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MIMI ABRAMOVITZ, DSW, MSWiabramov@hunter.cuny.edu395 Riverside Drive, Apt. 4ANew York, 10025(212) 866-2429Silberman School of Social Work, Hunter College, CUNY2180 Third Avenue New York, N.Y. 10035(212) 396-3575EDUCATION:Columbia University School of Social Work, Doctorate in Social WorkColumbia University School of Social Work, Master in Social WorkUniversity of Michigan, Bachelor of Arts in SociologyHONORSMSW Columbia University School of Social Work, with DistinctionBAUniversity of Michigan with High Honors and Distinction,Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Lambda Delta, & William H. Branstrom, Freshman Prize.ACEDEMIC EMPLOYMENT:2007-pres-Bertha Capen Reynolds Professor in Social Policy1988-pres-Professor, Masters Program, Hunter School of Social Work, CUNY1988-pres-Doctoral Program in Social Welfare, Graduate Center, CUNY1986-1988-Associate Professor, Hunter College School of Social Work, NY1981-1985-Assistant Professor, Hunter College School of Social Work, NYAWARDS2019Leadership Award, Building an Inclusive Economy in NYC , Labor Market Information Service,Center for Urban Research, CUNY Graduate Center , NYC January 172018Significant Lifetime Achievement in Social Work Education Award CSWE Nov 11, Orlando Fla.2016Fellow, American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare2015Top Social Work Leader Award, NASW. New York City Chapter2015Social Work Pioneer for contributions and leadership, NASW Foundation2013Honored as a Mentor, Women’s Council, Council on Social Work Education, Oct. Dallas, Texas2013Humanitarian & Leadership Award for contributions to social work, women, & human rightsAssociation for International Conferences. New York, April 19,2012Activist Scholar Award, Division of Sociology and Social Welfare, Society for the Study of SocialProblems, Denver Colorado, 8/162010- Honored, Cofounder of the Welfare Rights Initiative, 15h Anniversary Celebration, HunterCollege, CUNY, NY, May 272009Honored as a Mentor, Women’s Council, Council on Social Work Education, San Antonio, 11/8\2007Appointed to Bertha Capen Reynolds Endowed Chair at Hunter School of Social Work\2007Inducted into Columbia University School of Social Work Alumni Hall of Fame 4/192006Faculty of the Year Award, NYS Social Work Educators Association. 11/17.2004Distinguished Recent Contributions to Social Work Education, Council on SW Education, 2/27. 2004Feminist Scholarship Award, presented in honor of Mimi Abramovitz, Women’s Council, CSWE1997Under Attack, Fighting Back: Women and Welfare in the United States was named the"Outstanding Book" on the subject of human rights in North America by the Myers Center For TheStudy of Human Rights In North America1995National Association of Social Workers, New York City Chapter, PACE, Award for SignificantContributions to Social Services and Political Activism, 4/27VISITING SCHOLAR2014University of Lund, School of Social Work, Lund Sweden March 17-242013University of Zurich, Institute of Education Zurich Switzerland Sept 29 to Oct 202006Visiting Scholar Ryerson, York and McMaster Universities, Toronto, Canada March 22-242005Visiting Scholar, University of Washington, Seattle; University of Washington/Tacoma, May 3-5.BOOKSGendered Obligations: The History of Activism Among Black and White Working-Class Women Since 1900.(in process)2018 Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy From Colonial Times to the Present,Routledge, London and New York. 3rd Edition ( 2nd ed., 1996, 1st ed., 1988)
2014200620002The Dynamics of Social Welfare Policy, NY: Oxford University Press (and Joel Blau). (4th rev ed)Taxes Are A Women’s Issue: Reframing the Debate. NY. The Feminist Press (with Sandra Morgan)Under Attack, Fighting Back: Women and Welfare in the United States, NY: Monthly Review Press, 2ndrev edition.ARTICLES: ACADEMIC JOURNALS2021(submitted) Structural Racism, Managerialism and the Future of the Human Services: Re-Writingthe Rules, Social Work ( with Jennifer Zenick)2021 Assessing the Business Model in Social Work: A validation of the OrganizationalCommitment to Managerialism Scale Journal of the Society for Social Work and. Research(Work (with Jennifer Zenick and Steven Pirutinsky 2021Fran Baum, Toby Freeman, Connie Musolino, Mimi Abramovitz, Wim De Ceukelaire, JoanneFlavel, Sharon Friel, Camila Giugliani, Philippa Howden-Chapman Nguyen Thanh Huong, LeslieLondon, Martin McKee, Jennie Popay, Hani Serag, Eugenio Villar ( 2021)Explaining covid-19 performance: what factors might predict national responses British MedicalJournal ;372:n91 df2021The Persistence of Residential Segregation by Race: 1940 to 2010. Families in Society (w. RichardSmith) Families in Society 102 (1);5-32. (first published online 11/12/20 3894209234692020The Perils of Privatization: Bringing the Business Model into the Human Services. Social Work65(3):213-224 (with Jennifer u/10.1093/sw/swaa0242020How to Proceed with Professionalism and Managerialism In Social Work’ in New Practice(Neuepraxis. special issue) Neuwied. Germany2019Voting is Social Work; Voices from the National Social Work Mobilization Campaign, Journal ofSocial Work Education 19: 626-644 (with Margaret Sherraden, Katharine Hill, Tanya R Smith,Beth Lewis, Terry 080/10437797.2019.16566902019.Political Ideology and Social Welfare. NASW Encyclopedia of Social Work, NY Oxford UniversityPress( on line edition)2018Voting Is Social Work: Voter Empowerment and the National Social Work Voter MobilizationCampaign The New Social Worker, Fall.2018Logic of The Market Versus the Logic of Social Work; Whither the Welfare State Social Work andSociety 16(2) (Online Journal) Special Supplement. Proceedings of the Conference Ambivalences ofthe Rising Welfare Service State Hopes and Hazards of Fundamentally Realigning the Architectureof Welfare2016Case to Cause: Back to the Future, Journal of Social Work Education (w. Margaret Sherraden) v. 52Special Issue) S89 to S982015Privatization in the Human Services Implications for Direct Practice, Clinical Social Work JournalJune 43(3):283- 293 (with Jennifer Zelnick)2015Moving Toward Racial Equity: The Undoing Racism Workshop and Organizational Change. Journal ofRace and Social Problem (with Lisa Blitz) 7(2): 97-1102014Indicator Analysis for Unpacking Poverty in New York City, Journal of the Urban and RegionalInformation Association ( with Jochen Albrecht), 26(1): 5-12.2013Community Loss: A New Social Indicator (with Jochen Albrecht) Social Service Review. 57(1)(December) 677-774.2012Feminization of Austerity, New Labor Forum, Winter 21(1): 32-412010Double Jeopardy: The Impact of Neoliberalism on Care Workers In The United States and SouthAfrica (with Jennifer Zelnick) International Journal of Health Services, 40(1):97-11.2009“Wall St Takes Welfare It Begrudges Women" Affilia:A Journal for Women in Social Work, (May)(reprinted from Women’ eNews.2007Poverty and Economic Injustice, in Social Work Today (March/April) pp 27-282006Welfare Reform in the United States: Race, Class, and Gender Matters. Critical Social Policy 26(2): 336364. Reprinted in Leon-Guerrero Anna & Kristine M Zentgraf, Readings in Social Problems Pine ForgePress, 2009, pp 198-2122005The Largely Untold Story of Welfare Reform & the Human Services, Social Work, April 50 (2).175-186.2005Women and the Welfare State, in J. Herrick & Paul Stewart (eds.) Encyclopedia of Social Welfare History.Sage Publishers (December): 447-450.2004Saving Capitalism From Itself: Whither The Welfare State? New England Journal of Public Policy 2(F/W): 21-32.
1982197819773Fiscal Welfare, Robert L Barker (ed). The Social Work Dictionary.5th ed.Washington, D.C. NASW Press.Everyone Is Still On Welfare: Role of Redistribution in Social Policy, Social Work, 46(4) 297-308.Learning from The History of Poor and Working Class Women’s Activism. The Annals of the AmericanAcademy of Political and Social Science (Special Issue: Reforming Welfare, Redefining Poverty(577(September), pp 118-130Trabjo Social Y Transformation Social, Cuadernos Andaluces de Bienstar Social, April (IV) (# 6 &7) April2000) (Spanish translation of Social Work & Social Reform)Social Work and Social Reform: An Arena of Struggle, Social Work, 43(6) (November) 512-527 (Women: Get Ready For The Long Haul, Affilia:A Journal of Women and Social Work (12 (3) FallChallenging The Myths of Welfare Reform From A Women's Perspective. Social Justice 21(1).Should All Social Work Students Be Educated for Social Change? Journal of Social Work Education 29(1)(Winter,1993): 6-11.Poor Women in a Bind: Social Reproduction Without Social Supports, Affilia: A Journal of Women andSocial Work (7(2) (Summer): 23-44.The Reagan Legacy: Undoing the Class, Race and Gender Accords ,Journal of Sociology and SocialWelfare/19 (1) (March).91-110Beleaguered American Family: Social Policy in Disarray, Families & Society. 72(8 )(October) 483-96.Putting an End To Double-Speak About Race, Gender and Poverty: An Annotated Glossary For SocialWorkers. Social Work 36(5) (Sept) 380-386.Unemployment: A Women's View: Journal of Internat’l & Comparative Social Welfare 6( Spring/Fall).Making Gender A Variable in Social Work Teaching, Journal of Teaching in SW (Spring/Sum):29 -52.Privatizing the Welfare State: A Review, Social Work 31(July/August).Restoring the Family Ethic: The Assault on Women and the Programs of the Social Security Act, Genderand Ethnicity in Social Security, Rockefeller Institute Conference Proceedings, 6 Spr 1986, pp. 23-34.The New Secrecy: Limiting Democracy in the Welfare State, Social Policy 15(1)(Spring), pp.52-55.The Family Ethic and the Female Pauper: A New Perspective on Public Aid & Social Security Programs,Journal of Social Work Education 21(2)Family Ethic, Female Pauper & Public Aid Prior to 1900, Social Service Review 59(1)(Mar), pp.121-135.Social Benefits as a Right Social Development Issues 8(3) (June)(w. Joel Blau)Blaming Women for High Unemployment Rates: Refuting A Myth Social Casework 65(9), pp.547-553.Everyone’s on Welfare: The Role of Redistribution in Social Policy- Revisited, Social Work 28 (6)(November/December). pp. 440-445.The Politics of Privatization: Industrial Social Work & Private Enterprise, Urban &Social Change Reviewl6(1) (Winter), pp.13-19, (w I Epstein).Reaganomics and the Welfare State, Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, 10(4) (November),pp/563578, (w. Tom Hopkins).Conservative Program is a Woman's Issue, Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare, 9(3)(Sept):.299-324.Integrating Content on Women Into the Social Policy Curriculum,Journal of Education for Social Work,18(1) (Winter), pp. 29-34 (w. T. Hopkins, V. Olds, & M. Waring).Social Work & Women's Liberation: A Mixed Response, Catalyst No.3, pp.9l-103.Get Ahead at Your Company's Expense, Working Women, (August). Pp 17-18CHAPTERS IN BOOKS(In press) Abramovitz. Mimi. Social Structures of Accumulation and the U.S. Welfare State Terrance,McDonough David Kotz, and Cian McMahon(eds). Handbook on Social Structures ofAccumulation. Elgar Publishing(In press) Abramovitz, Mimi Political Ideology and Social Welfare. NASW Encyclopedia of Macro SocialWork, NY: Oxford University Press2020Abramovitz, Mimi, The Rise of Managerialism in the US: Whither Worker Control? Baines, D.and Cunningham, Ian (eds.) NO CUTS: Working in the Context of Austerity: Challenges andStruggle. Bristol, University Press (with Jennifer Zelnick), PP. 193-216.2020Abramovitz, Mimi, Democratic Socialism, Socialist Feminism and the US Welfare State, inGregory Smulewsicz Zucker and Michael Thompson (eds.) An Inheritance for Our Times: ThePrinciples and Politics of Democratic Socialism. New York: OR Books., pp .261-2772018Abramovitz, Mimi From the Welfare State to the Carceral State: Whither Social Reproduction in(eds.) A Kessler–Harris and M. Vaudagna. Democracy and the Welfare State, Columbia UniversityPress. pp, 195-226
4Abramovitz, M. & Zelnick, J.R. Privatization in the Human Services: Impact on the Front Linesand the Ground Floor in M. Fineman, U Andersson, and M. Mattsson (Eds) Privatization,Vulnerability, and Social Responsibility ; London: Routledge, pp.182-200Abramovitz, Mimi . When Does Race Matter? Examining Antiracist Organizational Change, inCarten, Pender Greene, and Siskind (eds.) Transforming Health and Human Service Systems, OxfordUniversity Press (with Liza Blitz) , pp. 67-87Economic Crises, Neoliberalism, and the U.S. Welfare State: Trends, Outcomes and Political Struggle.Global Social Work Education: Crossing Borders and Blurring Boundaries, Carolyn Noble, Helle Strauss& Brian Littlechild (eds.) Sydney University Press., pp.225-241Which Side Are We On? In Chris Jones and Tony Novak (eds), Critical and Radical Debates in SocialWork. Policy Press, Bristol/UK/Chicago/US, pp.27-34/Abramovitz, Mimi. Theorizing the Neo Liberal Welfare State. The Sage Handbook of Social Work in MelGrey, James Midgley & Stephen Webb (eds.) Los Angeles Sage Publications Ltd, Chap 2, pp. 33- 47Abramovitz, Mimi., The Welfare State: A Battleground for Human Rights in K Libal & S. Hertel (eds)Human Rights in the United States: Beyond Exceptionalism. “New York/Cambridge, UK: University ofCambridge Press, pp. 46-67.Abramovitz, Mimi. Women., Social Reproduction and the Neo-Liberal Assault on the US Welfare State , inChunn, Dorothy; Gavigan, Shelley P, The Legal Tender of Gender: Law, Welfare, and the Regulation ofWomen's Poverty (Onati International Series in Law & Society) Oxford, England: Hart PublishingFebruary, pp.15-46Abramovitz, Mimi and Robert Abramovitz, Perspectives of Community Providers on ResearchPartnerships. in Children's Mental Health Research The Power of Partnerships Kimberly EatonHoagwood, Peter S. Jensen, Mary McKay and Serene Olin (ed).Oxford University Press, Dec.Women in A Bind: The Decline of Marriage, Markets and the State, in A. Joseph& C.A Broussard (eds.). Family Poverty in Diverse Contexts. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press, pp.26-47Political Ideology & Social Welfare, Encyclopedia of Social Work, National Association of SocialWorkers, Washington. DC.Has Welfare Reform Worked? No in Controversial Issues in Social Policy, ( 3rd ed). Howard Karger,James Midgely, Peter Kindle & C Brene Brown (eds), Allyn & Bacon/Longman pp.205-216Neither Accidental or Simply Meanspirited: The Context for Welfare Reform.in Kilty & Segal (eds.) In The Promise of Welfare Reform: Rhetoric or Reality? Haworth pp.23-39Welfare Reform is a Sham" originally published in The Nation (1988). included as document inGwendolyn Mink & Rickie Solinger (eds.), Welfare: A Documentary History of US Policy & Politics,NYU Press, 2003.Learning from the History of Poor and Working-Class Women’s Activism, in Albeda &.Withorn (eds).Lost Ground: Welfare Reform, Poverty and Beyond, Cambridge, MA: South End Press, pp.163-178.Still Under Attack: Women and Welfare Reform, in N. Holstrom (ed). The Socialist Feminist Project: AContemporary Reader in Theory and Politics, NY: Monthly Review Press, pp.216-228.Toward a Framework for Understanding Activism Among Poor and Working Class Women in 20t CenturyAmerica. In G. Mink (ed), Whose Welfare?. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, pp. 214-248.Playing By The Rules: Welfare Reform and the New Authoritarian State, (withAnn Withorn) in A. Reed Jr. (ed) Without Justice For All. Boulder, Co: Westview Press, pp.151-174.Fighting Back: From The Legislature to the Academy to the Street, in L. Kushnick & J Jennings, A NewIntroduction To Poverty: The Role of Race, Power and Politics, New York: NYU Press, pp. 217-241.Unmarried Mothers Are Unfairly Blamed For Poverty, in L. K. Egendorf (ed) Poverty: Opposing Views.San Diego, Ca: Greenhaven Press, pp.72-79Women and Poverty, in Wilma Mankiller, Gwendolyn Mink, Maryusa Navarro Barbara Smith, GloriaSteinem, (eds). Reader's Companion to U.S Women's History, Boston: Houghton Mifflin pp.464-468Temporary Assistance To Needy Families, Encyclopedia of Social Work19th ed, 1997 Update,Washington, D.C.: NASW Press. pp,311-330Rediscovering The Lives of Women: Feminist Critique of the Social Science/Social Work Connection inD. Tucker et al (Eds) The Integration of Social Work and Social Science Westport, Ct. Praeger,:.218-28.Dependent on the Kindness of Strangers: The Issues Behind Welfare Reform, in Diane Dujon and AnnWithorn (eds), For Crying Out Loud, Boston South End Press ( 2nd ed), pp.287-294)Welfare Reform Should Not Punish Women for Having Children, in D. Bemder & B Loene (eds), Welfare:Opposing Views, San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, pp.157-163.Aid To Families With Dependent Children, Encyclopedia of Social Work, 19th Ed. Wash D.C.: NASWPress, pp183-192.
19951994198919881986198619805From Tenement Class to Dangerous Class To Underclass: Blaming Women For Social Problems in NanVan Den Bergh, (ed) Feminist Practice in the 21stCentury, NASW Press, pp. 211-232:Reprinted in CriticalSocial Welfare Issues: Tools For Social Work and Health Care Professionals by Arthur Katz,Abraham Lurie, Carlos Vidal (eds.) New York, Haworth Press, 1997 pp. 95-110Is Social Work Inherently Sexist & Racist? Controversial Issues in Social Policy, in H Karger & J. Midgley(Eds), Allyn and Bacon, BostonEveryone Is On Welfare: The Role of Redistribution in Social Policy' Revisited, in Ira C. Colby (ed),Social Welfare Policy: Perspectives, Pattern Insights, Chicago: The Dorsey Press), pp. 34-46.Women and Social Welfare Policy Syllabus, in Nancy Hooyman, Anne Summers& Leslie Leighninger (eds.), Women Working Together: A Course Syllabi About Women from Schools ofSocial Work (Council on Social Work Education and Arkansas College)Social Policy and the Female Pauper: The Family Ethic and the U.S. Welfare State," in Nan Van Den Berg& Lynn B. Cooper (eds.) Feminist Visions for SocialWork Education &Practice. (Silver Spring, NASW.Sexism in U.S. Government Labor Market Statistics. Report From Working Group on the Unemployed:Policies and Services, Proceedings, 13th Regional Symposium on Social Welfare, June 9-14, Turku,Finland (Helsinki: International Council on Social Welfare,) pp.177-189.Funding Through Tuition Assistance and Refund Programs in Barbara Wertheimer (ed), Labor Educationfor Women Workers, (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1980),.Ch.21, pp. 241-251.\ARTICLES: NEWSPAPERS AND POPULAR NEWS JOURNALS AND ELECTRONIC MEDIA2021Mimi Abramovitz and Deepak Bhargava. “A Real Chance to End Poverty: We Can Build onProgress in the COVID Recovery Act with Permanent Income Support for All” The Medium. TheThought Project /CUNY Graduate Center. https://medium.com/@iabramov2020 Mimi Abramovitz, Deepak Bhargava and Tammy Thomas Miles .TheUS Safety Net Is Degrading by Design, The Nation. ronavirus-social-services/2020 Mimi Abramovitz, Deepak Bhargava. Social Security for All: The pandemic has exposed thesystemic failures of America’s inadequate welfare state. It’s time to start over. The AmericaProspect. 9/22 ll/2020 Mimi Abramovitz, and Jennifer Zelnick. Social Work Agencies: Adopt the Business Model atYour Peril, The New Social Worker smodel-at-your-peril/2020 The Drawbacks of Treating Social Work Like a Business. NYN Media, September ng-social-work-business2018Voting is Social Work: Voter Empowerment and the National Social Work Voter MobilizationCampaign, The New Social Worker. Oct 2 ( online) with Terry Mizrahi2018 NASW Chapters Promote Activism Nation Wide, NASW News. February with Terr
MIMI ABRAMOVITZ, DSW, MSW iabramov@hunter.cuny.edu 395 Riverside Drive, Apt. 4A Silberman School of Social Work, Hunter College, CUNY New York, 10025 2180 Third Avenue New York, N.Y. 10035 . A New Perspective on Public Aid & Social Security Programs, Journal of Social Work Education 21(2) 1985
