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No deals on wheels: How and why the poor pay more for basic transportation
No full textThis article examines some of the hurdles faced by the poor in finding and keeping basic transportation. The article examines how the used car industry is organized, the difficulty the poor face in finding affordable used cars, the ins-and-outs of used car financing, and the organization of the fringe auto economy, including Buy-Here, Pay-Here dealers and subprime financing. Also examined are loosely regulated fringe auto insurers and auto title pawns. Lastly, the author offers solutions to help remedy the deleterious effects of the fringe auto economy. © 2003 by The Haworth Press, Inc
The De-Skilling of Social Workers: An Examination of the Impact of the Industrial Model of Production on the Delivery of Social Services
Full text linkThis article examines the effect of the industrial model of production on the delivery of social services. As part of this study, the effects of technology (used in its broadest sense) and system rationalization are explored, particularly as they result in the de-skilling of social workers. Lastly, the author makes recommendations for the development of alternative criteria for system rationality and the evaluation of efficiency in social service programs
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
The Sentinels of Order: A Case Study of Social Control and the Minneapolis Settlement House Movement, 1897-1950 (Minnesota)
No full textThe majority of the literature on American settlements focuses on Hull House, Henry Street Settlement, Chicago Commons, and South End House. Although these settlements had a significant influence on city and often, national politics, they comprised only a small portion of the national settlement house community. Little emphasis has been placed on the smaller settlements that spanned the distance from New York to Los Angeles.The dissertation examines the development of the Minneapolis settlement house community from 1897-1950. The Minneapolis settlement house movement existed in a somewhat typical middle range, middle-western city. As part of the examination, this disseration examines the conservative nature of the Minneapolis settlement houses and the role that social control played within the movement. Also examined is the conflict between the socialization function of the settlements and the altruistic motives of Minneapolis settlement leaders. The methodology used in this study is historical.Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-16T18:23:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1
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America's fringe housing market
No full textHousing is the largest expenditure in a typical family budget and the single largest family asset. According to the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University, two-thirds of Americans list their home as their single largest asset. Despite the fact that more than 60 percent of Americans are homeowners, there is a robust and dangerous fringe housing economy that encompasses everything from subprime to predatory lending, and from legal, quasi-legal to outright illegal speculation and lender-initiated scams. This article examines the differences between subprime and predatory lending; various kinds of home, refinancing and home equity loans; and housing speculation
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