Global Social Work in a Political Context by Iain Ferguson, Vasilios Ioakimidis -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: Global social work in a political context Part One: The political context of contemporary social work

ONE: The political economy of social work

Introduction: ‘the 1930s in slow motion’ Explaining the crisis Marx and Keynes: saving capitalism or ending capitalism? The reality of austerity: Greece and Britain

Greece Britain

Conclusions

TWO: Neoliberalism, social work and the state: retreat or restructuring?

Introduction Theorising neoliberalism Neoliberalism, the state and social work

China South Africa Britain Greece

Conclusion

THREE: The privatisation of social work and social care

Introduction Why privatisation? Privatisation, social care and social work

The UK Sweden South Africa

Privatisation, social work and social care: the balance sheet Conclusion

Part Two: Social work politics: past and present

FOUR: Social work’s horrible histories: collusion and resistance

Introduction Children of nation, children of empire

Nazi Germany Spain under Franco Greece Colonial social work and indigenous children: Canada, Australia and Denmark Britain’s ‘children of empire’

Social work and social Darwinism Conclusion

Six: Refugees, migrants and social work

Introduction The scale of the contemporary ‘refugee crisis’ Refugees, migrants and asylum seekers Migrants, refugees and capitalism Social work with refugees Practical demands for an internationalist social work

Safe passage for refugees and migrants Against incarceration Support for unaccompanied minors The right to family reunification The right to work Self-activity No collusion with discriminatory laws Open borders

Conclusion

SEVEN: Social work, climate change and the Anthropocene

Introduction The climate change problem The science of climate change The Anthropocene Capitalist ecocide Social work in the Anthropocene Social work for environmental justice in practice

Disasters Advocacy Pollution Food Water

Conclusion

Part Three: Debating the politics of social work today

EIGHT: A new politics of social work?

Introduction Post-Marxism: key themes

Class essentialism ‘All the world is discourse’ Intersectionality?

‘The point is to change it!’: the question of agency Conclusion: ‘Anything goes’

NINE: The case for a social justice-based global social work definition

Conclusions: ‘Making history’

Introduction Boston Health Liberation Group The Social Work Action Network Sweden The New Approach Group, Hungary The Progressive Welfare Network, Hong Kong The Orange Tide, Spain South Africa Peace movement: Colombia and Cyprus The new social work radicalism - key elements

A global movement

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