Work and Economic Justice: Connections with Social Work

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  • Louise Simmons University ofConnecticut

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This narrative explores the author's interest and activism in the arena of economic justice and how she integrates this into teaching and scholarship. Issues of work and the workplace, forms of economic justice activism, and analysis of economic issues that are relevant to social work have been incorporated into courses offered in the M.S.W. program with which the author is affiliated, and she has helped to make field placements available for students at local economic justice organizations. The author chronicles her involvement in a number of labor-community coalitions over a 25~year period and how these experiences have contributed to her approach to social work education.

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Simmons, L. (2014). Work and Economic Justice: Connections with Social Work. Reflections: Narratives of Professional Helping, 16(2), 36–46. Retrieved from https://reflectionsnarrativesofprofessionalhelping.org/index.php/Reflections/article/view/820

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