Addresses the question of how aspiring occupations became professions and, in particular, examines how social workers historically went about this profession-bu

This collection examines the variety of relationships between statutory and voluntary sectors, and considers two hundred and fifty years of welfare provision on

An elegantly written study that charts the relationship between Christianity and social service in Britain since the eighteenth century and presents a challengi

Today it is impossible to separate discussion of poverty from the priorities of state welfare. A hundred years ago, most working-class households avoided or cop