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Neo-liberalism, social exclusion and welfare clients in a global economy
No full textGlobalization has played a major role in redefining the nature of the welfare state and the ways in which social work practice is being undertaken in a number of different countries. Moreover, its impact has been to exacerbate gendered and racialized social relations. In this article, I explore the changes that globalization has wrought on the social work profession. These have resulted in neo-liberialist policies that have contributed to the realization of a purchaser-provider split in service delivery, the commodification of inter-personal relationships embodied in caring work and the creation of a technicist cadre to deal with vulnerable people in need. I conclude by arguing that social workers need to engage in a public debate which challenges this state of affairs and form alliances with clients, professional associations, trade unions, politicians and other professional groupings in order to set a new welfare agenda which replaces profit-making with social justice to ensure that needs-led assessments and people are at the heart of their professional remit
Research into practice
No full textThe Undeserving Mothers project, which looked at the plight of young mothers in care, a neglected area of study, was carried out in Victoria, Canada, from 1999 to 2001.The research included three focus groups with practitioners and in-depth interviews with 12 young women in or from care now aged 16-24 and who were 13-18 at the time of their first pregnancy. Between them, they had 14 children, eight of whom were living with their mother at the time of interview.The experiences of mothering while in care were largely negative. The young mothers struggled against all the odds to keep their children, but were rarely successful. They characterised their experience as "prevailing on the edge on my own"
The changing face of social work: globalisation, privatisation and the technocratisation of professional practice
No full textWorking with men from a feminist perspective
No full textTable of ContentsIntroduction, John Stoltenberg; it's time for men to change, Jeff Hearn; working with men from a feminist perspective, Lena Dominelli; making the links - gender, oppression and change, Susie Orbach; when is a man not a man - when he's disabled, Tom Shakespear; working with black men for change, Wanda Thomas Bernard; men in therapy - opportunity and change, Keith Tudor; talking spaces - a therapeutic groupwork approach to HIV prevention with gay men; men, love and violence, Paul Woolf-Light; safety issues for women co-facilitating groups for violent men, Susan Cayoutte; one man's struggle for transformation, Luke Daniels; men, power, control and violence, Vic Seidler; values and processes in groupwork with men, Malcolm Crowburn & Hilary Pengelly; working with men for change - a sequential programme for men's development, Jim Wild
Review of global social policy: international organizations and the future of welfare by Deacon, B.
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