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  2. History of social work - Wikipedia

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    Regarding the development of social service in the beginning of the 20th Century (1910-1920), women and feminists movements were crucial for the recognition of social work as a profession. On one hand, their discourse reinforced the dualist vision of social roles, considering care work was appropriate with the characteristic women were supposed ...

  3. Social work - Wikipedia

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    For the first half of the twentieth century, with a period of deinstitutionalisation beginning in the late 1960s psychiatric social work succeeded to the current emphasis on community-based care, psychiatric social work focused beyond the medical model's aspects on individual diagnosis to identify and address social inequities and structural ...

  4. Mary Richmond - Wikipedia

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    Mary believed social welfare was a civic responsibility and many of her theories on social work were adopted for use in Asia, South America and Europe. [ 1 ] Some of the most notable contributions Mary Richmond gave was that she fought to obtain legislation for deserted wives and founded the Pennsylvania Child Labor Committee, the Public ...

  5. Jane Addams - Wikipedia

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    Sullivan, M. "Social work's legacy of peace: Echoes from the early 20th century". Social Work, Sep. 93; 38(5): 513–520. EBSCO; Toft, Jessica and Abrams, Laura S. "Progressive Maternalists and the Citizenship Status of Low-Income Single Mothers". Social Service Review 2004 78(3): 447–465. ISSN 0037-7961 Fulltext: Ebsco

  6. Social class in American history - Wikipedia

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    Flynt, J. Wayne, Dixie's Forgotten People: The South's Poor Whites (1979). deals with 20th century. Gilbert, D. The American Class Structure: In An Age of Growing Inequality (Wadsworth, 2002) Newby, I. A. Plain Folk in the New South: Social Change and Cultural Persistence, 1880–1915 (1989). concentrates on the mill workers in the Carolinas ...

  7. Settlement movement - Wikipedia

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    Settlement houses influenced urban design and architecture in the twentieth century. For example, James Rossant of Conklin + Rossant agreed with Robert E. Simon's social vision and consciously sought to mix economic backgrounds when drawing up the master plan for Reston, Virginia. [27] The New Monastic movement has a similar goal and model.

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  9. National Florence Crittenton Mission - Wikipedia

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    This turn of the 20th century social welfare movement helped shape the professionalization of social work, and changed social attitudes about motherhood and the role of women in society. Barrett's views on the education and training of women were considered radical at the time, but these ideas were adopted into the services provided to young ...