Social Work in an Enterprise Society
Robert Pinker(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
Published on 6. September 1990
Book
Hardback
176 pages
978-0-415-04491-2 (ISBN)
Description
Over the last decade many key policy changes have occurred in the personal social services, from the Seebohm Reforms to the publication of the Griffiths Report on community care. In "Social Work in an Enterprise Society", Robert Pinker describes and analyzes those changes and concludes with a review of current trends and their likely implications for future policy developments. He calls for a restructuring of the personal social services and social work practice, advocating the replacement of generalist models with specialist training, thus encouraging social workers to follow selectivist rather than universalist policies in a more diversified economy of welfare. The collection will be important reading for both students and practitioners.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
320 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-04491-2 (9780415044912)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
The enterprise of social work; the role of social work in dealing with societal stress - capabilities and aspirations; political economy and social work; social work values and the social fund; social work education - home thoughts from abroad; social work and social policy in the 20th century - retrospect and prospect; the quest for community - from the settlement movement to the Griffiths report; social welfare in an enterprise society - new models and old expectations.