No problem. And I could go into some more detail if you want, this is something that pisses me off.
This is more broad, but for people who were interested in any of what I just said, I would recommend that people read From Poor Law to Welfare State by Walter Trattner and Regulating the Lives of Women by Mimi Abromowitz. They're about the history of social services in general more than social work, but I don't think that's a bad thing. The former is one of the seminal works in the field, the latter is basically "hey, what if we did that but we also talked about women and people of color beyond them being afterthoughts?" The Abromowitz book is also apparently a response to Regulating the Poor by Frances Fox Piven, and I haven't read that but apparently it's also good, if flawed.
No problem. And I could go into some more detail if you want, this is something that pisses me off.
This is more broad, but for people who were interested in any of what I just said, I would recommend that people read From Poor Law to Welfare State by Walter Trattner and Regulating the Lives of Women by Mimi Abromowitz. They're about the history of social services in general more than social work, but I don't think that's a bad thing. The former is one of the seminal works in the field, the latter is basically "hey, what if we did that but we also talked about women and people of color beyond them being afterthoughts?" The Abromowitz book is also apparently a response to Regulating the Poor by Frances Fox Piven, and I haven't read that but apparently it's also good, if flawed.