Author: John Pierson File Type: pdf This scholarly and engaging volume shows us where social work has come from, and so helps us understand and shape its future. The author has a gift for making the professions complex history accessible, whilst respecting its intricacy. The result is an illuminating tour de force a book that gives perspective and hope.Suzy Braye, Professor of Social Work, University of Sussex, UKullPiersons richly documented overview of social works evolution in Britain promises to support coming generations of social workers in learning from their fields responses to changing issues and ideas on assistance for those in need.J. Lee Kreader, Interim Director, National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia University, USA*lulThis introductory textbook provides a concise account of the development of social work in Britain, from its beginnings in the industrial revolution to the present day. The book seeks to recover overlooked experiences and important but forgotten debates, whilst re-examining the concepts and approaches developed by chief architects of the profession. The book has several unique features designed to help students both understand the development of social work and to form their own judgements on the issues it raisesullTimelines that mark important practice and policy developments llDiscussion points that pose questions for readers to think through llFirst hand testimony and excerpts from case records showing the viewpoints, perspectives and decisions of social workers in earlier decades llDocumentary material that encourages students to critically reflect on the present in light of the pastlulUnderstanding Social Work is written with the student and educator in mind, in a style and format that makes the history of social work approachable, relevant, and profound. The view of history embodied here is of a continuously unfolding, many-sided phenomenon that offers a rich source of ethical insight, practical experience and moral guidance.About the AuthorJohn Pierson has been teaching at Staffordshire University for twenty years and is the author of several volumes on social work and social policy, including co-author of the Dictionary of Social Work (Open University Press, 2010). hr

Author: Shayla Thiel-Stern File Type: pdf From the days of the penny press to the contemporary world of social media, journalistic accounts of teen girls in trouble have been a mainstay of the U.S. news media. Often the stories represent these girls as either victims or whores (and sometimes both), using journalistic storytelling devices and news-gathering practices that question girls ability to perform femininity properly, especially as they act in public recreational space. These media accounts of supposed misbehavior can lead to moral panics that then further silence the voices of teenagers and young women. In From the Dance Hall to Facebook, Shayla Thiel-Stern takes a close look at several historical snapshots, including working-class girls in dance halls of the early 1900s girls track and field teams in the 1920s to 1940s Elvis Presley fans in the mid-1950s punk rockers in the late 1970s and early 1980s and girls using the Internet in the early twenty-first century. In each case, issues of gender, socioeconomic status, and race are explored within their historical context. The book argues that by marginalizing and stereotyping teen girls over the past century, mass media have perpetuated a pattern of gendered crisis that ultimately limits the cultural and political power of the young women it covers. **