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From Charity to Social Work in England and the United States

Kathleen Woodroofe

出版	University of Toronto Press, 1971
主題	Political Science / Public Policy / Social Services & WelfareSocial Science / Philanthropy & Charity
ISBN	08020611849780802061188
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=X4tfQgAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

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"Social work has changed dramatically in the last hundred years. In mid-Victorian England it was a pastime for the wealthy and leisured, sufficiently innocuous to be socially acceptable, but worthy enough to create the illusion of purpose. It was a cheap and often effective way of averting social discontent. Today, especially in its newer forms of group work and community organization, social work strives to release human potentialities imprisoned by poverty, fear, and ignorance. Dr. Woodroofe gives a straightforward account of the evolution of social work in England and the United States. Beginning with the origins of casework, group work, and community organization in nineteenth-century England, she traces the process by which ideas and concepts practised in the old world were transplanted to the new where, subject to different influences and interpretations, they were transformed. Thus altered, these ideas and methods have been transmitted in the twentieth century back to England, enriching the theory and practice of social work there. This is a lucid and well-balanced book, an excellent introduction to the topic for students of social history and social work, as well as for the general reader"--Back cover