Politics for Social Workers

Stephen Pimpare has written a book that should be in the hands of every social worker. Much like Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals, it provides an indispensable guide for navigating the politics of today in order to create a more socially just world. Insightful and inspiring! -- Mark R. Rank, coauthor of <i> Poorly Understood: What America Gets Wrong About Poverty</i> Pimpare combines his political science background and public policy expertise in an easy-to-read tool kit for social workers seeking to become more strategically savvy when converting their practice-based critiques of inequality and social injustice into action for social change. A myth-busting but well-documented inspection of the inequities baked into the American political system. -- Mimi Abramovitz, author of <i>Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present</i> Politics for Social Workers provides a uniquely thorough explanation and in-depth analysis of the structure and functioning of our political system. Pimpare brings this analysis to bear on policies and political structures that create the inequities and marginalization that social workers seek to alleviate. The book will grant social work students a more critically informed perspective from which to approach their ethical obligations to social justice. -- Mary Hylton, Salisbury University