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Carolyn Needleman is a sociologist and associate professor in the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research, Bryn Mawr College. Her work on bureaucrats in boundary-spanning positions includes Guerrillas in the Bureaucracy: The Community Planning Experiment in the United States,co-authored with Martin Needleman.
Stephen J. Whitfield is associate professor of American studies at Brandeis University, and the author of Scott Nearing: Apostle of American Radicalism.
He is currently researching the sociology of agriculture.
Constance T. Fischer is associate professor of psychology at Duquesne University and a practicing clinical and consulting psychologist. She is the co-editor, with S.L. Brodsky, of Client Participation in Human Services: The Prometheus Principle,published by Transaction Books.
Tomás Martinez is chairman of the Department of Chicano Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and author of The Human Marketplace: An Examination of Private Employment Agencies.
Lupe Martinez has ten years of experience counseling low-income Chicanos.
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Needleman, C., Whitfield, S.J., Friedland, W.H. et al. Books in review. Society 17, 80–95 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02694831
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