Under the Cover of Kindness: The Invention of Social Work

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University of Virginia Press, 1997 - 216 ˹éÒ

In Under the Cover of Kindness, Leslie Margolin looks at how this country's social welfare system developed and with what results. From his detailed examination of social work texts, primarily case histories, he argues persuasively that social work disguises its own assumptions and claims to power as a way of further legitimizing its actions. By attending to these case histories, Margolin shows how social work entails not only the intrusion into the previously private space of the home but also the constant justification of this intervention - to both clients and workers themselves - as representing charitable and disinterested help. This book critically assesses how social workers invent themselves as they simultaneously invent their field of knowledge.

 

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Introduction
1
The Birth of the Investigation
13
The Social Work Gaze
23
A Network of Writing
36
SelfMystification
60
Reaching the HardtoReach
85
Framing the Poor
97
Lobotomy
106
The Rhetoric of Empowerment
117
The New Excuse
135
The New Record
151
SelfInoculations
165
Notes
181
Works Cited
199
Index
213
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