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Zusatztext 'This book seems to tackle many important issues relating to social work today. ... As social work develops in the future! I would like to see a second edition of the book! which surely will follow.' - European Journal of Social Work'a timely and thorough critical appraisal of how the business of culture has shifted the nature of social work so fundamentally in the UK over the last 25 years' - Journal of Social Work'an important contribution to the literature! which brings together in one place significant material that both students adn teachers will find invaluable.' - Journal of Social Work Informationen zum Autor John Harris Klappentext With the contemporary transfer of private sector rationality into state services, the distinction between the private and the public sectors has been increasingly difficult to sustain. "The Social Work Business" gives a comprehensive picture of social work in its new guise as a quasi-public enterprise: its origins, its characteristics, its ramifications for the education of social workers and its impact on managers, practitioners, service users, carers and voluntary organizations. Zusammenfassung This book gives a comprehensive picture of social work in its new guise as a quasi-public enterprise, and is an invaluable resource for social work and social policy students, practice teachers, trainers and managers. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Doing the Business 2. Before the Business Era 3. Establishing the Business 4. Running the Business 5. Modernising the Business 6. Learning the Business 7. The Customer Base 8. The Supply Chain 9. Seeing Through the Social Work Business
