One Hundred Years of Social Work

Therese Jennissen teaches in the area of social policy and social welfare/social work history at Carleton University. She has published work on the gender dimensions of occupational health and safety in the workplace, workers compensation in Canada, and women and social policy. With Colleen Lundy, she has published on the impact of economic transformations on women in Cuba and Russia.Colleen Lundy is a social work professor at Carleton University. Her book Social Work and Social Justice: A Structural Approach to Practice makes an important contribution to the understanding of social work from a social justice/human rights perspective. She is the editor of Canadian Social Work and the Canadian North America representative on the International Federation of Social Workers Human Rights Commission.

• One Hundred Years of Social Work: A History of the Profession in English Canada, 1900-2000 by Therese Jennissen and Colleen LundyPrefaceAcknowledgementsAbbreviations of Organizations and TermsChapter One: Responding to Industrial Capitalism and Setting the Stage for Professional Social Work, 1880-1924Child WelfarePovertyThe Role of ReligionPlanting the Seeds of Social WorkThe Settelement MovementCharity Organization Societies (COS)Social Work in World War IPostwar Social Unrest and Labour ConflictConclusionNotesChapter Two: Pursuing Professional Status, 1924-29The American InfluenceThe Formative Years in Canadian Social Work EducationFormation of a Canadian Social Work AssociationThe Impact of Pursuing Professional StatusConclusionNotesChapter Three: Face to Face with Poverty: Social Work in the Depression, 1930-9Social Workers Respond to Unemployment and PovertyThe Relief CrisisSocial Workers Come under AttackHousing ConditionsStretcher Bearers or Political ActivistsLeft-Leaning Social WorkersSocial Casework ChallengedDevelopments in the CASWConclusionNotesChapter Four: Social Work in the War Years, 1939-45: Expansion and ConsolidationContributing to the War Effort The Continuation of Peacetime Social WorkShortage of Qualified Social WorkersGrowth and Consolidation in the CASWConclusionNotesChapter Five: Postwar Reconstruction and Civil Defence, 1940-60Social Work and Postwar ReconstructionThe Royal Commission on Dominion-Provincial Relations (Rowell-Sirois), 1937-40Unemployment Insurance Act, 1940Report on Social Security for Canada (Marsh Report), 1943Advisory Committee on Health Insurance (the Heagerty Committee), 1942-43The Committee on Housing and Community Planning (the Curtis Committee), 1944The Family Allowances Act, 1944The Dominion-Provincial Conference on Reconstruction, 1945Keeping an Eye on Child WelfareSocial Work and Civil Defence in Times of PeaceConclusionNotesChapter Six: Social Work in the Cold War Era, 1940-60: Radicalism and RepressionThe Daycare MovementThe Peace MovementThe Canadian Peace CongressSocial Workers for PeaceThe Case of Mary Jennison: A Victim of Anti-Communist Witch HuntsThe RCMP ""Red List""ConclusionNotesChapter Seven: A Conservative Era in Social Work: The 1950sFormalizing a Code of EthicsWelfare Planning as Social ActionAbolition of the Death PenaltyThe Doukhobor SituationRevisiting the Social Action Mandate, 1956-58ConclusionNotesChapter Eight: The Struggle for Workplace Improvements and Standards: The Role of Unions and Professional AssociationsSocial Work and Unions: An Uneasy AllianceSocial Workers, Staff Associations, and UnionsVulnerability of Social Workers: A Case ExampleSocial Workers in High Demand and Short SupplyInadequate TrainingSalaries and Conditions of WorkSocial Workers Prepare to StrikeConclusionNotesChapter Nine: Provincial Autonomy and Reorganization in the CASW, 1950-65The ""Manpower"" Crisis in Social WorkRestructuring of Role and FunctionProvincial AutonomyThe Move to Provincial Associations: British ColumbiaDevelopments in QuebecNew Directions for the CASWConclusionNotesChapter Ten: Advancing Social Work Education, 1950-70US Influence on Social Work EducationOrganizing Social Work Education in CanadaThe National Committee of Canadian Schools of Social Work (NCCSSW)Canadian Committee on Social Work Education (CCSWE)Canadian Council on Education and Personnel for the Social Services (CCEPSS)Social Worker Shortage and Social Welfare WorkersMeeting the Challenges in Social Work EducationThe Unwelcoming UniversityConclusionNotesChapter Eleven: Legal Regulation of Social Work: The Last Stage in ProfessionalizationThe Process of ProfessionalizationLegal Regulation: A Troubled Relationship with the StateA Patchwork of Regulatory LegislationConvincing Government and Social WorkThe Impact of ProfessionalizationConclusionNotesChapter Twelve: Staying the Course: Choosing Professional Status over Progressive PoliticsSelective Responses to Government InitiativesInitiatives by Provincial AssociationsThe CASW Critiques Its Own Responses to GovernmentSilence on the Status of WomenHousing and Urban RenewalThe Absence of the CASW in Social Workers' Political StrugglesGoing It Alone: Bridget Moran's Battle with British Columbia's Social Credit GovernmentAccountability and Ethics in Social Work Practice: The Warrendale AffairExercising the Left Wing: Social Workers Promoting Social ChangeConclusionNotesChapter Thirteen: Social Work in a Declining Welfare State, 1974-2000Cutbacks to the Welfare State and Changes in the Profession, 1974-89Malaise in the ProfessionSocial Work Practitioners Shift to the LeftPersecution of a Left-Leaning Social Work ProfessorA Wholesale Attack on the Welfare State, 1989-2000Responses from the Social Work CommunitySocial Work Demonstrates Its RelevanceConclusionNotesChapter Fourteen: One Hundred Years of Social Work: Looking Back and Moving Foward into the Twenty-First CenturyA Time of TransitionSocial Work Entering the Twenty-First Century: An Uncertain TimeExternal ChallengesChallenges Internal to the ProfessionThe Ongoing Struggle to Address Our Inherent ContradictionsLosing Ground in the Workplace and in SocietyFragmentation of Social Work BodiesSocial Work Theory and the Question of Theoretical RobustnessLosing Our Historical Roots in the Peace MovementMoving FowardFighting for Control over Our WorkReturning to Our Legacy of ResistanceReinvigorating Our Theory BasePromoting Social and Economic Justice, Not CharityNoteAppendix A: CASW Branches, 1927-58Appendix B: CASW Presidents, 1926-2001ReferencesIndex

``In One Hundred Years of Social Work, the authors provide a nuanced narrative, informed by a combination of feminist theory, critical theory, and political economy. They have mined all the secondary literature and done extensive archival work as well as many interviews with living key players. This is a book of very sound scholarship.... Because the book is thoroughly documented, it will serve for many years to come as the standard book in the social work field to trace and analyze the history of social workers in the twentieth century. But the writing is jargon-free and the book should serve equally well as an important work for anyone studying the evolution of social policy in Canada or the evolution of professions in the country.'' -- Alvin Finkel, author of [http://www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Catalog/finkel.shtml Social Policy and Practice in Canada: A History (WLU Press, 2006)] -- 01/2011