The Origins of Social Work
Continuity and Change
1st Edition
Published on 22. January 2020
320 pages
978-1-137-22919-9 (ISBN)
Description
This book traces the origins and development of social work as we now know it. Providing an ambitious synthesis of historical and international material, it explores the different faces of social work, whether defined by social policy developments, professionalization, changes in client group, or shifts in practice orientation. This is a unique book undertaken by an author with a strong international reputation and, as such, it promises to be a landmark for years to come in the social work literature.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-1-137-22919-9 (9781137229199)
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Figures
- Tables
- Foreword and Acknowledgements
- CHAPTER 1
- Introduction: Social Work's Histories
- Social work: changes and continuities
- Social works and their histories
- Problems with a single historical narrative
- The book's framework
- CHAPTER 2
- Before Social Work: to 1945
- Social work's cultural context
- Churches, charity, dependence and public disorder
- European context
- British developments
- The state begins to supplant the church
- Overall trends
- Industrialisation and urbanisation in Britain
- Municipalisation and the local bureaucratic elite
- Reform, rescue and the beginning of secularisation
- Social work emerges
- Overall trends
- The Poor Law
- Insurance and working-class mutual help
- Charity and social work
- Settlements
- From social casework to social work
- Japan: Western influences on traditional welfare cultures
- Groupwork and community work
- The Depression in the 1930s
- Conclusion
- CHAPTER 3
- Social Work and Welfare States: 1945-1970s
- Social work in Western welfare states
- British social work during the welfare state period
- British social work and social services departments
- The USA: welfare society?
- European developments in the welfare state period
- Social work's 'period of silence' in the 'second world'
- Developing countries and social development
- Conclusion
- CHAPTER 4
- Social Work in Question: 1970s-2001
- Social work at its zenith
- British social work under attack: the 1980s and 90s
- British social work under New Labour
- International trends
- Conclusion
- CHAPTER 5
- Perceptions of Social Work's Role
- Social work's social roles
- Poverty, unemployment and care
- Family, children and community
- Three groups of social work service users
- 'Problem families' in mid-twentieth-century Britain
- Services for elderly people
- Mental illness
- Conclusion
- CHAPTER 6
- Values and Philosophy
- Liberal, socialist and social democratic ideas
- Liberal ideas
- Socialist ideas
- Social democracy
- Welfare state ideas
- Citizenship and welfare in the 1980s
- Communitarianism, participation and empowerment
- Community: localism and centralisation
- The religious and the secular
- Conclusion
- CHAPTER 7
- Agencies, Law and Social Order
- Social work and social order
- State agencies and social work
- Britain
- Non-state social work and occupational social work
- Residential care
- Scandals and inquiries in the UK
- Conclusion
- CHAPTER 8
- Professional and Trade Union Organisation
- Why professionalisation?
- Professionalisation and unionisation
- Social work's professionalisation
- Unionisation in social work
- International organisation
- Conclusion
- CHAPTER 9
- Knowledge and Research
- Origins of social work knowledge
- Scientific charity, philanthropy and the Poor Law
- Ideas on groupwork
- Social pedagogy
- Settlements and social reform
- Casework ideas 1920-45
- Practice theories
- Psychological and social practice theories
- Social development emerges
- Clinical developments
- Social science theories towards empowerment and critical practice
- The impact of research
- Service evaluation
- Research movements
- Journals and dissemination of knowledge
- Conclusion
- CHAPTER 10
- Education and Training
- Education: the internationalist issue
- Early developments in the West
- Western social work education
- Western social work education 'in question'
- Social work or care?
- Global developments: a critique?
- Conclusion
- CHAPTER 11
- Social Work's Futures
- Continuities in social work
- Social order and caring power
- The state's role
- Gender and power
- Dealing with change in social work
- Perspective and context in practice
- Further Reading and Resources
- Modern texts
- Classic works
- Audiovisual
- Biographies
- Journals
- Organisations
- Places to visit
- Websites
- Bibliography
- Author Index
- Subject Index
