BOOK REVIEWS

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CHALLENGING OPPRESSION: A CRITICAL SOCIAL WORK APPROACH. Bob Mullaly. Ontario: Oxford University Press, 2002, 215 pp. Reviewed by Shereen Ismael. DOWNSIZING DEMOCRACY: HOW AMERICA SIDELINED ITS CITIZENS AND PRIVATIZED ITS PUBLIC. Matthew A. Crenson and Benjamin Ginsberg. Johns Hopkins University Press. 2002, 294 pp. Reviewed by Reviewed by Benjamin Shepard. RECKONING WITH HOMELESSNESS. Kim Hopper. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2003, 271 pp. Reviewed by Joel Blau. IMPLICATING EMPIRE: GLOBALIZATION AND RESISTANCE IN THE 21ST CENTURY WORLD ORDER. Stanley Aronowitz and Heather Gautney (Editors). New York, Basic Books, 354 pp., paper. Reviewed by Reviewed by Benjamin Shepard. POVERTY KNOWLEDGE: SOCIAL SCIENCE, SOCIAL POLICY, AND THE POOR IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY U.S. HISTORY. Alice O'Connor. Princeton University Press: 2001. Reviewed by David Wagner. WORK, WELFARE AND POLITICS: CONFRONTING POVERTY IN THE WAKE OF WELFARE REFORM. FrancesFox Piven, Joan Acker, Margaret Hallock, and Sandra Morgan (Editors). University of Oregon Press, 2002, 367 pp., paper. Reviewed by Betty Reid Mandell.