Social Work
Basics
On the Web: Articles
On the Web: Specialized Sites
National Association of Social Workers.
In the Library: Articles
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Abramovitz, Mimi. Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present [1988] (rev. ed.; Boston: South End, 1996).
Iglehart, Alfreda P. & Rosina M. Becerra. Social Services & the Ethnic Community (Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1995).
Jaggs, Donella. Asylum to Action: Family Action, 1851-1991. A History of Services & Policy Development for Families in Times of Vulnerability (Oakleigh East VIC: Family Action, 1991).
Jones, Jean Boyd. Jean Boyd Jones, from Haven to Community: An Oral History (Richmond VA: n.p., 1980).
Lasch-Quinn, Elizabeth. Black Neighbors: Race & the Limits of Reform in the American Settlement House Movement, 1890-1945 (Chapel Hill: U. North Carolina, 1993).
Leighninger, Leslie. Creating a New Profession: The Beginnings of Social Work Education in the US (Alexandria VA: Council on Social Work Education, 2000).
Manrique Castro, Manuel. De apóstoles a agentes de cambio: el trabajo social en la historia latinoamericana (Lima: CELATS, 1982).
Martin, Mildred Crowl. Chinatown's Angry Angel: the Story of Donaldina Cameron (Palo Alto CA: Pacific, 1977).
Mathews, Marie A. The Social Work Mystique: Toward a Sociology of Social Work (Washington: U. Press of America, 1981).
Meilicke, Carla A. & Janet L. Storch (eds.) Perspectives on Canadian Health & Social Services Policy: History & Emerging Trends (Ann Arbor: Health Administration, 1980).
Parra, Gustavo. Antimodernidad y trabajo social: orígenes y expansión del trabajo social argentino (Luján: U. Nacional de Luján, 1999).
Polsky, Andrew J. The Rise of the Therapeutic State (Princeton: Princeton U, 1991).
Reid, Kenneth E. From Character Building to Social Treatment: The History of the Use of Groups in Social Work (Westport CT: Greenwood, 1981).
Ritter, Bruce. Covenant House: A Lifeline to the Street (NY: Doubleday, 1987).
Rothman, Gerald C. Philanthropists, Therapists, & Activists: A Century of Ideological Conflict in Social Work (Cambridge MA: Schenkman, 1985).
Schneider, Eric C. In the Web of Class: Delinquents & Reformers in Boston, 1810s-1930s (NY: NYU, 1992).
Sennett, Richard. Respect in a World of Inequality (NY: Norton, 2003).
Stadum, Beverly Ann. Poor Women & their Families: Hard Working Charity Cases, 1900-1930 (Albany: SUNY, 1992).
Tice, Karen Whitney. Tales of Wayward Girls & Immoral Women: Case Records & the Professionalization of Social Work (Urbana: U. Illinois, 1998).
Towle, Charlotte. Common Human Needs [1945] (rev. ed. Silver Spring MD: National Association of Social Workers, 1987).
van Drenthe, Annemieke. The Rise of Caring Power: Elizabeth Fry & Josephine Butler in Britain & the Netherlands (Amsterdam: Amsterdam U, 1999).
In the Library: Fiction
Arrowsmith, Pat. Many Are Called (London: Onlywomen, 1998).
Paretsky, Sarah. Ghost Country (NY: Delacorte, 1998).