They Call Me Myrtle! The Maverick Social Worker Fighting Back!
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Description
She’s not just another social worker walking a beat. She’s Myrtle, the maverick social worker hellbent on ripping out the roots of social inequality and intergenerational poverty. And now Myrtle’s turning the tables on oligarchic rule—one crazed billionaire at a time. Because when social disorder bubbles to the surface on the mean streets of Metropathologis, Special Agent Myrtle Callahan, wrings out her mop with a mix of grassroots organizing and working class solidarity. That’s justice, Myrtle Style!
The Tale
Overseen by Mr. Big, its shadowy CEO, Thatcher Industries has produced razor wire in the town of Metropathologis for as long as most local folks can remember. Its factory is as much a cornerstone of their hometown as fireworks on the fourth of July. But when corporate greed trumps loyalty, Mr. Big makes a ruthless decision to abandon the town and move operations overseas. With the mayor and local officials missing in action and social services offering only band-aids, Metropathologis faces certain ruin.
Enter Myrtle Callahan—MSW! Along with her by-the-book, fresh-out-of-the-academy partner, Melvin Gibstein, this maverick social worker takes to the streets to help save the good people of Metropathologis. For this, Myrtle must push the limits of community organizing to thwart Mr. Big and his horrible harem of corporate henchmen from destroying small town America.
In truth, this is an old fashioned tale of betrayal and treachery; a hometown, loyal and true, that wakes one day to find that the only global corporation it had ever known—had ever truly cared for—plans to abandon them. Maybe that’s just the way of the world, what some people call progress. Some people, that is, until they meet Myrtle, the bad ass social worker who knows sometimes you need to organize the masses to take down a single CEO and raise up a community fed by solidarity and stoked by resistance.
Department
Sociology
ISBN
979-8218727055
Publication Date
7-1-2025
Publisher
A Hole In the Sky Production
Disciplines
Sociology
Recommended Citation
Baronov, David, "They Call Me Myrtle! The Maverick Social Worker Fighting Back!" (2025). Fisher Bookshelf. 91.
https://fisherpub.sjf.edu/bookshelf/91