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One hundred years of social work : a history of the profession in English Canada, 1900-2000 / Therese Jennison and Colleen Lundy.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: [Waterloo, Ont.] : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ©2011 2011)Description: 1 online resource (xxi, 351 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781554582808
  • 1554582806
  • 155458342X
  • 9781554583423
  • 1554581869
  • 9781554581863
  • 1282167057
  • 9781282167056
  • 9786613810120
  • 6613810126
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 361.3/0971 22
LOC classification:
  • HV105 .J45 2010eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Responding to Industrial Capitalism and Setting the Stage for Professional Social Work, 1880-1924 -- Pursuing Professional Status, 1924-29 -- Face to Face with Poverty: Social Work in the Depression, 1930-9 -- Social Work in the War Years, 1939-45: Expansion and Consolidation -- Postwar Reconstruction and Civil Defence, 1940-60 -- Social Work in the Cold War Era, 1940-60: Radicalism and Repression -- A Conservative Era in Social Work: The 1950s -- The Struggle for Workplace Improvements and Standards: The Role of Unions and Professional Associations -- Provincial Autonomy and Reorganization in the CASW, 1950-65 -- Advancing Social Work Education, 1950-70 -- Legal Regulation of Social Work: The Last Stage in Professionalization -- Staying the Course: Choosing Professional Status over Progressive Politics -- Social Work in a Declining Welfare State, 1974-2000 -- One Hundred Years of Social Work: Looking Back and Moving Forward into the Twenty-First Century -- Appendix A CASW Branches, 1927-58 -- Appendix B CASW Presidents, 1962-2001.
Summary: One Hundred Years of Social Work is the first comprehensive history of social work as a profession in English Canada. Organized chronologically, it provides a critical and compelling look at the internal struggles and debates in the social work profession over the course of a century and investigates the responses of social workers to several important events. A central theme in the book is the long-standing struggle of the professional association (the Canadian Association of Social Workers) and individual social workers to reconcile advancement of professional status with the promotion social action. The book chronicles the early history of the secularization and professionalization of social work and examines social workers roles during both world wars, the Depression, and in the era of postwar reconstruction. It includes sections on civil defence, the Cold War, unionization, social work education, regulation of the profession, and other key developments up to the end of the twentieth century.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-330) and index.

Responding to Industrial Capitalism and Setting the Stage for Professional Social Work, 1880-1924 -- Pursuing Professional Status, 1924-29 -- Face to Face with Poverty: Social Work in the Depression, 1930-9 -- Social Work in the War Years, 1939-45: Expansion and Consolidation -- Postwar Reconstruction and Civil Defence, 1940-60 -- Social Work in the Cold War Era, 1940-60: Radicalism and Repression -- A Conservative Era in Social Work: The 1950s -- The Struggle for Workplace Improvements and Standards: The Role of Unions and Professional Associations -- Provincial Autonomy and Reorganization in the CASW, 1950-65 -- Advancing Social Work Education, 1950-70 -- Legal Regulation of Social Work: The Last Stage in Professionalization -- Staying the Course: Choosing Professional Status over Progressive Politics -- Social Work in a Declining Welfare State, 1974-2000 -- One Hundred Years of Social Work: Looking Back and Moving Forward into the Twenty-First Century -- Appendix A CASW Branches, 1927-58 -- Appendix B CASW Presidents, 1962-2001.

One Hundred Years of Social Work is the first comprehensive history of social work as a profession in English Canada. Organized chronologically, it provides a critical and compelling look at the internal struggles and debates in the social work profession over the course of a century and investigates the responses of social workers to several important events. A central theme in the book is the long-standing struggle of the professional association (the Canadian Association of Social Workers) and individual social workers to reconcile advancement of professional status with the promotion social action. The book chronicles the early history of the secularization and professionalization of social work and examines social workers roles during both world wars, the Depression, and in the era of postwar reconstruction. It includes sections on civil defence, the Cold War, unionization, social work education, regulation of the profession, and other key developments up to the end of the twentieth century.

English.

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