Reclaiming Social Work - Challenging Neo-Liberalism and Promoting Social Justice

Klappentext Reclaiming Social Work is a thought-provoking and innovative book which examines how social work's commitment to social justice has been deepened and enriched by its contact with wider social movements. It explores the tensions between social work values and a market-driven agenda, and locates new resources of hope for the social work profession in the developing resistance to managerialism. Zusammenfassung Examines how social work's commitment to social justice has been deepened and enriched by its contact with social movements. This book explores the tensions between social work values and a market-driven agenda! and locates resources of hope for the social work profession in the developing resistance to managerialism. Inhaltsverzeichnis A Profession worth Fighting For? Neo-Liberal Britain New Labour, New Social Work The Market and Social Care Consumerism, Personalisation and Social Welfare Movements The Radical Tradition Critical Social Work Issues and Debates Challenging the Consensus

List of contents

A Profession worth Fighting For?
Neo-Liberal Britain
New Labour, New Social Work
The Market and Social Care
Consumerism, Personalisation and Social Welfare Movements
The Radical Tradition
Critical Social Work
Issues and Debates
Challenging the Consensus

Product details

• Authors: Iain Ferguson, Ferguson Iain
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.12.2007
• EAN: 9781412906937
• ISBN: 978-1-4129-0693-7
• No. of pages: 168
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 6 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, Social Work