Chapter Eleven Legal Regulation of Social Work: The Last Stage in Professionalization

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xiii
4. Acknowledgements xvii
5. Abbreviations of Organizations and Terms xix
6. Responding to Industrial Capitalism and Setting the Stage for Professional Social Work, 1880–1924 1
7. Pursuing Professional Status, 1924‒29 21
8. Face to Face with Poverty: Social Work in the Depression, 1930–9 39
9. Social Work in the War Years, 1939–45: Expansion and Consolidation 65
10. Postwar Reconstruction and Civil Defence, 1940–60 79
11. Social Work in the Cold War Era, 1940–60: Radicalism and Repression 111
12. A Conservative Era in Social Work: The 1950s 133
13. The Struggle for Workplace Improvements and Standards: The Role of Unions and Professional Associations 151
14. Provincial Autonomy and Reorganization in the CASW, 1950–65 181
15. Advancing Social Work Education, 1950–70 203
16. Legal Regulation of Social Work: The Last Stage in Professionalization 229
17. Staying the Course: Choosing Professional Status over Progressive Politics 245
18. Social Work in a Declining Welfare State, 1974–2000 267
19. One Hundred Years of Social Work: Looking Back and Moving Forward into the Twenty-First Century 287
20. CASW Branches, 1927–58 303
21. CASW Presidents, 1926–2001 305
22. References 307
23. Index 331