Front Matter

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents iii
3. Notes on contributors iv
4. Acknowledgements vii
5. Foreword ix
6. Introduction 1
7. Case Con and radical social work in the 1970s: the impatient revolutionaries 11
8. The best and worst of times: reflections on the impact of radicalism on British social work education in the 1970s 27
9. Social work and women’s oppression today 45
10. The jester’s joke 59
11. LGBT oppression, sexualities and radical social work today 79
12. Radical social work and service users: a crucial connection 95
13. Why class (still) matters 115
14. International social work or social work internationalism? Radical social work in global perspective 135
15. Rediscovering radicalism and humanity in social work 153
16. Re-gilding the ghetto: community work and community development in 21st-century Britain 165
17. Resisting the EasyCare model: building a more radical, community-based, anti-authoritarian social work for the future 187
18. Bibliography 205
19. Index 231