UMass McCormack - The Center for Social Policy: Our Staff Publications

Our Staff Publications

2009

Glass Ceilings and Bottomless Pits
In Feminist Economics: Critical Concepts, Volume 2: Households, Labor, and Paid Work, edited by Drucilla K. Barker and Edith Kuiper , Routledge Major Work Series, 2009.
Authors: Randy Albelda and Chris Tilly

 

Welfare Reform
In Encyclopedia of Gender and Society, edited by Jodi O'Brien, Sage Publications, 2009.
Authors: Randy Albelda andJennifer Shea

 

Counting on Care Work: Human Infrastructure in Massachusetts
University of Massachusetts, September 2009
Authors: Randy Albelda, Mignon Duffy and Nancy Folbre.

 

Poverty in Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Community
The Williams Institute, UCLA, March 2009.
Authors: Randy Albelda, Lee Badgett, Alyssa Schneebaum and Gary Gates

 

Unaffordable "Affordable" Housing: Challenging the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Area Median Income
Progressive Planning: The Magazine of Planners Network, No. 180, Summer 2009
Author: Michael E. Stone
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Retail Jobs in Comparative Perspective
In Low-Wage Work in the Wealthy World, edited by Jerôme Gautié and John Schmitt, New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2009.
Authors: Françoise Carré, Chris Tilly, Maarten van Klaveren, and Dorothea Voss-Dahm.

 

The United States: Different Sources of Precariousness in a Mosaic of Employment Arrangements
In Cross-national Perspectives on Precarious Employment: Developing Common Understandings Across Space, Scale, and Social Location, edited by Leah Vosko, Martha MacDonald and Iain Campbell, London: Routledge, 2009.
Authors: Françoise Carré and James Heintz.

 

Inequality, Power, and Ideology: Getting it Right about the Causes of the Current Economic Crisis
Dollars & Sense, March/April 2009, No. 281.
Author: Arthur MacEwan
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Public-Private Partnerships: Lessons from a Partnership Among CCC/Morganti, Al-Balq' Applied University, Al-Huson University College and the USAID Jordan Economic Development Program
USAID, January 2009
Authors: Hussein Al-Wedyan, Terry Saunders Lane, David Lowther, Gwen El-Sawi
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2008

Bridging the Gaps Between Earnings and Basic Needs in Massachusetts
Massachusetts Benchmarks, 10( 2) 2008: pp. 13-19
Authors: Randy Albelda and Jennifer Shea
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Income Inequality
In Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History Volume 6, MTM Publishing, 2008.
Author: Randy Albelda

 

Migration and Traces of Religious Architecture in European Urban Areas: Perceptions of Youths
Diskurs Kindheits- und Jugendforschung, Heft 4-2008.
Authors: Roger Hewitt, Benjamin Hintze, Anders Vassenden, and Vicky Skiftou

 

2007

Under a Watchful Eye: Parents and Children Living in Shelters
Chapter 6 in Families and Children, Volume 1 of Child Poverty in America, edited by Barbara A. Arrighi and David J. Maume, Santa Barbara: Praeger Publishers, 2007.
Author: Donna Haig Friedman
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Governing Religious and Value Diversity in European Urban Spaces
Zeitschrift für Erziehungs-wissenschaft, ISSN: 1434-663X, (Heft 1) 2007
Author: Roger Hewitt

 

Seeing Whiteness through the Blizzard: Issues in Research on White Communities
Athanor, “Special Issue, White Matters,”Anno XVII, nuova serie, n.10, 2006-2007, ISSN 88-8353-558-8, pp 41-51 2007
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Noteworthy News

Françoise Carré Discusses President Obama's Jobs Summit on NECN
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Through funding from the Hyams Foundation and the Sociological Initiatives Fund, the Center for Social Policy contributed to this CHAPA Briefing Paper, authored by Ann Verrilli: The Massachusetts Rental Voucher Program: Maintaining the State’s Primary Homeless Prevention Tool, June
October 28, 2009
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Revenue Committee’s Subcommittee on Tax Expenditure Budgets:
Randy Albelda's testimony on Understanding and Reforming Tax Expenditures to the Massachusetts Legislature's Committee on Revenue.
October 28, 2009
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"Connecting Vulnerable Job Seekers with Employers." 2009.
Françoise Carré. Diversity Executive.com. September 13.
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Creative Economy Initiative:
Counting On Care Work: Human Infrastructure in Massachusetts by Randy Albelda, Mignon Duffy and Nancy Folbre
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FEATURED VIDEO from Reshaping Poverty Policy Conference
Youth Voices

 

Progressive Planning: The Magazine of Planners Network article:
Unaffordable "Affordable" Housing: Challenging the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Area Median Income
by Michael E. Stone

 

Citizen Lobbyists Speaking OUT for Real Health Care Reform.
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