Working with Class

Social Workers and the Politics of Middle-Class Identity

By: Daniel J. Walkowitz

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Paperback | 29 March 1999

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Polls tell us that most Americans--whether they earn $20,000 or $200,000 a year--think of themselves as middle class. As this phenomenon suggests, ""middle class"" is a category whose definition is not necessarily self-evident. In this book, historian Daniel Walkowitz approaches the question of what it means to be middle class from an innovative angle. Focusing on the history of social workers--who daily patrol the boundaries of class--he examines the changed and contested meaning of the term over the last one hundred years. 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. |This study of social work and social workers illuminates the interplay of race, ethnicity, and gender in the formation of middle-class identity.

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[A]n important contribution to the historical literature on the fate of radicalism in American society.Richard A. Cloward, "New Labor Forum" ï¿½Aï¿½n important contribution to the historical literature on the fate of radicalism in American society.Richard A. Cloward, "New Labor Forum" ï¿½Thisï¿½ book should become one of the touchstone monographs on American social work."American Historical Review" "[A]n important contribution to the historical literature on the fate of radicalism in American society.Richard A. Cloward, "New Labor Forum"" It is an important contribution to the historical literature on the fate of radicalism in American society."New Labor Forum" Walkowitz writes with a special sensitivity to the ways in which race and gender influenced events."Labor History" [This] book should become one of the touchstone monographs on American social work."American Historical Review" A trenchant critique of the trajectory of social work.Stanley Aronowitz "The Nation"

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Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xix
Abbreviations
Prologue	p. 1
The Invention of the Social Worker	p. 27
The Professionalization of the Caseworker	p. 57
The Making of a Feminine Professional Identity	p. 87
The Professional Worker in the Public Sector	p. 115
The Professional Worker in the Private Sector	p. 141
The Evisceration of the Professional Worker Identity	p. 177
Race and the Modern Professional	p. 211
Jews, Blacks, and a Counternarrative for the Middle Class	p. 253
Epilogue: Work and the Politics of the Middle Class	p. 289
Appendix	p. 323
Notes	p. 329
Bibliographical Essay	p. 387
Index	p. 399
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