Editor’s Preface
Foreword
1. Whatever happened to radical social work?
Mary Langan and Phil Lee
2. What’s happening in social services departments?
Nick Frost and Mike Stein
3. Social work and unemployment
Geoffrey Pearson
4. Changing perspectives: feminism, gender and social work
Annie Hudson
5. Decentralization and the personal social services
Suzy Croft and Peter Beresford
6. Violence, social work and the emergence of dangerousness
Nigel Parton and Neil Small
7. Unemployment, cod’s head soup and radical social work
Jennie Popay and Yvonne Dhooge
8. ‘And for those of us who are black?’ Black politics in social work
Michael Hutchinson-Reis
9. It’s up to you sisters: black women and radical social work
Naseem Shah
10. Challenging dependency: towards a new social work with older people
Chris Phillipson
11. Health issues, social services and democracy: steps towards a radical reintegration
Mike Simpkin
12. Residential care: what hope for the future?
Bruce Senior
13. Community work in recession: a practitioner’s perspective
Ian Smith
14. Towards a black perspective in social work: a transcultural exploration
John Small
15. Radical probation: surviving in a hostile climate
Paul Senior
Biography
Mary Langan
Phil Lee
Review of the first publication:
“…interesting and informative…an excellent piece of work.”
— Peter Leonard, McGill University, UK
