The professionalization of poverty : social work and the poor in the twentieth century

The professionalization of poverty - common themes and contributions, P. Nelson Reid and Gary R. Lowe; a profession for the poor? - a history of social work in the United States, Philip Popple and P. Nelson Reid; the uneasy marriage of professional social work and public relief, 1870-1940, Beverly Stadum; "In a World Gone Industrial" - specialization and the search for social work practice above the poverty line, Paul H. Stuart; the service trap - social work and public welfare policy in the 1960s, Leslie Leighninger; poverty, public welfare, and professionalism - opportunity lost, Gary R.Lowe and P. Nelson Reid; "Prising Open That Old Prejudiced Door" - African Americans, poverty, and social work in the early29th century, Susan Kerr Chandler; Harry Lawrence Lurie and social work's questionable commitment to social and economic justice, Joe M. Schriver; ideological nostalgia, intellectual narcosis, David Stoesz; Afterword, Clarke A. Chambers.