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Social work and poverty: A critical approach provides a timely review of the key issues facing social workers and service users in working together to combat poverty, covering key areas including access to food, obesity and drug use.

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"Social work and poverty achieves its aim of putting poverty where it belongs: at the centre of social work theory and practice." Rona Woodward, University of Stirling

Table of Contents
Poverty and Social Work: The Historical Context; Social Work and the Concept of Poverty; The Reform of Welfare?; Service Users and the Experience of Poverty; Social Work and Poverty: Ethics and Practice; Social Work Organisations: Responding to Poverty; Poverty: Social Division and Service Users; Globalisation, Social Work and Poverty; Conclusion.

Social Work and Poverty

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      Publisher Bristol University Press
      Published 20 November 2013
      ISBN-13 9781447307945
      978-1447307945
      ISBN-10 1447307941
      Also in:
      Poverty and precarity

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Social work and poverty: A critical approach provides a timely review of the key issues facing social workers and service users in working together to combat poverty, covering key areas including access to food, obesity and drug use.

      Trade Review
      "Social work and poverty achieves its aim of putting poverty where it belongs: at the centre of social work theory and practice." Rona Woodward, University of Stirling

      Table of Contents
      Poverty and Social Work: The Historical Context; Social Work and the Concept of Poverty; The Reform of Welfare?; Service Users and the Experience of Poverty; Social Work and Poverty: Ethics and Practice; Social Work Organisations: Responding to Poverty; Poverty: Social Division and Service Users; Globalisation, Social Work and Poverty; Conclusion.

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