Confronting Injustice and Oppression: Concepts and Strategies for Social Workers

By David G. Gil and David Gil

Book Overview

More urgent than ever, David G. Gil's guiding text gives social workers the knowledge and confidence they need to change unjust realities. Clarifying the meaning, sources, and dynamics of injustice, exploitation, and oppression and certifying the place of the social worker in combating these conditions, Gil promotes social-change strategies rooted in the nonviolent philosophies of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.. He shares suggestions for transition policies intended to alleviate poverty, unemployment, and discrimination and examines modes of radical social work practice compatible with the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights and President Roosevelt's proposed "Economic Bill of Rights." For this updated edition, Gil considers the factors driving two crucial developments since his volume's initial publication: the Middle East's Arab Spring and the U.S. Occupy Wall Street movement.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231163983
• ISBN13: 9780231163989
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

a beautifully written book

David Gil writes beautifully on oppression in American society in a slim volume that should make a nice contribution to an academic course on oppression or simply for individuals who want to ponder American society and the kind of victim-blaming that seems ingrained in our Puritan heritage.