Settlement Houses Under Siege: The Struggle to Sustain Community Organizations in New York City

by Michael B. Fabricant and Robert Fisher

Book Overview

Settlement Houses Under Siege: The Struggle to Sustain Community Organizations in New York City examines the past, present, and future of the settlement house in particular and nonprofit community-based services as a whole. Too often viewed as an artifact of the Progressive era, the settlement house remains today, in a variety of guises, a vital instrument capable of strengthening the social capital of impoverished communities. Yet it has...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231119313
• ISBN13: 9780231119313
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 289 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher