A New History of Social Work

John H. Pierson worked for Cheshire Social Services for many years before moving to teach at Staffordshire University, from which he has just retired after 30 years. He is the author of Tackling Poverty and Social Exclusion: Promoting Social Justice in Social Work (Routledge, 2016), among many other publications.

Introduction. 1. Family visiting and the relief of poverty. 2. The relieving officer as first state social worker. 3. State and charitable social work. 4. Finding moral voice: Ethics and values in peace and war. 5. Women take the field. 6. Competing visions, different pathways. 7. Social work and social democracy. 8. Social work in a market society. 9. Social justice and social work in the 21st century.