Working with Class
Social Workers and the Politics of Middle-Class Identity
Daniel J. Walkowitz
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 07/2003
Pages: 440
Subject: Social Science, History
| University of North Carolina
Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9780807861202
DESCRIPTION
Walkowitz uses the study of social workers to explore the interplay of race, ethnicity, and gender with class. He examines the trade union movement within the mostly female field of social work and looks at how a paradigmatic conflict between blacks and Jews in New York City during the 1960s shaped late-twentieth-century social policy concerning work, opportunity, and entitlements. In all, this is a story about the ways race and gender divisions in American society have underlain the confusion about the identity and role of the middle class.