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Disclosing Elite Ecologies Methodologies For Doing Urban Elite Research

Disclosing Elite Ecologies Methodologies For Doing Urban Elite Research

Disclosing elite ecologies: Methodologies for Doing Urban Elite Research offers a set of methodologies to chart urban elites. Whereas most research has focused on the global super-rich this book pays specific attention to the multidimensional urban geographies of elite reproduction and transformation as elites depend on urban contexts for capital accumulation consumption and leisure and housing. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach to the topic contributing authors discuss various theoretical and methodological antecedents in urban studies and related areas of research that have investigated economic elites. Building on but also moving beyond these bodies of literature the book rejects a-priori definitions of the size and shape of this social group and instead pursues relational place specific conceptualizations of elite composition and behavior. In particular the contributions to the volume show that urban elite research benefits from paying more attention to: (i) boundary work between elites and non-elites; (ii) intra-elite competition and distinction; (iii) national state spaces in determining elite composition; and (iv) the urban sense of belonging of economic elites. This extensive volume provides readers with various empirical inroads into the study of urban elites drawing on research set in Brussels Fez London Lyon Madrid Manchester Milan New York City Paris and Porto Alegre. Taking inspiration from urban and economic geography elite theory and urban sociology cultural sociology political economy anthropology criminology architecture and migration studies this book aims to open up the opportunity for methodological cross-fertilization. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Urban Geography. | Disclosing Elite Ecologies Methodologies For Doing Urban Elite Research

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Routledge Handbook of Elite Sport Performance

Routledge Handbook of Elite Sport Performance

The Routledge Handbook of Elite Sport Performance is the first book to examine a broad span of performance and support issues in contemporary elite sport; including coaching sports science and medicine leadership and management operating in different societies living in the system as a performer and future developments in the domain. The book is written by authors with elite-level experience expertise success and status across individual and team sports including football NFL track and field athletics rowing and rugby in professional Olympic and other elite domains. The book also considers the integration of systems at micro to macro levels from working with individual athletes to developing national organisations and policy and features in-depth case studies from real sport throughout. This is an essential reference for any researcher or advanced student with an interest in elite sport or applied sport science from sport injury and sport psychology to sports coaching and sport policy. It is also an invaluable resource for coaches managers administrators and policy-makers working in elite sport offering them a breadth first guide to how and why specialists may work together for maximum effect.

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Elite Soccer Players Maximizing Performance and Safety

Elite Soccer Players Maximizing Performance and Safety

The sport of soccer has evolved immensely since its beginning around 2 000 years ago and is now considered the most popular sport in the world. The research related to the physical psychological and tactical aspects of the game has risen in conjunction with its fame. Elite Soccer Players: Maximizing Performance and Safety seeks to inform the reader with the most current research connected to optimizing physical performance and reducing the risk of injury of the elite soccer athlete for a variety of ages. After providing an initial brief overview of applying physical and psychological scientific concepts in soccer (Part I: Laying the Foundation”) this book then takes the reader through a series of important yet novel parts including: “Athlete Monitoring and Data Analysis ” “Optimizing Physical Performance ” “Injury Epidemiology and Risk Reduction ” “Achieving Peak Performance and Safety in Various Environmental Conditions ” and “Unique Aspects of the Game. ” The goal of Elite Soccer Players: Maximizing Performance and Safety is to conceptualize and expand upon the current research associated with these topics and provide an applicable point of view to the coaches sport scientists strength and conditioning coaches and sports medicine professionals who work with these athletes every day. | Elite Soccer Players Maximizing Performance and Safety

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Elite Universities and the Making of Privilege Exploring Race and Class in Global Educational Economies

Elite Universities and the Making of Privilege Exploring Race and Class in Global Educational Economies

Providing an extraordinary picture of the inner workings of elite universities Elite Universities and the Making of Privilege draws on current debates on education and inequality and considers the relevance of universities’ global brand identities. Using the work of Bourdieu and critical race theory to explore how identity experience and family background affects how people navigate the social space of the university this book is underpinned with empirical research that considers different social economic and educational contexts. Using interview accounts of graduate students this book highlights ambiguities in how eliteness works as both a recognisable marker of institutional status and a marker that is rarely quantified or defined. Combining intellectually rigorous accessible and controversial chapters Elite Universities and the Making of Privilege is crucial reading for anyone looking to understand how race and class affect those navigating elite universities. | Elite Universities and the Making of Privilege Exploring Race and Class in Global Educational Economies

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Embedded Multi-Level Leadership in Elite Sport

Embedded Multi-Level Leadership in Elite Sport

This book represents an alternative perspective on international elite sport systems. It focusses on the embedded multi-level nature of leadership and the scope that this might give for degrees of leadership autonomy and discretion. The chapters show how mechanisms of leadership on different levels interact. The nature and mix of leadership mechanisms reflect values and expectations related to specific political normative and commercial sport contexts. Three introductory chapters outline key elements of these dimensions of elite sport contexts. Seven empirical cases illustrate how national contexts facilitate and constrain leadership practices related to specific sports across Russia China Ghana Germany Switzerland Denmark Norway and the US. The final chapter discusses embedded multi-level leadership from a comparative perspective. Based on the countries covered the book distinguishes between three groups: state-dominated systems state-elite sport partnership and countries with a passive state with no state intervention. This book is important reading for researchers and students with an interest in sport management sport development sport policy and sport governance as well as for policy-makers performance directors and managers working in elite sport. | Embedded Multi-Level Leadership in Elite Sport

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Peak Performance for Soccer The Elite Coaching and Training Manual

Peak Performance for Soccer The Elite Coaching and Training Manual

In this book over 40 of the world’s leading practitioners working in elite soccer— over 6 continents—share advanced knowledge of the environment as well as a scientific understanding of the game and players. This book explores those traits at an intricate level through shared experiences of some of the best performance coaches working in elite soccer. The content in this book is derived from practical and evidence-based concepts that have been applied at the elite level. Uncovering the coaching strategies as well as contemporary issues in elite soccer this comprehensive textbook illustrates what it takes to thrive as a performance coach at the top level. Collaborating with the industry leaders in soccer the chapters address a myriad of topics such as: • the multiple roles and responsibilities; • youth development; • strength and conditioning application; • nutrition and recovery strategies; • tracking and monitoring fitness and fatigue; • powerful communication methods and staff cohesion; and • return to play and injury prevention strategies Peak Performance for Soccer is essential reading for all coaches and practitioners at any level who work in soccer. Alex Calder is the head of sports science with the Houston Dynamo competing in Major League Soccer (MLS). He is an accredited level 3 elite coach with the Australian Strength and Conditioning Association (ASCA) as well as holding accreditations through the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) and Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association (CSCCa). Adam Centofanti is currently the head of fitness for the Seattle Sounders FC having previously served as the head of academy strength and conditioning for Houston Dynamo FC. Formally with Melbourne City FC Adam held various roles with the club including conditioning coach/sports scientist in the academy sector as well as overseeing the women’s performance program achieving multiple championships. | Peak Performance for Soccer The Elite Coaching and Training Manual

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Mental Health in Elite Sport Applied Perspectives from Across the Globe

Mental Health in Elite Sport Applied Perspectives from Across the Globe

Mental Health in Elite Sport: Applied Perspectives from Across the Globe provides a focused exhaustive overview of up-to-date mental health research models and approaches in elite sport to provide researchers practitioners coaches and students with contemporary knowledge and strategies to address mental health in elite sport across a variety of contexts. Mental Health in Elite Sport is divided into two main parts. The first part focuses globally on mental health service provision structures and cases specific to different world regions and countries. The second part focuses on specific mental health interventions across countries but also illustrates specific case studies and interventions as influenced by the local context and culture. This tour around the world offers readers an understanding of the massive global differences in mental health service provision within different situations and organizations. This is the first book of its kind in which highly experienced scholars and practitioners openly share their programs methods reflections and failures on working with mental health in different contexts. By using a global multi-contextual analysis to address mental health in elite sport this book is an essential text for practitioners such as researchers coaches athletes as well as instructors and students across the sport science and mental health fields. | Mental Health in Elite Sport Applied Perspectives from Across the Globe

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Elite Soccer Referees Officiating in the Premier League La Liga and Serie A

Elite Soccer Referees Officiating in the Premier League La Liga and Serie A

Soccer is undeniably the most popular sport in the world. While we know much about its high-profile players and their increasing wealth and global influence we know little about referees and the ways in which refereeing has changed throughout the history of the sport. This book provides an in-depth exploration of the evolution of the match official. It presents a comparative analysis of elite Association football referees in England Spain and Italy as well as offering insights into the involvement of UEFA and FIFA in referee training. Drawing on archive material the book documents the historical development of refereeing and sheds new light on the practice of elite refereeing in the present day. Including exclusive interviews with elite and ex-elite referees as well as with professional soccer managers and members of the broadcast media it considers the current role of match officials and the challenges and controversies they encounter. Elite Soccer Referees: Officiating in the Premier League La Liga and Serie A is fascinating reading for all students and scholars with an interest in soccer sport history sport policy sport management and the sociology of sport. | Elite Soccer Referees Officiating in the Premier League La Liga and Serie A

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Rugby Union and Professionalisation Elite Player Perspectives

Rugby Union and Professionalisation Elite Player Perspectives

The game of rugby has changed significantly in the course of its history. In the early part of the 19th century it evolved from a folk game played by the working class to a recreational activity for public schoolboys. From the 1820s rugby represented an opportunity for gentlemen to demonstrate physical prowess and masculinity and in more recent times it has developed into an activity that reflects the changing attitudes towards professional sport. For the most part of the last one hundred years rugby union became an important international sport that represented the nationalistic ideals of a number of countries. However a number of developments including the increasing influence of a business ethos within sport during the latter decades of the twentieth century exposed rugby union to the realities of commercialism and all the factors associated with it especially the demands of a more diverse spectating public. Drawing on interview material with forty-eight elite level rugby union players from England Wales Scotland France Ireland South Africa New Zealand and Australia who participated in elite level rugby union either before in the overlapping period or after the declaration of professionalism this book traces the evolution of attitudes towards professionalism from a players’ perspective and develops a critical review of the impact that professionalism has had upon the sport of rugby union. Rugby Union and Professionalisation: Elite Player Perspectives is fascinating reading for all students and scholars with an interest in rugby union sport history sport policy sport management and the sociology of sport. | Rugby Union and Professionalisation Elite Player Perspectives

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The Trilateral Commission and Global Governance Informal Elite Diplomacy 1972-82

The Trilateral Commission and Global Governance Informal Elite Diplomacy 1972-82

This book provides the first analysis of the Trilateral Commission and its role in global governance and contemporary diplomacy. In 1973 David Rockefeller and Zbigniew Brzezinski founded the Trilateral Commission. Involving highly influential people from business and politics in the US Western Europe and Japan the Commission was soon preceived as constituting an embryonic or even shadow world government. As the first researcher to have accessed the Commission’s archives the author argues that this study demonstrates that global governance and international diplomacy should be considered a product of overlapping elite networks that merge informal and formal spheres across national borders. This work has three immediate aims: to trace the background origins purposes characteristics and modus operandi of the Commission; to investigate the elite aspect of the Commission and how this related to democracy; and to demonstrate how the Commission contributed to diplomatic practices and policy-formulation at national and international levels. The overall purpose of this book is to evaluate the significance of the Trilateral Commission with particular focus on the implications of its activities on the way we understand decision-making processes and diplomacy in modern democratic societies. This book will be of much interest to students of the Cold War US foreign policy diplomacy studies and IR in general | The Trilateral Commission and Global Governance Informal Elite Diplomacy 1972-82

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Post-Anthropocentric Social Work Critical Posthuman and New Materialist Perspectives

Post-Anthropocentric Social Work Critical Posthuman and New Materialist Perspectives

This book seeks to trouble taken-for-granted assumptions of anthropocentrism and humanism in social work - those which perpetuate human privilege and human exceptionalism. The edited collection provides a different imaginary for social work by introducing ways of thinking otherwise that challenge human exceptionalism. Social work is at heart a liberal humanist project informed by a strong human rights framework. This edited collection draws on the literature on affect feminist new materialism and critical posthumanism to critique the liberal framework which includes human rights. Disrupting the anthropocentrism in social work which positions humans as an elite species at the centre of world history this book develops an ethical sensibility that values entanglements of humans non-human life and the natural environment. The book provides new insights into environmental destruction human-animal relations gender inequality and male dominance as well as indigenous and settler/colonial issues and critical and green social work. It will be of interest to all scholars and students of social work community development social policy and development studies more broadly. | Post-Anthropocentric Social Work Critical Posthuman and New Materialist Perspectives

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Studying the Power Elite Fifty Years of Who Rules America?

Studying the Power Elite Fifty Years of Who Rules America?

This book critiques and extends the analysis of power in the classic Who Rules America? on the fiftieth anniversary of its original publication in 1967—and through its subsequent editions. The chapters written especially for this book by twelve sociologists and political scientists provide fresh insights and new findings on many contemporary topics among them the concerted attempt to privatize public schools; foreign policy and the growing role of the military-industrial component of the power elite; the successes and failures of union challenges to the power elite; the ongoing and increasingly global battles of a major sector of agribusiness; and the surprising details of how those who hold to the egalitarian values of social democracy were able to tip the scales in a bitter conflict within the power elite itself on a crucial banking reform in the aftermath of the Great Recession. These social scientists thereby point the way forward in the study of power not just in the United States but globally. A brief introductory chapter situates Who Rules America? within the context of the most visible theories of power over the past fifty years—pluralism Marxism Millsian elite theory and historical institutionalism. Then a chapter by G. William Domhoff the author of Who Rules America? takes us behind the scenes on how the original version was researched and written tracing the evolution of the book in terms of new concepts and research discoveries by Domhoff himself as well as many other power structure researchers through the 2014 seventh edition. Readers will find differences of opinion and analysis from chapter to chapter. The authors were encouraged to express their views independently and frankly. They do so in an admirable and useful fashion that will stimulate everyone’s thinking on these difficult and complex issues setting the agenda for future studies of power. | Studying the Power Elite Fifty Years of Who Rules America?

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Asian Social Work Professional Work in National Contexts

Asian Social Work Professional Work in National Contexts

The countries of East and Southeast Asia taken as a whole display a laboratory of social and political conditions with individual countries presenting a variety of political cultural and social characteristics. Some with one-party state systems others with stable liberal democracies and yet others with more fragile democratic systems. As such the region presents a unique opportunity to examine the relationship between diverse national environments and social work education regimes. In this book social work educators and theorists from around East and Southeast Asia provide accounts of the social work programs within the higher education systems of their respective countries and compare them to those of their neighbours. This is the first book to offer a structured account of how social work and social work education have emerged and finds their present place in the historical economic political urban/rural and higher education contexts of Southeast Asia and East Asia. Experts from the region assess the extent to which these countries’ systems possess a collective coherence while examining the diversity among them. | Asian Social Work Professional Work in National Contexts

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Police Social Work Social Work Practice in Law Enforcement Agencies

Police Social Work Social Work Practice in Law Enforcement Agencies

Grounded in contemporary social work practice approaches such as trauma-informed practice cultural competency and systems theory this book provides a model for developing implementing and evaluating police social work and social service collaboration within the context of contemporary policing strategies. The practice of professional social work in law enforcement agencies is increasingly becoming an important area of practice. Police social work as it is known benefits community residents and assists law enforcement agencies with accomplishing community policing and other problem-solving initiatives. Throughout 13 chapters this book covers: The practice of professional social work within law enforcement agencies The types of social problems addressed and characteristics of police social work collaborations Ethical and other practice issues that arise when collaborating with law enforcement agencies and required practice skills to address these issues An examination of collaborations formed between law enforcement agencies and social services agencies in which the service providers are not professional social workers A model for developing police social work collaborations and investigating collaboration effectiveness Expanded roles for police social work practice such as consultation officer selection training recruits and police officers and assisting their families Police Social Work provides a wealth of case studies and other reference material to prepare students for police social work practice as well as serving as a resource for police officers recruits and students majoring in policing. | Police Social Work Social Work Practice in Law Enforcement Agencies

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Perspectives in Social Work

Perspectives in Social Work

Perspectives in Social Work was originally published in 1977 and provides a text for social workers in training to use. The book argues for a more philosophical approach to both understanding and doing social work and seeks to establish simple and basic elements in social work asking questions such as: what should a social worker be able to do? What should a social worker know and believe? Does social work actually work? In answering these questions the book offers a wide ranging and critical review of literature of the time and looks at social work as a method of altruism. This book is still topical today and acts as a useful document on the subject of social work both through the discussions within and through the lens of modern change. It will be of particular interest to those studying the history and changes in social work.

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Education for Social Work Readings in Social Work Volume 4

Education for Social Work Readings in Social Work Volume 4

Some outstanding contributions to a better understanding of the issues of education for social work have been brought together in this volume originally published in 1968. Because of the wide relevance of the subject these articles should be valuable not only to social work educators and field supervisors in many different parts of the world but to others concerned with professional education. Today it can be enjoyed in its historical context. | Education for Social Work Readings in Social Work Volume 4

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Group Work Learning and Practice

Group Work Learning and Practice

Group work is central to social work whether it be work with individuals and families residential care community work management or social work education. Despite however the upsurge of interest in this aspect of social work method at the time Group Work: Learning and Practice originally published in 1978 represented the first attempt at providing an up-to-date and carefully integrated source book for students – in the form of a series of mainly original and British papers on social group work: its knowledge base; the possible varieties of practice settings and objectives; and its implications for social work education and training models. For new directions in social work education suggested that the small group was to become the core system around which much future social work teaching would be based. The main concern of this new National Institute for Social Work reader – the development and demonstration of intervention skills in practice – would be particularly relevant. The book draws attention to the opportunities for work with groups in the community in residential institutions and with families where the emphasis was rapidly shifting towards the need for greater understanding and use of the small group dimension. Group Work: Learning and Practice would have been widely welcomed both by specialists in group work at the time and all those more generally interested in social work methods – as teachers students practitioners supervisors and as local authority training officers. It would also be of interest to a wider readership of teachers youth workers and those concerned with the group dynamics and counselling fields. | Group Work Learning and Practice

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Caesarism Charisma and Fate Historical Sources and Modern Resonances in the Work of Max Weber

Caesarism Charisma and Fate Historical Sources and Modern Resonances in the Work of Max Weber

How do writers marginalized by the authoritarian state in which they live intervene in the political process? They cannot do so directly because they are not politicians. Other modes of engagement are possible however. A writer may take up arms and become a revolutionary. Or as Max Weber did he may try to influence politics by playing the role of constitutional advisor or by seeking to shape the dominant language in which his contemporaries think. Weber sought to reconstitute the political and social vocabulary of his day. Part I of Caesarism Charisma and Fate examines a great writer's political passions and the linguistic creativity they generated. Specially it is an analysis of the manner in which Weber reshaped the nineteenth century idea of Caesarism a term traditionally associated with the authoritarian populism of Napoleon III and Bismarck and transmuted it into a concept that was either neutral or positive. The coup de grace of this alchemy was to make Caesarism reappear as charisma. In that transformation a highly contentious political concept suffused with disapproval and anxiety was naturalized into an ideal type of universal value-free sociology. Part II augments Weber's ideas for the modem age. A recurrent preoccupation of Weber's writings was human fate a condition that evokes the pathos of choice the political meaning of death and the formation of national solidarity. Peter Baehr marrying Weber and Durkheim fashions a new concept community of fate for sociological theory. Communities of fate-such as the Warsaw Ghetto or Hong Kong dealing with the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) crisis-are embattled social sites in which people face the prospect of collective death. They cohere because of an intense and broadly shared focus of attention on a common plight. Weber's work helps us grasp the nature of such communities the mechanisms that produce them and not least their dramatic consequences. | Caesarism Charisma and Fate Historical Sources and Modern Resonances in the Work of Max Weber

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Social Work with Families Readings in Social Work Volume 1

Social Work with Families Readings in Social Work Volume 1

Originally published in 1965 this book gathers together some outstanding contributions to various aspects of social work with families. The subject was now more than ever of concern to social workers as fresh knowledge added to their understanding of the dynamics of family life and interaction. The papers which compose the book were written by well-known authors from both sides of the Atlantic. They are arranged in three sections dealing with: normal and less normal families as a group; with particular crisis situations for children; and with some more theoretical concepts contributing to an understanding of family types. This volume was the first in a series of Readings in Social Work designed to collect together significant articles on different aspects of social work. | Social Work with Families Readings in Social Work Volume 1

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Social Change and Social Work The Changing Societal Conditions of Social Work in Time and Place

Social Change and Social Work The Changing Societal Conditions of Social Work in Time and Place

Social Change and Social Work discusses and examines how social work is challenged by social political and economic tendencies going on in current societies. The authors ask how social work as a discipline and practice is encountering global and local transformations. Divided into three parts topics covered include the changing social work mandate throughout history; social work paradigms and theoretical considerations; phenomenological social work; practice research; and gender and generational research. Taken together the chapters in this anthology provide an authoritative and up-to-date overview of current discussions within the European social work research community. | Social Change and Social Work The Changing Societal Conditions of Social Work in Time and Place

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Social Work and Social Values Readings in Social Work Volume 3

Social Work and Social Values Readings in Social Work Volume 3

Originally published in 1967 this volume of the Readings in Social Work series would appeal especially to social workers administrators social work teachers and those who were becoming increasingly concerned about the whole question of value assumptions in social work at the time. So far little had been written on a subject of lively discussion amongst practitioners and students alike; in this volume are gathered together some of the most influential and often quoted articles which had appeared in Britain and the United States in recent years. They deal not only with the general ethics of professional practice and specific situations but also with conflicting value judgments in administrative settings and the relation between administration and values. | Social Work and Social Values Readings in Social Work Volume 3

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Integrating Social Work Methods

Integrating Social Work Methods

Throughout its history social work has been seeking a means to state its purposes and methodology as a unity that transcends the purposes and methodology applicable in particular fields of practice or sanctioned by particular legislation or practised by a particular kind of worker. Recent changes in society developments in social work practice new additions to the knowledge base of social work and current reorganisation of the social services had led to an intensified interest in this ‘integrated’ approach. Originally published in 1977 Integrating Social Work Methods introduces the reader to the main developments in the conceptualisation of a unitary method. It clarifies what it is that is being unified identifies issues involved in the attempt to unify and discusses their implications for social work practice and training. As such it represented the first substantial British text in the field and was widely welcomed by social work practitioners administrators and educators at the time.

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Social Work A Reader

Social Work A Reader

Building on the successful 1st edition this reader brings together some of the most significant ideas that have informed social work practice over the last fifty years. At the same time as presenting these foundational extracts the book includes commentaries that allow the reader to understand the selected extracts on their own terms as well as to be aware of their relations to each other and to the wider social work context. There is no settled view or easy consensus about what social work is and should be and the ideas reflected in this volume are themselves diverse and complex. The world of social work has changed greatly over the last ten years and this new edition reflects that change with new material on the decolonisation of social work knowledges the greater emphasis on inter-disciplinarity and co-production and the new concern for identities. With an accessible introduction to contextualise the selections the book is divided into three main sections each presenting key texts drawn from a wide range of perspectives: psychological sociological philosophical educational and political as well as perspectives that are grounded in the experiences of practitioners and those who use services which have contributed to the development of: the profession of social work knowledge and values for social work and practice in social work. By providing students and practitioners with an easy way into reading first-hand some of the most interesting foundational texts of the subject it will be required reading for all undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and professionals undertaking post-qualifying training. | Social Work A Reader

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Made To Work Mobilising Contemporary Worklives

Made To Work Mobilising Contemporary Worklives

Made to Work analyses the conditions of mobile knowledge work (MKW) in contemporary worklives contrasting and drawing parallels among three highly significant sectors of the Knowledge Economy: academia information communication technology (ICT) management and digital creative work. It introduces the concept of ‘corollary work’ to characterise the elusive work underpinning the configuration of workers informational technological relational and infrastructural resources in (re)producing liveable worklives. It ultimately illuminates the myriad strands of corollary work that enable MKW to take place and contributes to emergent debates on how exploitation at least in the domain of MKW can be named resisted and creatively subverted. In so doing it opens up a conversation about the complex ways in which contemporary worklives are ‘made to work’ and about potential interventions to bring about more just worklife conditions in the future. | Made To Work Mobilising Contemporary Worklives

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Mental Health Social Work Observed

Mental Health Social Work Observed

Despite extensive changes in the organisation of social and psychiatric services there had been no study of mental health social work in the UK since the early 1960s. There was however no shortage of ‘received wisdom’ about the perceived failure of social work to provide a service to the mentally disordered. Originally published in 1984 it was to provide some basic information about the practice of social work in this field that the study was conducted on which Mental Health Social Work Observed is based. The authors looked at both long-term work and emergency work in which the use of compulsory powers was requested. In addition to the views of social workers the opinions of psychiatrists family practitioners and of the clients themselves were sought in order to gain a full picture of social work in practice. Through their thorough immersion in the field of study and through their experience of social work and of mental health issues the authors were able to provide a sympathetic and lucid account of the difficulties of mental health social work and of the thorny issue of interprofessional relationships which will ring true to the practitioner. They produced recommendations relevant to social work practice at the time and this book would be found useful to social workers and their managers to psychiatrists family practitioners psychiatric nurses and clinical psychologists. Of particular relevance to the then current changes in the role of the social worker under the new mental health legislation is the authors’ study of mental health emergency work culminating in a recommended code of practice.

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