| Description |
xiii, 327 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Part I: A Political Economic Perspective on Professionalization -- 1. A Political- Economic View of Professionalization -- Part II: the Emergence of a Professional Social work Enterprise: 1880-1916 -- 2. Historical Context -- 3. The Earliest Definitions of the Social Work Commodity -- 4. Fashioning Social Work into Casework -- 5. Training the Commodity Producers -- 6. Neither Charity nor Enterprise: The State of Social Work at the End of the Progressive Era -- Part III: The Growth and Consolidation of the Social Work Enterprise: 1916-29 -- 7. Historical Context -- 8. Fashioning the Social Work commodity -- 9. Funding and Elite Support for Socia l Work -- 10. Consolidating the Social Work Enterprise -- 11. Social Work Redefined -- Part IV: The Creation of a Social Welfare Industry: Social Work between 1930 and 1950 -- 12. An Overview of the Social Work Enterprise: 1930-50 -- 13. New Conditions, New Requirements: Misery Breeds Opporuntity -- 14. Social Work Politics in a New Social Welfare Industry -- 15. The Radical Challenge to Professional Social Work -- 16. The Professional Enterprise Prevails: Reshaping the Social Work Commodity -- 17. Expanding the Enterprise: Social Group Work, Community Organization, and the Formation of NASW -- 18. Social Work Education -- 19. Continuing Dilemmas of Profession Building. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [283]-313. |
| Subject |
Social service -- United States -- History.
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| Added Author |
Reisch, Michael, 1948-
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| ISBN |
0252015568 alkaline paper |
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