Supported Employment in Maine: Youth in Foster Care

This report describes the employment experiences of 35 Maine youth in foster care. The study methods used included a quantitative analysis of the employment experiences of youth in care and a qualitative component that included interviews with five youth from the sample and four adults (a program job coach, a vocational case manager, a foster/adoptive parent, and a representative from a First Jobs business partner

Review of \u3cem\u3eOrdinary People: In and Out of Poverty in the Gilded Age.\u3c/em\u3e David Wagner. Reviewed by John M. Herrick.

Book review of David Wagner, Ordinary People: In and Out of Poverty in the Gilded Age. Boulder, CO.: Paradigm, 2008. $24.95 papercover

Review of \u3cem\u3eThe War on Welfare: Family, Poverty, and Politics in Modern America.\u3c/em\u3e Marisa Chappell. Reviewed by John M. Herrick.

Book review of Marisa Chappell, The War on Welfare: Family, Poverty, and Politics in Modern America. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. $45.00 hardcover

Review of \u3cem\u3eTending the Gardens of Citizenship: Child Saving in Toronto 1880s-1920s.\u3c/em\u3e Xiaobei Chen. Reviewed by John M. Herrick.

Book review of Xiaobei Chen, Tending the Gardens of Citizenship: Child Saving in Toronto 1880s-1920s. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. $50.00 hardcover

Assimilationist Theory and Immigrant Minorities in the United States and Canada: Implications for Social Services Development

This paper examines from a comparative perspective theories of cultural assimilation in the United States and Canada and speculates on the impact of these theories for developing social services, especially social services for immigrants and ethnic minorities

Review of \u3cem\u3eCivic Engagement: Social Science and Progressive Era Reform in New York City.\u3c/em\u3e John Louis Recchiuti. Reviewed by John M. Herrick.

Book review for John Louis Recchiuti. Civic Engagement: Social Science and Progressive Era Reform in New York City. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. $59.95 hardcover

Review of \u3cem\u3eThe Decline of Life: Old Age in Eighteenth-Century England.\u3c/em\u3e Susannah R. Ottaway. Reviewed by John M. Herrick.

Book review of Susannah R. Ottaway, The Decline of Life: Old Age in Eighteenth- Century England. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. $70.00 clot

Review of \u3cem\u3eOne Third of a Nation: Lorena Hickok Reports on the Great Depression.\u3c/em\u3e Richard Lowitt and Maurine Beasley (Eds.). Review by John M. Herrick

Book review of Richard Lowitt and Maurine Beasley (Eds.), One Third of a Nation: Lorena Hickok Reports on the Great Depression. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2000. $21.95 papercover

Review of \u3cem\u3eGender and the Social Gospel.\u3c/em\u3e Wendy J. Deichman Edwards and Carolyn De Swarte Giffors (Eds.). Reviewed by John Herrick.

Book review of Wendy J. Deichman Edwards and Carolyn De Swarte Giffors (Eds.), Gender and the Social Gospel. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2003. $49.95 hardcover,$21.95 papercover