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Book Reviews : Biting the Hand That Feeds Them: Organizing Women on Welfare at the Grass Roots Level. By Jacqueline Pope. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1989,161 pp., $39.95 (hardbound

Book Reviews : Biting the Hand That Feeds Them: Organizing Women on Welfare at the Grass Roots... at the Hand That Feeds Them: Women on Biting Organizing Welfare Level. Pub- the Grass Roots New York: By Jacqueline Pope. Praeger $39.95 lishers, 1989,161 pp., (hardbound). This short with its wonderful to do a number of book, title, promises an insider’s on the efforts of a local things-offer perspective change the a short welfare 1960s, rights organization during provide history welfare on social of the American and comment public system, plan- the first of this with stories from models. It fulfills ning part promise the of the Welfare Action Council to increase the Brooklyn struggles of women on welfare. The National Welfare Rights Organiza- power with sit- tion confronted welfare bureaucracies (NWRO) disruptive ins and with low-income clients who were informed and militant about their The Welfare Action Council was the Brooklyn rights. local NWRO in New York between 1967 and 1973. largest group City The author was active in the Welfare Action Council Brooklyn during maintained her ties to it after she moved to other the late 1960s and role an insider rich detail with the NWRO. Her as positions provides in the central of the book. an insider’s also However, report chapters faces that this book does not overcome. It assumes challenges always that the reader is familiar with an of I found array acronyms. myself for the first uses of NAC Action and Council) hunting (Neighborhood of YIA in for also offers causal (Youth Action), example. Pope expla- nations that seemed to be in an activist’s conventional grounded rather than in social science The stories she wisdom, tells, theory. are for feminist social workers. however, important the Hand that Feeds Them is less effective at its Biting accomplishing The historical discussion of the American wel- secondary purposes. fare is and the discussion of models seems system sketchy, planning to have been an that the flow of the first-hand afterthought interrupts of women for their story fighting rights. This book is recommended for those who are interested in public in women’s and in It welfare, activism, community organization. be as a would a useful resource case for courses on teaching study social welfare women’s or issues, community organization, policy, social change. MARGARET NIELSEN School Social Work of State Michigan University East Lansing, Michigan http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work SAGE

Book Reviews : Biting the Hand That Feeds Them: Organizing Women on Welfare at the Grass Roots Level. By Jacqueline Pope. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1989,161 pp., $39.95 (hardbound

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at the Hand That Feeds Them: Women on Biting Organizing Welfare Level. Pub- the Grass Roots New York: By Jacqueline Pope. Praeger $39.95 lishers, 1989,161 pp., (hardbound). This short with its wonderful to do a number of book, title, promises an insider’s on the efforts of a local things-offer perspective change the a short welfare 1960s, rights organization during provide history welfare on social of the American and comment public system, plan- the first of this with stories from models. It fulfills ning part promise the of the Welfare Action Council to increase the Brooklyn struggles of women on welfare. The National Welfare Rights Organiza- power with sit- tion confronted welfare bureaucracies (NWRO) disruptive ins and with low-income clients who were informed and militant about their The Welfare Action Council was the Brooklyn rights. local NWRO in New York between 1967 and 1973. largest group City The author was active in the Welfare Action Council Brooklyn during maintained her ties to it after she moved to other the late 1960s and role an insider rich detail with the NWRO. Her as positions provides in the central of the book. an insider’s also However, report chapters faces that this book does not overcome. It assumes challenges always that the reader is familiar with an of I found array acronyms. myself for the first uses of NAC Action and Council) hunting (Neighborhood of YIA in for also offers causal (Youth Action), example. Pope expla- nations that seemed to be in an activist’s conventional grounded rather than in social science The stories she wisdom, tells, theory. are for feminist social workers. however, important the Hand that Feeds Them is less effective at its Biting accomplishing The historical discussion of the American wel- secondary purposes. fare is and the discussion of models seems system sketchy, planning to have been an that the flow of the first-hand afterthought interrupts of women for their story fighting rights. This book is recommended for those who are interested in public in women’s and in It welfare, activism, community organization. be as a would a useful resource case for courses on teaching study social welfare women’s or issues, community organization, policy, social change. MARGARET NIELSEN School Social Work of State Michigan University East Lansing, Michigan

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Published: Dec 1, 1990

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