Union Contributions to Labor Welfare Policy and Practice: Past, Present, and Future

(Routledge) This textbook, published as a special issue of the Journal of Workplace Behavioral Health, explores how organized labor in America and elsewhere contributed to the development of human services at work. It provides an overview of labor-sponsored social service programs and also highlights the labor movement’s major accomplishments in the delivery of workplace human services. Kurzman is a professor of social work and chair of the World of Work Specialization at the Hunter College School of Social Work, and a professor of social welfare at the City University of New York.