Settlement Houses Under Siege - The Struggle to Sustain Community Organizations in New York City

Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1(14) Part 1. History Matters: Settlements and Not-for-Profit Social Service Financing The Settlement House in Context: From Henry Street to Head Start 15(47) Privatization, Contracting, and Not-for-Profits Since 1975 62(37) Part 2. Contracting and Corporatized Social Services: Voices from the Field Fiscal Instability: Rewriting the Contract 99(20) Infrastructural Decline 119(17) The Pressures and Fissures of Social Service Work 136(32) Scarce Resources: Rationing and Narrowing the Content of Social Services 168(30) Navigating the Current Fiscal Turbulence While Struggling to Chart a Social Services Future 198(35) Part 3. Rethinking the Purposes and Practices of Not-for-Profit Social Services From Corporatized Contracting to Community Building 233(58) Appendix Methodology of the Qualitative Inquiry 291(10) Notes 301(12) References 313(30) Index 343