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Social Welfare A World View

Paperback • 1997 • English • 1. edition

Social Welfare A World View

By Katherine S. Van Wormer

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About the book

Dedicated to the world's marginalized people, this exhaustively documented text studies that United States' social welfare system in comparison to international approaches with extensive coverage of the systems in Canada, the United Kingdom, Japan, Mexico, and Norway. This timely offering coincides with social work's growing international commitment, and explores how this concern affects the profession on both individual and policy-making levels. Initially van Wormer describes social work's hist...Show more

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ISBN

9780830414352

Publisher

Nelson-Hall Publishers

Published year

1997

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Social Welfare A World View

Format

Paperback

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