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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780370303321

Autore

Walkowitz Daniel J

Titolo

Working with class : social workers and the politics of middle-class identity / / Daniel J. Walkowitz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill : , : University of North Carolina Press, , 1999

©1999

ISBN

979-88-908705-1-3

0-8078-6120-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxi, 413 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

305.5/5/0973

Soggetti

Middle class - United States

Social workers - New York (State) - New York

Group identity - New York (State) - New York

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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