David Burnham

The Social Worker Speaks (eBook, ePUB)

A History of Social Workers Through the Twentieth Century

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Since the war, histories of social work have concentrated on practice theory and methods, developments instigated by legislation, university training and professional status, but there has been little attention paid to who social workers were, what they believed, what they actually did, and what they thought of what they did. If part of the aim of this book is to remedy this partial coverage, another aim is to offer a more human history of social workers. There is too little celebration or humour in what has been published about the history of social workers; The Social Worker Speaks deliberately includes stories of how social workers behaved, their frustrations and triumphs, passions and occasional sins. So this is deliberately not a history of social work, but a history of social workers - the first of its kind.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317015451
• Artikelnr.: 44815258

Autorenporträt

David Burnham studied history at Sheffield University then qualified in social work at Leicester. Following time working as a probation officer and then a child care social worker, his subsequent career was as a trainer and then manager in social care in a local authority. He currently works part time for the NHS. His interest in history has focussed on various aspects of twentieth-century British society and culture. Over the last five years he has been researching the history of social workers.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
1904-1914: visiting societies, the Poor Law and local activists
1904-1914: missionaries, inspectors, lady visitors and Mr Cramp the Almoner
1914-1930: the Great War and after: a new breed
1919-1939: public assistance, new ideas, old attitudes
1939-1948: the impact of the Second World War
1948-1971: social workers: public servants
1948-1971: training, outsiders and themes
1971-1979: Seebohmising
1980-1989: this is alright
Afterword
Appendices
References
Index.