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First female Professor of Social Work at the University of Lagos and immediate past Head of the Department of Social Work, Faculty of Social Sciences, Prof. Chinwe Rosabelle Nwanna, has received the prestigious Social Work Education Award.
When student complaints were made against a high-achieving female scientist, her institution launched a one-man inquiry that found her blameworthy merely ‘for doing my job’, she writes: a ‘textbook case of institutional gaslighting’ that was a betrayal of scientific standards
In what he termed a “labor aristocracy,” Eric Hobsbawm saw echoes of what Marx and Engels had described. Hobsbawm posited that the anti-socialist, “workerist” tradition of union politics in the United States and the UK may be reflective of a powerful, elite layer of workers in the two countries’ labor markets. These white, often Protestant, male workers were comparatively highly paid and benefited from their position in capitalist production. Their rather advantaged market position put them at odds with more precarious workers who were more likely to advance universalistic programs for political transformation. Above: Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, December 1920
Dr. Jeremy Goldbach, a nationally recognized scholar on LGBTQ+ mental health and the inaugural Masters & Johnson Distinguished Professor in Sexual Health and Education at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, died Saturday, June 7, 2025 of cancer. He was 42.
While speaking in Washington, D.C., Secretary Rollins declared that there would be “no amnesty” for immigrant farm workers despite the President saying just days ago that he was willing to let these workers stay at their jobs. Instead, Rollins said that the mass deportations of farm laborers would “continue in a strategic way” and administration policy would be to “move the workforce toward automation and 100% American participation, which, again, with 34 million people, able-bodied adults on Medicaid, we should be able to do fairly quickly.”
BASW and ADASS have written to the Department of Health and Social Care urging them to bring forward the implementation of Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) in England and Wales without further delay.