From charity to enterprise : the development of American social work in a market economy
Sets the professionalization of social work into a dynamic social context. The explicit political and economic framework of Wenocur and Reisch's model enables the authors to examine how various subgroups within social work lost or gained control of the professional enterprise at various points.
Print Book, English, 2001, ©1989
1st Illinois paperback View all formats and editions
University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 2001, ©1989
History
xiii, 327 pages ; 24 cm
9780252070730, 0252070739
175294441
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 social 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 opportunity
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