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This study documents the daily lives of vunerable lone mothers and their children in Denmark. Loss of rights, gender and ethnic inequality, and family violence all emerge as key themes, with far-reaching international implications. The book presents case stories and questions the legal issues.
The first supplement to the author's Social work education; a bibliography (Scarecrow, 1978). The new volume contains about 2,800 references arranged by subject, indexed by author. No annotations. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Listening to the Welfare State presents, for the first time in English, central research findings from recent studies of the welfare systems of Denmark, Norway, Finland and Sweden. The book’s contributors are leading investigators of face-to-face encounters between welfare professionals and clients in these systems. All have collected their data through ethnographic observations as well as taped recordings of these meetings. By subjecting their data to conversation and discourse analyses, these researchers provide a richly detailed empirical picture of the various forms of talk-at-work constituting the core activity of a variety of street-level bureaucracies. Their findings provide a well-rounded body of knowledge about what happens when professionals meet persons seeking financial assistance, child protection, employment, vocational counselling, treatment, rehabilitation and related services. Essential reading for both professional and students, this book will provide a wealth of insights into and understandings of, the micro-level workings of welfare state systems.
Margaret Nelson investigates the lives of single, working-class mothers in this compelling and timely book. Through personal interviews, she uncovers the different challenges that mothers and their children face in small town America--a place greatly changed over the past fifty years as factory work has dried up and national chains like Walmart have moved in.
This is a study of the search for the essential nature of social work practice. The text is divided into two parts. The first part presents a theoretical analysis of the intra-professional discourse in search of a generic study-object for social work practice. This is followed by an empirical application of the theoretical findings for the field of occupational social work. issus, practice traditions and prevailing dilemmas of current practice theory, this study examines social work practice in Sweden and the USA today. The project is built upon a qualitative research method based upon social work tradition of the use-of-self as the instrument of practice and complex triangulation design which builds upon a practioner-researcher perspective. re-examination of social work practice with relationship to the centrality of victimization processes and the relevance of employment for social work clients. The study concludes with a proposal for a new Social Justice Model for social work practice to be founded upon basic human rights in the private and public spheres of everyday life as the concrete manifestation of the practice of social work with issues of victimization.
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