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The Future of the Maxwell Street Market was published in 1989 by the City of Chicago following a ... more The Future of the Maxwell Street Market was published in 1989 by the City of Chicago following a public process called a Community Assistance Panel,
with the additional participation of the Lambda Alpha Land Economics Society, of the American Institute of Architects, and of the Urban Land Institute. The document was prepared at the then-named Chicago Department of Planning. Albert Schorsch, III served as Principal Author of the report. The report provided a short history of Chicago's historic Maxwell Street Market, described the conditions and challenges then facing the market area, summarized vendor and retail participation, and made recommendations for a planning process to preserve the Maxwell Street Market.
The Davis-Bacon Act (1931) prescribes that prevailing wages be paid to workers on federally funde... more The Davis-Bacon Act (1931) prescribes that prevailing wages be paid to workers on federally funded construction projects. For sixty-three years this Act has both been defended as the linchpin of all federal wage laws and attacked as an instrument barring minority hiring on federally-funded local housing and community development projects--thus producing much rhetoric and some case law but little other agreement. With Labor Day, 1992, HUD initiated the Step-Up Program, a creative compromise on Davis-Bacon cumulating years of effort, which has allowed hundreds of public housing residents to gain employment rehabilitating public housing units in Chicago, and which is now being implemented in eight additional cities as a transition to mainstream employment.
How this compromise was shaped and how it continues to be implemented is an interesting case of how prepared and determined staffers and officials can make a difference, and how Labor, Government, and other organization representatives joined creatively to "make things work" despite partisan and ideological differences.
Msgr. Reynold Hillenbrand, 1904-1979, was a saintly and visionary Chicago seminary rector, pastor... more Msgr. Reynold Hillenbrand, 1904-1979, was a saintly and visionary Chicago seminary rector, pastor, liturgical leader, and “Specialized Catholic Action” chaplain who profoundly influenced generations of clergy and laity involved in such organizations as the Young Christian Students, Young Christian Workers, Friendship House, the Cana Conference, the Christian Family Movement, the Catholic Labor Alliance, and the La Leche League. Unlike many of his protégés, Msgr. Hillenbrand publicly supported the teachings of Humanae Vitae in 1968, an act which isolated him from some prominent friends and advisees, leading him after his death to be called a “papalist” by a distinguished former student. But also unlike a number of his protégés, Msgr. Hillenbrand did not so much synthesize differing social action techniques into the Catholic tradition, but approached from different Catholic sources a communion of holiness and action through an integrating and grounding focus on the Sacred Liturgy and upon the Gospel and the Magisterium, which then allowed Catholics to take great initiative in addressing social problems while maintaining their Catholic identity. This essay discusses a number of filters placed upon Msgr. Hillenbrand’s significance by his heirs, and then looks to reassess and reclaim Msgr. Hillenbrand’s approaches to the spiritual direction of lay leadership, families, parishes, clergy, and social action organizations.
This Dissertation situates a review of federal housing policy within a discussion of common sense... more This Dissertation situates a review of federal housing policy within a discussion of common sense, and focuses this discussion on the public policy issues involving the effects of changes in the homeowner's mortgage interest tax deduction. By considering questions relating to common sense, qualitative and quantitative induction, and certainty, it also begins to structure a rationale and method for the choice of appropirate policy analysis tools for this and related housing policy questions. Housing policy is examined in the context of chaos, akrasia, free market assumptions, and or rational expectations theory.
Journal of Planning Education and Research, Jan 1, 1996
Readers of this conference volume will profit from the strategy of reading the introduction, conc... more Readers of this conference volume will profit from the strategy of reading the introduction, conclusion, and chap-ter comments first before venturing within. This collection, edited by Harlan J. Onsrud, a professor of engineering (with studies also in law) at the University of ...
US Catholic Historian, Jan 1, 1990
This paper provides a short retrospective on the work of the Catholic interracial apostolate Frie... more This paper provides a short retrospective on the work of the Catholic interracial apostolate Friendship House (founded in Canada and the United States by Cathering de Hueck Doherty), from the point of view of the young women and men who volunteered in this apostolate starting in the early 1930s, while considering the implications of radical approaches to Catholic Action and the lay apostolate, by drawing on some of the diaries and other writings of these activists. Please see the friendshiphouse.org link below to access a copy of the paper.
Drafts by Albert Schorsch
Although commonly associated with therapeutic communication, “empathy” is a recently made-up word... more Although commonly associated with therapeutic communication, “empathy” is a recently made-up word, introduced into German medicine as “Einfühlung” in the late 1800s and into English as “empathy” just prior to WWI. Edith Stein, an early student of philosopher/phenomenologist Edmund Husserl and the second German woman to earn a PhD in philosophy, completed one of the first dissertations on empathy in 1916 after service in 1915 as a wartime nurse, but as a Jewish woman was denied professorships at German universities. After writing and lecturing widely on philosophy, community, and the roles of women, Stein, a philosopher, feminist, and later Carmelite, was murdered by the Nazis at Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1942, and was canonized as a saint by St. John Paul II in 1998. Stein’s Zum Problem der Einfühlung, On the Problem of Empathy, is said to be one among “Ten Neglected Philosophical Classics” in a forthcoming book from Oxford University Press edited by Eric Schliesser. As Stein’s work is more closely studied today, her unique perspective as both philosopher and nurse can inform current bioethical inquiry.
OBJECTIVES:
• Briefly review the current status of empathy in therapeutic communication and research.
• Draw from the history of the concept of empathy useful questions for current practice.
• Identify ethical implications of Stein’s philosophy on empathy and death.
The Future of the Maxwell Street Market was published in 1989 by the City of Chicago following a ... more The Future of the Maxwell Street Market was published in 1989 by the City of Chicago following a public process called a Community Assistance Panel,
with the additional participation of the Lambda Alpha Land Economics Society, of the American Institute of Architects, and of the Urban Land Institute. The document was prepared at the then-named Chicago Department of Planning. Albert Schorsch, III served as Principal Author of the report. The report provided a short history of Chicago's historic Maxwell Street Market, described the conditions and challenges then facing the market area, summarized vendor and retail participation, and made recommendations for a planning process to preserve the Maxwell Street Market.
The Davis-Bacon Act (1931) prescribes that prevailing wages be paid to workers on federally funde... more The Davis-Bacon Act (1931) prescribes that prevailing wages be paid to workers on federally funded construction projects. For sixty-three years this Act has both been defended as the linchpin of all federal wage laws and attacked as an instrument barring minority hiring on federally-funded local housing and community development projects--thus producing much rhetoric and some case law but little other agreement. With Labor Day, 1992, HUD initiated the Step-Up Program, a creative compromise on Davis-Bacon cumulating years of effort, which has allowed hundreds of public housing residents to gain employment rehabilitating public housing units in Chicago, and which is now being implemented in eight additional cities as a transition to mainstream employment.
How this compromise was shaped and how it continues to be implemented is an interesting case of how prepared and determined staffers and officials can make a difference, and how Labor, Government, and other organization representatives joined creatively to "make things work" despite partisan and ideological differences.
Msgr. Reynold Hillenbrand, 1904-1979, was a saintly and visionary Chicago seminary rector, pastor... more Msgr. Reynold Hillenbrand, 1904-1979, was a saintly and visionary Chicago seminary rector, pastor, liturgical leader, and “Specialized Catholic Action” chaplain who profoundly influenced generations of clergy and laity involved in such organizations as the Young Christian Students, Young Christian Workers, Friendship House, the Cana Conference, the Christian Family Movement, the Catholic Labor Alliance, and the La Leche League. Unlike many of his protégés, Msgr. Hillenbrand publicly supported the teachings of Humanae Vitae in 1968, an act which isolated him from some prominent friends and advisees, leading him after his death to be called a “papalist” by a distinguished former student. But also unlike a number of his protégés, Msgr. Hillenbrand did not so much synthesize differing social action techniques into the Catholic tradition, but approached from different Catholic sources a communion of holiness and action through an integrating and grounding focus on the Sacred Liturgy and upon the Gospel and the Magisterium, which then allowed Catholics to take great initiative in addressing social problems while maintaining their Catholic identity. This essay discusses a number of filters placed upon Msgr. Hillenbrand’s significance by his heirs, and then looks to reassess and reclaim Msgr. Hillenbrand’s approaches to the spiritual direction of lay leadership, families, parishes, clergy, and social action organizations.
This Dissertation situates a review of federal housing policy within a discussion of common sense... more This Dissertation situates a review of federal housing policy within a discussion of common sense, and focuses this discussion on the public policy issues involving the effects of changes in the homeowner's mortgage interest tax deduction. By considering questions relating to common sense, qualitative and quantitative induction, and certainty, it also begins to structure a rationale and method for the choice of appropirate policy analysis tools for this and related housing policy questions. Housing policy is examined in the context of chaos, akrasia, free market assumptions, and or rational expectations theory.
Journal of Planning Education and Research, Jan 1, 1996
Readers of this conference volume will profit from the strategy of reading the introduction, conc... more Readers of this conference volume will profit from the strategy of reading the introduction, conclusion, and chap-ter comments first before venturing within. This collection, edited by Harlan J. Onsrud, a professor of engineering (with studies also in law) at the University of ...
US Catholic Historian, Jan 1, 1990
This paper provides a short retrospective on the work of the Catholic interracial apostolate Frie... more This paper provides a short retrospective on the work of the Catholic interracial apostolate Friendship House (founded in Canada and the United States by Cathering de Hueck Doherty), from the point of view of the young women and men who volunteered in this apostolate starting in the early 1930s, while considering the implications of radical approaches to Catholic Action and the lay apostolate, by drawing on some of the diaries and other writings of these activists. Please see the friendshiphouse.org link below to access a copy of the paper.
Although commonly associated with therapeutic communication, “empathy” is a recently made-up word... more Although commonly associated with therapeutic communication, “empathy” is a recently made-up word, introduced into German medicine as “Einfühlung” in the late 1800s and into English as “empathy” just prior to WWI. Edith Stein, an early student of philosopher/phenomenologist Edmund Husserl and the second German woman to earn a PhD in philosophy, completed one of the first dissertations on empathy in 1916 after service in 1915 as a wartime nurse, but as a Jewish woman was denied professorships at German universities. After writing and lecturing widely on philosophy, community, and the roles of women, Stein, a philosopher, feminist, and later Carmelite, was murdered by the Nazis at Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1942, and was canonized as a saint by St. John Paul II in 1998. Stein’s Zum Problem der Einfühlung, On the Problem of Empathy, is said to be one among “Ten Neglected Philosophical Classics” in a forthcoming book from Oxford University Press edited by Eric Schliesser. As Stein’s work is more closely studied today, her unique perspective as both philosopher and nurse can inform current bioethical inquiry.
OBJECTIVES:
• Briefly review the current status of empathy in therapeutic communication and research.
• Draw from the history of the concept of empathy useful questions for current practice.
• Identify ethical implications of Stein’s philosophy on empathy and death.