Abstract
This article addresses the charge that social workers, like the charity workers before them, disseminate the conservative values of a middle-class culture. Although the underlying conservative social and political context of social work practice is not denied, the author objects to equating social work with charity work, to equating professional social work thinking with social agency thinking, and to the implication of monolithic thinking within the profession. The history of child welfare is used to demonstrate the profession's efforts to differentiate itself from its lay and organizational ties as it has attempted to develop a unifying practice methodology.
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