Fabricant and Fisher's Settlement Houses Under Siege makes a needed contribution to our understanding of community-based settlement houses and the impact their funding sources have had on their capacity to build and strengthen community life... Fabricant and Fisher are committed to the notion of community building and the story they tell about how much settlements have been forced to retreat ... Read morefrom their traditional neighborhood and community building functions and commitments has profound implications. In many ways their message serves as a 'wake-up call' for social group workers... Social Work with Groups Fabricant and Fisher offer an important and attractive argument about how the relance of non profit social service agencies on government funding works against the core missionm of such agencies. Urban Studies A fascinating book-clear, incisive, a lesson for our times...Settlement Houses under Siege is a detailed, well-grounded and exciting text for students in social work, community education and devlopment, health and environmental studies.
Norma Baldwin Social Work and Review The book systematically analyzes the role of privatization and contracting for services to changes in the way settlement houses now function... This is a timely book which deals with an important topic. By stressing the need for institutions that build community solidarity, it makes an important contribution to the literature and to community practice. Social Development Issues In a time which is increasingly focused on individual services, clinical work and treatment, Fabricant and Fisher have written an important book that reminds us that social work has always struggled with the duality of individual service provision and social reform activities.
Daniel Kronenfeld Journal of Teaching in Social Work Fabricant and Fisher have given us an excellent problem analysis with an understanding about the underlying causes.
Bill Buffum Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare It should be required reading for students of philanthropy, public policy, and nonprofit administration.
Elizabeth Reid Nonprofit & Voluntary Sector Quarterly Show Less