Reclaiming Social Work: Challenging Neo-liberalism and Promoting Social Justice

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SAGE, 2007. gada 12. dec. - 168 lappuses
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.

The book:

" discusses pertinent social work issues such as inequality and risk, the voluntary sector, and service-user involvement

" examines values such as democracy, solidarity, accountability, participation, justice, equality, liberty and diversity

" is written in an accessible style, drawing on diverse examples to illustrate theoretical concepts.

Reclaiming Social Work is an accessible yet challenging book and will be essential reading for all social work students and practitioners wanting to think outside the boundaries of their profession. The book will be particularly helpful to students taking courses in anti-oppressive practice, social work values, social work theories and concepts, and international social work.

Iain Ferguson is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Stirling. Previous publications include Rethinking Welfare: A Critical Perspective (SAGE, 2002, co-authored with Michael Lavalette and Gerry Mooney); Globalisation, Global Justice and Social Work (Routledge, 2004, co-edited with Michael Lavalette and Elizabeth Whitmore); and International Social Work and the Radical Tradition (Venture Press, 2007, co-edited with Michael Lavalette).

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A Profession Worth Fighting For?
8
NeoLiberal Britain
22
New Labour New Social Work
37
The Market and Social Care
54
Consumerism Personalisation and Social Welfare Movements
69
The Radical Tradition
88
Critical Social Work Issues and Debates
103
Challenging the Consensus
120
References
137
Index
151
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19. lappuse - The social work profession promotes social change, problem solving in human relationships and the empowerment and liberation of people to enhance well-being. Utilising theories of human behaviour and social systems, social work intervenes at the points where people interact with their environments. Principles of human rights and social justice are fundamental to social work.
107. lappuse - The narrative function is losing its functors, its great hero, its great dangers, its great voyages, its great goal.
23. lappuse - We used to think that you could just spend your way out of a recession and increase employment by cutting taxes and boosting government spending. I tell you in all candour that that option no longer exists, and that in so far as it ever did exist, it worked by injecting inflation into the economy.
91. lappuse - No one who saw it will ever forget the strange and indeed terrible sight of that grey winter day, the vast, sombrecoloured crowd, the brief but fierce struggle at the corner of the Strand, and the river of steel and scarlet that moved slowly through the dusky swaying masses...
115. lappuse - When I think of the mechanics of power, I think of its capillary form of existence, of the extent to which power seeps into the very grain of individuals, reaches right into their bodies, permeates their gestures, their posture, what they say, how they learn to live and work with other people
72. lappuse - We are proposing to put an entirely different dynamic in place to drive our public services; one where the service will be driven not by the government or by the manager but by the user - the patient, the parent, the pupil and the law-abiding citizen.
23. lappuse - Neoliberalism is in the first instance a theory of political economic practices that proposes that human well-being can best be advanced by liberating individual entrepreneurial freedoms and skills within an institutional framework characterized by strong private property rights, free markets, and free trade.
55. lappuse - The onus in all cases should be on the social services authorities to show that the private sector is being fully stimulated and encouraged and that competitive tenders, or other means of testing the market, are being taken.
18. lappuse - Its just our bringin' up-ke. That gets us out of hand. Our mothers all are junkies, Our fathers all are drunks. Golly Moses, natcherly we're punks. Gee, Officer Krupke, we're very upset. We never had the love that every child oughta get. We aint no delinquents, we're misunderstood. Deep down inside us there is good.
29. lappuse - I'm saying to you is that in fact whether the very richest person ends up becoming richer, the issue is actually whether the poorest person is given the chance they ... they don't have.

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