This social work book is the first of its kind, describing practical steps that social workers can take to shape and influence both policy and politics. It prep

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The Politics of Social Work provides a major contribution to debates on the politics of social work, at the beginning of the 21st Century. It locates social wor

Offers peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies on social work as a discipline grounded in social theory and the improvement of peoples' lives. Bibliographies are

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