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Social workers frequently experience overwhelming pressure from their clients and from their own and other organisations; they experience both a lack of resources and the apparent irrelevance of what they have been trained to do to the actual material and social circumstances of their clients. They experience very often the intense pressure of working in emergency situations and trying to cope with more work than can be accomplished properly in the time available.
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K. Marx, Grundrisse (Penguin, 1973).
Ibid., p. 101.
S. Cohen, ‘It’s All Right for You to Talk’ in Radical Social Work, eds R. Bailey and M. Brake (Edward Arnold, 1975).
Ibid., p. 88.
Ibid., p. 78.
M. Nicolaus, Introduction to K. Marx, op. cit., p. 61.
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Corrigan, P., Leonard, P. (1978). Introduction. In: Social Work Practice Under Capitalism. Critical Texts in Social Work and the Welfare State. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15879-9_1
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