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The Road Not Taken: A History Of Radical Social Work In The United States. Michael Reisch And Janice Andrews
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Book note for Michael Reisch and Janice Andrews, The Road not Taken: A History of Radical Social Work in the United States. New York: Brunner- Routledge, 2001. $59.95 hardcover.
School Social Work In Hartford, Connecticut: Correcting The Historical Record, James G. Mccullagh
School Social Work In Hartford, Connecticut: Correcting The Historical Record, James G. Mccullagh
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
This paper corrects the historical record on why and how school social work began in Hartford and who was instrumental in establishing the new service. The findings, based on a study of primary sources, revealed that a school principal, and not a psychologist as previously claimed, initiated the process that led the Hartford Charity Organization Society to appoint its Visitor, Winifred Singleton Bivin, a social caseworker, to also become the first social worker in the schools in January 1907. The social work profession, which owes its origin to the Charity Organization Movement, is also obligated to the Hartford Charity Organization …