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From Charity to Enterprise: The Development of American Social Work in a Market Economy

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From Charity to Enterprise: The Development of American Social Work in a Market Economy - Wenocur, Stanley, and Reisch, Michael
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How did social work evolve as a profession in the United States? Stanley Wenocur and Michael Reisch examine the history of social work and provide a theoretical model of professionalization for analyzing its development. They offer a provocative view of American social work as an enterprise seeking exclusive control over the definition, production, and distribution of an essential commodition. Now in paperback for the first time, From Charity to Enterprise sets the professionalization of social work into a dynamic ...

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From Charity to Enterprise: The Development of American Social Work in a Market Economy 2001, University of Illinois Press, Baltimore

ISBN-13: 9780252070730

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