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

    Stanley Wenocur (Author), Michael Reisch (Author)

    9780252070730

    Paperback / softback, published 29 October 2001

    344 pages
    22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.481 kg

    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 social context. The explicit political and economic framework of Wenocur and Reisch's model enables the authors to examine how various subgroups within social work lost or gained control of the professional enterprise at various points.
     
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