During the era of neoliberalism, the nonprofit services sector has simultaneously been a site
of (a) promarket restructuring and collective and individual resistance and (b) alternative …

One Hundred Years of Social Work is the first comprehensive history of social work as a
profession in English Canada. Organized chronologically, it provides a critical and …

Unlike the corporate sector, where resources to support job satisfaction are available, many
nonprofits experience challenges retaining qualified management staff. A better …

This study explores the potential of unions as a solution for addressing chronic low
compensation in government-funded nonprofit human services organizations. We used the …

Drawing on data collected as part of a larger qualitative study of the experience of
restructuring in the non‐profit social services in Canada and Australia, this article argues …

The ability of individual-level interventions to improve people's financial conditions is
compromised when the root causes of precarity develop at systems levels. While it can be a …

In 1965, more than 8,000 New York City welfare workers, including social service workers
and clerical staff, spent 28 frigid January days engaged in a strike. While pay, benefits, and …

Historical impacts and inconsistency have influenced the development of the field of
profession of social work. Independent social caregiver or social worker positions did not …

Through in-depth interviews with nonprofit workers and full-time union organizers in the
nonprofit sector, this qualitative study examines the causes, outcomes, and workers' …

Transformations in health care and attendant social work responses have eroded a health-
care social work role grounded in holism and social justice. Tracing events at the …