The 1965 New York City Welfare Strike and Worker-Client Alliances
By the Rank and Filer, May 2012 In the 1960s, social workers at the New York City Department of Welfare formed one of the most militant and democratic unions in the country: the Social Service...
View ArticleTurning the Complex Upside Down: Rethinking Nonprofit Structures
By the Rank and Filer, March 2011 Here I explore various strategies for nonprofits to be more accountable to their constituents, drawing on the Revolution Will Not Be Funded and its accompanying...
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Managing the Crisis: Gay Men’s Health Crisis and the Growth of Nonprofits
By the Rank and Filer, May 2011 This short history details the formation of Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC) as the world’s first HIV and AIDS service agency in 1982. I examine the choice of GMHC’s...
View ArticleWarning Sharps: Betrayal and Identity in a Harm-Reduction Non-Profit
By the Rank-and-Filer, April 2011 This piece is a personal account of my first job in New York at a syringe exchange program in the South Bronx. The agency administration were abusive and racist to...
View ArticleWe Are Blessed: On RIPPD and Mental Health Activism
By the Rank and Filer, November 2010 I wrote the following piece for in social work school a couple years ago for a class on psychopathology. It is a favorable account of the organizing done by RIPPD,...
View ArticleThe History of Radical Social Work Unions
By The Rank and Filer, July 2012. The following are the notes from a presentation the Rank and Filer gave at a panel on nonprofit unions. Today we’re getting together to talk about the possibility of...
View ArticleWelfare Rights and Feminism
By the Rank-and-Filer, June 2012 This was a guest lecture I gave to an undergrad course on the Sociology of Gender and Sexuality on the history and importance of welfare rights struggles to feminism....
View ArticleRenewing Labor Struggle in NYC Social Services
By the Rank-and-Filer, December 29, 2012 The following is taken from a reflection document I wrote for the Labor Working Group of the Radical Social Work Group. Email rswg.lwg@gmail.com to get involved...
View ArticleWorking the Textbook Grind: A Workshop on Marxism for Social Work Students
By the Rank-and-Filer, October 2007 These are the notes for a participatory, popular education workshop on class exploitation, Marxism and the non-profit industrial complex for first-year Masters of...
View ArticleWhat is Austerity?
By the Rank-and-Filer, January 2013 These are the notes from a short (10 min) talk I gave to the Hunter Radical Social Work Group. “Austerity” is a really use framework to understand and talk about...
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