From Charity to Enterprise

by Wenocur, Stanley

• ISBN13: 9780252070730
• ISBN10: 0252070739
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr

Summary

"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."

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	xv
PART I A Political-Economic Perspective on Professionalization
A Political-Economic View of Professionalization	3	(18)
PART II The Emergence of a Professional Social Work Enterprise: 1880-1916
Historical Context	21	(9)
The Earliest Definitions of the Social Work Commodity	30	(16)
Fashioning Social Work into Casework	46	(15)
Training the Commodity Producers	61	(9)
Neither Charity nor Enterprise: The State of Social Work at the End of the Progressive Era	70	(7)
PART III The Growth and Consolidation of the Social Work Enterprise: 1916-29
Historical Context	77	(15)
Fashioning the Social Work Commodity	92	(15)
Funding and Elite Support for Social Work	107	(8)
Consolidating the Social Work Enterprise	115	(21)
Social Work Redefined	136	(15)
PART IV The Creation of a Social Welfare Industry: Social Work between 1930 and 1950
An Overview of the Social Work Enterprise: 1930-50	151	(4)
New Conditions, New Requirements: Misery Breeds Opportunity	155	(12)
Social Work Politics in a New Social Welfare Industry	167	(15)
The Radical Challenge to Professional Social Work	182	(26)
The Professional Enterprise Prevails: Reshaping the Social Work Commodity	208	(17)
Expanding the Enterprise: Social Group Work, Community Organization, and the Formation of NASW	225	(18)
Social Work Education	243	(13)
Continuing Dilemmas of Profession Building	256	(15)
Notes	271	(12)
References	283	(32)
Index	315