Scarcity in a New Profession Social Work in South Australia 1936–1950
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11958659 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elaine M Martin (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 25-34 |
| Publication date | 1985-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Social Work (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0312-407X • E-ISSN: 1447-0748 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03124078508549831 |
| OpenAlex | W1998378073 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 2 |
Following an earlier paper on the establishment of a social work training course in Adelaide in 1936 and the first decade of its development, this article focuses on the employment of trained social workers in South Australia during the period 1936-1950. It examines the demand for and employment of trained social workers by welfare and related organisations, the supply available from local graduates and from personnel who moved into the State, and the continuing scarcity of such staff despite the steadily increasing output of the Adelaide course. The reasons for this scarcity are explored through detailed study of the employment histories of graduates of this period and the records of employing organisations. This evidence demonstrates how the workforce in this occupation suffered severe attrition from marriage and family responsibilities and from movement out of the State, leaving for the staffing of welfare services a highly mobile and unstable workforce consisting mainly of relatively inexperienced young women. The article concludes with some discussion of the adverse effects of this situation both on welfare organisations and services and on the efforts of social work to establish itself as a profession
Attrition · Business · Economic growth · Economics · Political science · Public relations · Scarcity · Social Welfare · Staffing · State (computer science · Welfare · Welfare state · Work (physics · Workforce · Australian History and Society · Engineering · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Medicine · Social Work Education and Practice · Social Work
Social work, the family and women's equality in post-war Australia
Social work as women's work
Recruitment and retention of social work personnel within public child welfare
An update on census data
Social Work as a Profession
Social Care Work in the Recent Past
Themes in a history of the social work profession
Panacea or scapegoat
| Citations per year | 0.21 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1987 - 2008 (22) |
| Highly cited | No |