David Wagner

David Wagner
University of Southern Maine | USM · School of Social Work

Ph.D. City University of New York

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Education
September 1984 - January 1988
The Graduate Center, CUNY
Field of study
  • sociology
September 1974 - May 1976
Columbia University
Field of study
  • Social Work

Publications

Publications (39)
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This article provides an overview of the problem of poverty and downward mobility for the elderly in the United States from the 19th Century to today. Using the author’s research with the history of poorhouses (also known as poor farms, workhouses, almshouses, and later county homes and hospitals) he describes the situation of many older people as...
Book
This unique book depicts the stories of Americans born in poverty, who achieved national or international fame. Accessible to students and lay readers, this scholarly study describes poverty as a disability that typically stunts important areas of growth in childhood. Wagner shows how poverty hampers individuals and groups for their entire lives, e...
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The Code of Ethics of the NASW asserts that social workers have an ethical mandate to engage in social and political action in order to “ensure that all people have equal access to the resources, employment, services, and opportunities they require to meet their basic human needs and to develop fully” (NASW, p. 27). Though social work publications...
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An increasing variety of social problems have been declared universal problems that "cross all lines" or "can happen to anyone." This paper argues that, while these claims are well-meaning, they often contradict empirical evidence about the clustering of social problems and, hence, must be explored sociologically for their latent meanings. The pape...
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An idealized work ethic, which often stigmatizes very poor people as lazy or pathological when they are not engaged in wage labor, has dominated modern Western history. Yet components of our folklore about work, such as idle hands make for the devil's work, have rarely been tested. An exploratory ethnographic study of street people in a northeaster...
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Discusses the findings of an ethnographic study of 105 politically active homeless people that challenged the stereotypical view of homeless people as disaffiliated and disempowered. 65 of the Ss were interviewed. Collective social action was found to have a long-term impact on access to material resources, development of social networks, and const...
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Action research, a model combining research with activist goals and microlevel and macrolevel social work practice, has received little recent attention in the social work literature. This article reports on an action research project conducted by a major labor union and a university department of social work to assist dislocated workers in New Eng...
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Research on homelessness and recent social movement literature nave focused little attention on protest movements among the homeless and very poor. Indeed, most writing in this area concludes that this population is disempowered and disenfranchised. In this article, the impact of a “tent city” protest on homeless participants is analyzed through an...
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As the American economy changes from manufacturing to service industries, millions of workers are suffering the effects of "deindustrialization." Based on a joint union/university project, this article explores the impact of a plant closing and subsequent transition to a service based economy for more than 450 predominantly female textile workers....
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The importance of professional social workers maintaining a commitment to idealism and to social change has long been a stated goal of the profession. An ethnographic study of a group of social workers drawn to the profession by the possibility of affecting radical social change examines the possibilities of mediating professional status with polit...
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This article, based on research of a population of radical social workers active in the last decades, develops a theoretical framework for assessing radical movements among social service workers. In comparing these recent movements with those of the 1930s and 1940s, the author suggests a three-stage progression in which social unrest led by client...
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"A dissertation submitted to the Graduate Faculty in Sociology ... " Thesis (Ph. D.) -- City University of New York, 1988. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 494-508).

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