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Working with class : social workers and the politics of middle-class identity / Daniel J. Walkowitz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Walkowitz, Daniel J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Middle class--United States.
- Middle class.
- Social workers--New York (State)--New York.
- Social workers.
- Group identity--New York (State)--New York.
- Group identity.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxi, 413 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Working with Class: Social Workers and the Politics of Middle-Class Identity.
- Contents:
- Cover Page; Working with Class; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Epigraph; Prologue: Locating the Middle Class; Part One: The Professionalizing Project; Chapter One: The Invention of the Social Worker; Chapter Two: The Professionalization of the Caseworker; Chapter Three: The Making of a Feminine Professional Identity; Part Two: The Middle-Class Worker; Chapter Four: The Professional Worker in the Public Sector; Chapter Five: The Professional Worker in the Private Sector; Chapter Six: The Evisceration of the Professional Worker Identity
- Part Three: Race and the Classless Class; Chapter Seven: Race and the Modern Professional; Chapter Eight: Jews, Blacks, and a Counternarrative for the Middle Class; Epilogue: Work and the Politics of the Middle Class; Appendix; Notes; Bibliographical Essay; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9798890870513
- 9780807861202
- 0807861200
- OCLC:
- 863821357
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