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Article: Influencing social policy in a time of devolution: upholding social work's great tradition.
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- Social Work
- Article date:
- July 1, 1999
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Since the founding of social work as a profession in 1898, social workers have been urged continually to assume a key role in shaping social welfare policy (Domanski, 1998). In their commitment to working for the betterment of social living and social justice for all people, many social workers such as Jane Addams, Grace and Edith Abbott, Sophia Breckenridge, Jeanette Rankin, Frances Perkins, Harry Hopkins, Wilbur Cohen, Bertha Reynolds, Richard Cloward, Charles Grosser, Whitney Young, Ron Dellums, Barbara Mikulski, and others, have steadfastly proposed and tried to influence social legislation, policies, and ordinances.
Nevertheless, we believe that most ...