mothers provided a foundation for employer reforms...
Published 08/24/09
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. At the turn of the last century, Edith Abbott and the Great Ladies of Halsted Street conducted research on job conditions in the major industrial sectors of the time. Their careful empirical analysis of the employment circumstances of low-wage workers many of whom were low-income mothers provided a foundation for employer reforms...
Published 08/24/09
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. At the turn of the last century, Edith Abbott and the Great Ladies of Halsted Street conducted research on job conditions in the major industrial sectors of the time. Their careful empirical analysis of the employment circumstances of low-wage workers many of whom were low-income mothers provided a foundation for employer reforms...
Published 08/24/09
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. The prevalence of managed care and short-term therapies has created new needs and challenges for social work practitioners in the 21st century. Long at the forefront of shaping social work education and practice, the Faculty and Field Staff of the School of Social Service Administration recently have implemented an innovative...
Published 08/20/09
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. William Schulz…has done more than anyone in the American human rights movement to make human rights issues known in the United States -- The New York Review of Books, June, 2002.From refugee camps of Darfur, Sudan, to the poorest villages in India; from the prison cells of Monrovia, Liberia, to the business suites of Hong Kong to...
Published 07/31/09
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Scott W. Allard, Associate Professor in the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago and author of the book, Out of Reach: Place, Poverty, and the New American Welfare State discusses the impact of the current economic crisis on agencies serving the poor.
Published 07/31/09
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. The SSA Centennial marks 100 years of field-shaping research and service. Join human service pioneers, philanthropists, social service leaders, and distinguished SSA alumni and friends in a celebration of our rich past and a renewal of our commitment to enriching the discipline and illuminating solutions for society. We will...
Published 07/31/09
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. The SSA Centennial marks 100 years of field-shaping research and service. Join human service pioneers, philanthropists, social service leaders, and distinguished SSA alumni and friends in a celebration of our rich past and a renewal of our commitment to enriching the discipline and illuminating solutions for society. We will...
Published 07/31/09