Neil Gilbert
Chernin Professor

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University of California, Berkeley
School of Social Welfare
120 Haviland Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-7400
(510) 642-4362 office
(510) 643-6126 fax
ngilbert@berkeley.edu
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Books and Edited Volumes

Books
Books have been reviewed in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Review of Books, Society, Partisan Review, The New Republic, The Atlantic Monthly and leading academic journals. Several works have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Italian.
  Neil Gilbert. A Mother's Work: How Feminism, the Market and Policy Shape Family Life (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008).
 
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 Society Notable Book (July/August, 2008).
 
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 Atlantic Selection (July/August, 2008).
  Neil Gilbert and Paul Terrell. Dimensions of Social Welfare Policy (6th edition) (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2005).
  * Translated into Korean (2007).
  Neil Gilbert. Transformation of the Welfare State: The Silent Surrender of Public Responsibility (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002).
  * Translated into Chinese (Truth and Wisdom Press, 2009).
  * Paperback edition (2004).
  Neil Gilbert and Paul Terrell. Dimensions of Social Welfare Policy (5th edition) (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2002).
  * Translated into Chinese (2003).
  Neil Gilbert. From Welfare State to Enabling State (in Korean) collected works edited and translated by Kim, Young Hwa, Lim, Sungok and Hgong, Jeong Won (Seoul, Korea: Hanul Publishing, 2001).
  Neil Gilbert and Paul Terrell. Dimensions of Social Welfare Policy (4th edition) (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1998).
  Neil Gilbert. Welfare Justice: Restoring Social Equity (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995).
  * Paperback edition (1997).
  * Chapter 4 reprinted in Mary Roth Walsh, Women, Men and Gender: Ongoing Debates (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997).
  Neil Gilbert, Harry Specht, and Paul Terrell. Dimensions of Social Welfare Policy, 3rd edition (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1993).
  Jill Duerr Berrick and Neil Gilbert. With the Best of Intentions: The Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Movement (New York: Guilford Publishers, 1991).
  Jeanne Pietrzak, Malia Ramler, Tanya Renner, Lucy Ford, and Neil Gilbert. Practical Program Evaluation: Examples From Child Abuse Prevention (Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1990).
  Neil Gilbert and Barbara Gilbert. The Enabling State: Modern Welfare Capitalism in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989).
  * Translated into Japanese (1999).
  Neil Gilbert, Jill Duerr Berrick. Nicole Le Prohn, and Nina Nyman. Protecting Young Children From Sexual Abuse (Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1989).
  Neil Gilbert and Harry Specht. Dimensions of Social Welfare Policy, 2nd edition, (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1986).
  Neil Gilbert. Capitalism and the Welfare State (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983).
  * Paperback edition (1984).
  * Chapter 6 translated into Italian by Ugo Ascoli in Azione Voluntaria e Welfare State (Bologna: Il Mulino,1987).
  * Translated into Korean (1994).
  * Translated into Japanese (Chou Hoki Shuppan: Tokyo, 1995).
  * New York Times Notable Book.
  Neil Gilbert, Henry Miller and Harry Specht. Introduction to Social Work Practice (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1980).
  Neil Gilbert and Harry Specht. The Dynamics of Community Planning (Cambridge, MA: Ballinger Publishing Co., 1978).
  Neil Gilbert and Harry Specht. Coordination of Social Services: An Analysis of Community, Organizational and Staff Characteristics (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1977).
  Neil Gilbert and Harry Specht. Dimensions of Social Welfare Policy (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1974).
  * Chapter 8 reprinted in Fred Cox, et al., Strategies of Community Organization (Itasca: Peacock Publishers, 1979).
  * Translated into Chinese (1999).
  Neil Gilbert. Clients or Constituents (San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 1970).
Edited Volumes
  Jens Alber and Neil Gilbert (Eds.). United in Diversity: Comparing Social Models in Europe and America (New York : Oxford University Press, 2010).
  Jill Duerr Berrick and Neil Gilbert (Eds.). Raising Children: Emerging Need, Modern Risks and Social Responses (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008).
  Neil Gilbert (Ed.). Gender and Social Security: What's Fair for Women (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2006).
  Neil Gilbert and Antoine Parent (Eds.). Welfare Reform: French and US Experiences (Rutgers: Transaction Publishers, 2004).
  Ramesh Mishra, Stein Khunle, and Neil Gilbert (Eds.).Modernizing the Korean Welfare State: The Productive Welfare Model (Rutgers: Transaction Publishers, 2004).
  Neil Gilbert and Rebecca Van Voorhis (Eds.). Changing Patterns of Social Protection (Rutgers: Transaction Publishers, 2003).
  Neil Gilbert and Rebecca Van Voorhis (Eds.).Activating the Unemployed (Rutgers: Transaction Publishers, 2001).
  * Translated into Chinese (China Labour and Social Security Publishing House, 2003).
  Neil Gilbert (Ed.). Targeting Social Benefits: International Perspectives on Issues and Trends (Rutgers: Transaction Publishers, 2001).
  * Translated into Chinese (China Labour and Social Security Publishing House, 2003).
  Neil Gilbert (Ed.). Combating Child Abuse: Comparative Perspectives on Reporting Systems and Placement Trends (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997).
  Jill Duerr Berrick, Rick Barth, and Neil Gilbert (Eds.). Child Welfare Research and Policy Review Bi-Annual: Volume II (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997).
  Richard Barth, Jill Duerr Berrick, and Neil Gilbert (Eds.). Child Welfare Research and Policy Review Bi-Annual: Volume I (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994).
  Robert Friedmann, Neil Gilbert and Moshe Sherer (Eds.). Modern Welfare States: A Comparative View of Trends and Prospects (Sussex, England: Wheatsheaf Books Ltd., and New York: New York University Press, 1987).
  Neil Gilbert and Harry Specht (Eds.). Handbook of the Social Services (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1981).
  Neil Gilbert and Harry Specht (Eds.). The Emergence of Social Work and Social Welfare, 2nd edition (Itasca: Peacock Publishers, 1981).
  Neil Gilbert and Harry Specht (Eds.). Planning for Social Welfare: Issues, Models and Tasks (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1977).
  * Translated into Chinese.
  Neil Gilbert and Harry Specht (Eds.). The Emergence of Social Work and Social Welfare (Itasca: Peacock Publishers, 1976).

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