From its inception in the late nineteenth century, social work has struggled to carry out the complex, sometimes contradictory, functions associated with reducing suffering, enhancing social order, and social reform. Since then, social programs like the implementation of welfare and the expansion of the service economy-which should have augured well for American social work-instead led to a continued loss of credibility with the public and within the academy.
A Dream Deferred chronicles this decline of social work, attributing it to the poor quality of professional education...
From its inception in the late nineteenth century, social work has struggled to carry out the complex, sometimes contradictory, functions associate...
