The Social Worker Speaks: A History of Social Workers Through the Twentieth Century

by David Burnham

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138245585
• ISBN13: 9781138245587
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"