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This text is a look at how the social welfare system in the United States developed, and with what results. It critically assesses how social workers invent themselves as they simultaneously invent their field of knowledge, and in so doing, upsets conventional understandings of social work.

Under the Cover of Kindness Invention of Social

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      Publisher: University of Virginia Press
      Publication Date: 29/05/1997
      ISBN13: 9780813917139, 978-0813917139
      ISBN10: 0813917131

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      Book Synopsis
      This text is a look at how the social welfare system in the United States developed, and with what results. It critically assesses how social workers invent themselves as they simultaneously invent their field of knowledge, and in so doing, upsets conventional understandings of social work.

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