Women with(out) class
Social Workers in the Twentieth-Century United States
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3140937 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel Walkowitz, Daniel J Walkowitz (New York University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 323-344 |
| Publication date | 2005-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women s History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0961-2025 • E-ISSN: 1747-583X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09612020500200425 |
| OpenAlex | W2067600083 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 11 |
This article examines women's work culture in professional-managerial labor in the twentieth-century United States through a history of social workers, an occupation particularly well suited to examine how race and gender shape work cultures. It suggests a chronology for understanding the changing ways in which social workers adopted middle-class identities that draw upon both professionalism and unionism. Imaging themselves variously as workers and 'middle-class' professionals, each identity had implications for their ability to understand and respond to the changing working conditions at both the beginning and end of the twentieth century that threatened to undermine them. Middle-Class Worker and Professional Worker identities in the 1930s and 1960s armed male and female social workers to defend their unions and fight for their clients against economizing bosses, and miserly state politicians. At the end of the century, however, the rush of social workers into the role of therapists gave them a work identity that relatively disempowered them to deal with the welfare cutbacks or the new work of deindustrialization with 'jobless recovery'
Deindustrialization · Genealogy · Middle class · Political science · Social class · Social group · Social identity theory · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Gender Studies · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · History · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Race, History, and American Society · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Social Work Education and Practice · Social Work · Artificial Intelligence
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,15 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2008 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |