Confronting Injustice and Oppression: Concepts and Strategies for Social Workers

Foundations of Social Work Knowledge Series

by David G. Gil

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.

Genres: Social Work

192 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 1998

Reviews

[Eric]

Passionate, insightful, and brilliant. There are three perspectives of social changes and policy; conservative, liberal, and radical. Gil is radical and exciting. Worth every page of reading, I did twice.

[Eric]

Gil is brilliant.