Full Description
This book situates the development of social work in Slovenia and Yugoslavia during the period of state socialism in a broader European and international context. Drawing on international historiography, it explores how ideological, economic and social differences shaped diverse social work traditions and value systems.
Contents
Introduction
1. "The Communists Were Rather Ashamed than Proud to Establish Social Work": Memory Work, Heroic History and the Silenced Microhistories
2. The Development of the First Schools of Social Work in Yugoslavia: Between the Enthusiasm of Women and the Demands of the State
3. Social Policy and Social Protection in Yugoslavia
4. Coercive Care: Social Work Attitudes toward People with Mental Health Problems and Disabilities
5. Women, Violence and Social Work in State Socialism
6. "The Feeble-Minded Child," "The Abandoned Children," The "Derailed Girls," "The Deviant Youth": Social Work and Children's Rights in Socialist Social Work
7. Nationalism without Ethnicities: Social Workers' Attitudes toward Roma, Refugees, and the "Erased"
8. Conclusion
