Catalyst: A Socialist Journal of Social Services [Four Consecutive Issues from 1980]

Mimi Abramovitz, Katherine Acey, Nancy Aires, Joel Blau, Peter Brest, Ken Byalin, Christopher Dykema, Mary Fitzpatrick, Cyndy Gilbertson, Lorraine Gutierrez, Arthur Maglin, Louis Medvene, Jan Orzeck-Byrnes, Beth Rosenthal, Brad Smith, eds.

New York: Institute for Social Service Alternatives, 1980. 5 ½ x 8 in. Offset. Perfect bound in photo illustrated wraps. 91, 96, 88, 88 pp.

Four consecutive issues of this radical social services journal founded in 1978 in New York City. The periodical was published by the Catalyst Collective, a group of socialist, anarchist, and radical feminist social workers (The Road Not Taken: A History of Radical Social Work in the United States. Michael Reisch, Janice Andrews. 187.). Articles in this collection focus on healthcare in Cuba and in Nicaragua, sexism in social work, the impact of racism on the family, “Women, Class and Survival in the City,” “Class Struggle and the Welfare State,” and an article on building community.

Issues of this critical journal of radical social work and alternative psychiatry, published and edited by critical social work theorists at the start of their careers. All very good.