Globalisation, Global Justice and Social Work

✍ Scribed by I. Ferguson

• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 263
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Globalization has become a seemingly unstoppable force over recent decades and, in its wake, global notions of social justice have developed in response to its negative aspects. Neo-liberal economic policies have been a key element in the wider process of globalization, and these policies have had a profound impact on welfare provision and the shape of social work practice. Arising dissatisfaction among users of welfare and social work services is fuelling the search for a new, more radical social work that is firmly rooted in principles of social justice. Globalisation, Global Justice and Social Work explores the global effects of neo-liberal policies on welfare services in different countries, with contributions from social work academics, practitioners and welfare activists around the world. The first section of the book presents case studies of impact of neo-liberalism on welfare systems, social service provision and the practice of social work. In the second section the chapters explore the relationship between social work practice and the struggle for social justice. Authors discuss the personal and political dilemmas they have had to address in seeking to link a personal commitment to social justice with their daily practice as workers and educators in social work. The final section assesses the prospects for social work practice based on notions of social justice, by looking at what can be learned from the experience of previous radical movements as well as from emergent global and local movements.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Introduction......Page 11
Book outline......Page 14
A different practice in Mexican social work......Page 21
Neo-liberalism and globalisation: generators of a society of exclusion and confrontation......Page 25
Identity and social subjectivity: key factors in the popular resistance in Mexico......Page 28
The Zapatista proposal: an historic opportunity......Page 29
The challenges to our profession......Page 31
Introduction......Page 33
The cycle of neo-liberal hegemony in Argentina......Page 34
The terms of the social question in Argentina and the indicators of the crisis of social reproduction11......Page 38
Social policy and social welfare: principal plans and programmes......Page 42
The creation of the Social Development Secretariat......Page 44
Job promotion plans......Page 45
The transformation of social policy into social welfare, and its significance in the constitution of society......Page 46
The right to welfare and the meaning of social policy......Page 48
Situating Indian social work......Page 51
Caste-based hierarchy......Page 52
Areas of work......Page 53
India and development......Page 54
Indian social work and modernisation......Page 55
Responses to globalisation......Page 56
Origins......Page 57
Effects......Page 58
Perspectives for social work......Page 61
Conclusion......Page 63
Social policy and the inapplicability of the colonial model......Page 64
Colonial social services and social protection......Page 66
Structural adjustment programmes, globalisation and social exclusion......Page 67
The limits of professional training......Page 69
From the logic of state intervention to mutual care......Page 70
Social policy in the context of globalisation and the question of citizenship......Page 72
Conclusion......Page 74
Introduction......Page 76
The increasingly professional, complex and technical world of social work......Page 78
Rationalising social work......Page 79
Fragmentation of the social sector......Page 80
A professional model under threat......Page 81
Dissolving references to a code of practice......Page 83
Ways of intervening for mediators and youth workers......Page 84
Acting in a risk society......Page 85
Conclusion......Page 87
Introduction......Page 90
Before neo-liberalism: social work and the post-war welfare state......Page 92
Enter neo-liberalism......Page 94
Neo-liberalism and modernisation......Page 99
Concluding comment......Page 102
Introduction......Page 105
Stress and unhappiness: the realities of neo-liberal social work......Page 106
No change with New Labour......Page 111
Transformed social work......Page 115
So what do we have?......Page 116
Introduction......Page 117
The consolidation of the Australian welfare state post-World War II......Page 118
The rise of economic ‘rationalism’ and the celebration of the individual......Page 120
Moving beyond the structural/post-structuralopposition......Page 122
Indigenous rights and Australian social workers......Page 123
Seeking asylum in Australia today: the terror of detention......Page 127
A code of practice for radical/progressive social workers......Page 130
Summary......Page 131
Introduction......Page 132
The politics of asylum and immigration in the UK: a war on asylum seekers?......Page 134
Things can only get better......Page 137
Exclusion from welfare provision......Page 139
Contradictions facing welfare workers: compromise, collaboration and collective resistance......Page 142
Introduction......Page 149
The classroom......Page 150
Living and acting in Quebec......Page 152
From the global to the local......Page 155
Citizen social worker......Page 156
Social work at a crossroads......Page 158
Creating community......Page 159
Connecting communities globally......Page 160
Conclusion......Page 161
Introduction......Page 164
The emergence of radical social work in the United States......Page 165
The influence of socialism on radical social work......Page 166
The Rank and File Movement......Page 167
McCarthyism and critical social work......Page 168
The debate over professionalism......Page 172
Critical social work theory in the 1990s......Page 174
The influence of critical social work at the beginning of the twenty-first century......Page 175
Introduction......Page 179
The winds of change......Page 180
Four options for the future......Page 181
Spaces of practice: social development and difference......Page 185
A critical revisioning of community and locality as spaces for practice in the context of the ‘local-global nexus’......Page 188
A critical exploration of the ‘shadow’ of welfare as creating spaces for examining participation and enterprise in social work practice......Page 190
A critical examination of culture and cultural process and of social workers as cultural workers......Page 192
13 Conclusion......Page 193
The context......Page 195
Social capital......Page 197
Social movements and social movement organisations......Page 201
Resource mobilisation theory......Page 202
New social movements or ‘contemporary movements’......Page 203
Transnational social movements......Page 204
Gramsci......Page 205
Freire......Page 206
The banking and dialogic approaches to teaching and learning......Page 207
Participatory research......Page 208
Social work theory and practice......Page 209
Structural and conjunctural analysis......Page 210
Organising......Page 211
Conclusion......Page 212
Introduction......Page 214
Cracks in the neo-liberal consensus......Page 215
Anti-capitalist debates......Page 218
Change from above or change from below?......Page 219
Civil society......Page 223
The role of the NGOs......Page 225
Social work and the struggle for social justice......Page 227
Conclusion......Page 231
Bibliography......Page 232
Index......Page 254