Social Work as a Profession

Publication Date: April 1914

Publisher:

Author(s): Oscar Leonard

Research Area: Social conditions

Keywords: communal organization; employment; professions; social services

Type: Other

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

The author discusses the emergence of social work as a professional field, comparing it to the modern recognition of the rabbi as a professional man. He argues that the Jewish community should follow the gentile community in recognizing the special expertise and comptence of professional social workers as opposed to volunteer amateurs, however talented.

In Bulletin of the National Conference of Jewish Charities 1913-1914, Baltimore, Vol.IV:9, ed. Lee F. Frankel.