Social Work and Social Theory - Making Connections

Informationen zum Autor Paul Michael Garrett is a senior lecturer at the National University of Ireland in Galway. Previously, he was a social worker involved in community-based campaigns focused on homelessness, welfare rights, trade union rights and poverty. He is the author of several books and articles examining social work during the period of neoliberalisation. He is also a member of the editorial boards of Critical Social Policy and the European Journal of Social Work. Klappentext In this unique book, Paul Michael Garrett seeks to bring the profession into the orbit of the anti-capitalist movement and encourages a new engagement with theorists, rarely explored in social work, such as Antonio Gramsci, Pierre Bourdieu and Nancy Fraser.In this unique book, Paul Michael Garrett seeks to bring the profession into the orbit of the anti-capitalist movement and encourages a new engagement with theorists, rarely explored in social work, such as Antonio Gramsci, Pierre Bourdieu and Nancy Fraser.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Michael Garrett
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.02.2013
• EAN: 9781847429612
• ISBN: 978-1-84742-961-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system