Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg

GERTRUDE SCHAFFNER GOLDBERG is Professor of Social Policy, Adelphi University School of Social Work, and was for a number of years the director of its Center for Social Policy. Professor Goldberg has published widely on issues of public assistance the feminization of poverty, comparative social-welfare systems, and social administration. Among her earlier books is The Feminization of Poverty: Only in America? (Praeger, 1990) and Washington's New Poor Law: Welfare Reform and the Roads Not Taken: 1935 to the Present.

MARGUERITE G. ROSENTHAL is Professor of Social Policy, School of Social Work, Salem State College. Her previously published works are on the Swedish welfare state, juvenile delinquency policy, and privatization.