Social Work Today (Volume Vol. VII Number No. 9) (June-July 1940) (Magazine)

Frank C. Bancroft (Editor) and Social Work Today, Inc.

Verlag: Social Work Today, Inc., New York, NY, 1940

Beschreibung

Offered is the June-July 1940 (Vol. 7 No. 9) issue of "Social Work Today," a journal, as described, "of progressive social work, thought and action." Edited by Frank C. Bancroft and published by Social Work Today, Inc. out of New York City. A magazine measuring 8-3/4" by 11-3/4" and containing 32 pages including front and rear covers. Articles include: Editorial - The First Line of National Defense ("Trend now taking shape is for a war basis for the United States; toward armament spending on a vastly expanded scale; toward wartime attitudes and controls. [Franklin D.] Roosevelt is determined to use armament for recovery, as a means of getting people back to work"); Mr. President, We Want Peace by Clara Rabinowitz, Jewish Family Welfare Society, Brooklyn (with photo: "Following the Peace Campaign at Grand Rapids, a Scroll of One Thousand signatures of social workers was delivered to the White House [on] June 8th"); Social Workers and Civil Rights by Bertha C. Reynolds, Consultant in Staff Development ("Article One of the Bill of Rights is the charter of social work without which it could not do business - the Challenge of Today's War Hysteria"); Professional Values and County Jails; Meeting Social Need: A Program for Peace (with articles: Unmet Needs of Agricultural Workers by Carey McWilliams, Chief, Division of Immigration and Housing, State of California; Unmet Needs of Industrial Workers by Rev. William B. Spofford, Executive Secretary, Church League for Industrial Democracy; Disfranchised Workers in the Poll Tax States by Margot Gayle, Executive Secretary, Georgia Conference on Social Work [who writes, "the poll tax was explained away as a means of disfranchising the Negro. True, it does disenfranchise the Negro - and 64 percent of the white adults as well"]; The Challenge to Social Workers by Lucy P. Carner, Secretary, Division on Recreation and Education, Chicago Council of Social Agencies). In light to moderately worn covers. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 014745

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Social Work Today (Volume Vol. VII Number No...

Verlag: Social Work Today, Inc., New York, NY

Erscheinungsdatum: 1940

Einband: Magazine

Zustand: Very Good

Auflage: 1st Edition