Radical social work today : social work at the crossroads / edited by Michael Lavalette.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Bristol : Policy Press, 2011Description: xi, 236 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 1847428185
  • 9781847428189
  • 9781847428172
  • 1847428177
Uniform titles:
  • Radical social work.
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HV 13 .R33 2011
Contents:
Case con and radical social work in the 1970s: the impatient revolutionaries / Jeremy Weinstein -- The best and worst of times: reflections on the impact of radicalism on British social work education in the 1970s / Chris Jones -- Social work and women's oppression today / Laura Penketh -- The jester's joke / Charlotte Williams -- LGBT oppression, sexualities and radical social work today / Laura Miles -- Radical social work and service users: a crucial connection / Peter Beresford -- Why class (still) matters / Iain Ferguson -- International social work or social work internationalism? Radical social work in global perspective / Michael Lavalette and Vasilios Ioakimidis -- Rediscovering radicalism and humanity in social work / Mary Langan -- Re-gilding the ghetto: community work and community development in 21st-century Britain / Sarah Banks -- Resisting the EasyCare model: building a more radical, community-based, anti-authoritarian social work for the future / Mark Baldwin.
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"Written to celebrate the 35th anniversary of Bailey and Brake's seminal text Radical social work (1975) ... the book brings together leading academics in Britain to reflect on the legacy of Radical social work (both the original text and the wider social movement) within social work education, theory and practice."--P. [4] of cover.

Case con and radical social work in the 1970s: the impatient revolutionaries / Jeremy Weinstein -- The best and worst of times: reflections on the impact of radicalism on British social work education in the 1970s / Chris Jones -- Social work and women's oppression today / Laura Penketh -- The jester's joke / Charlotte Williams -- LGBT oppression, sexualities and radical social work today / Laura Miles -- Radical social work and service users: a crucial connection / Peter Beresford -- Why class (still) matters / Iain Ferguson -- International social work or social work internationalism? Radical social work in global perspective / Michael Lavalette and Vasilios Ioakimidis -- Rediscovering radicalism and humanity in social work / Mary Langan -- Re-gilding the ghetto: community work and community development in 21st-century Britain / Sarah Banks -- Resisting the EasyCare model: building a more radical, community-based, anti-authoritarian social work for the future / Mark Baldwin.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-229) and index.

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