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Practising Ethically in Unethical Times

Everyday Resistance in Social Work

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ID12902147
AutoresMerlinda Weinberg (0000-0002-2587-0227, Dalhousie University, autor de correspondencia), Bank (0000-0002-2529-6413, Durham University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2019
Volumen13
Número4
Páginas361-376
Fecha de publicación2019-04-17
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEthics and Social Welfare (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1749-6535 • E-ISSN: 1749-6543
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17496535.2019.1597141
OpenAlexW2940111395
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas58
Referencias citadas34

This article considers the challenges faced by social workers struggling to act ethically in what we characterise as the ‘unethical climate’ of neoliberalism. We offer a brief account of the current context, including the increasing managerialism and marketisation of welfare services, exacerbated by cuts in welfare provision following the 2008 financial crisis. We discuss the concepts of ‘ethical resistance’ and ‘ethics work’. We illustrate this with three case examples drawn from accounts given by social workers in Canada and England in the context of two research studies. These accounts feature social workers struggling to be ethically good and to do what they consider to be the right actions in difficult circumstances. We interpret their accounts of their actions largely in terms of everyday ethical resistance to organisational pressures of regulation of practice and rationing of resources. We conclude that everyday ethical resistance is not enough to ‘make good’ the unethical climate, but is an important precursor to social and political resistance

Context (archaeology · Environmental ethics · Health care · Law and economics · Managerialism · Neoliberalism (international relations · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Rationing · Resistance (ecology · Social Welfare · Sociology · Welfare · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Mental Health and Patient Involvement · Social Work Education and Practice · Social Work

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