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Class is a concept which is frequently used by social workers when attempting to develop a radical practice, but is one which presents them with substantial problems. These problems arise in part from the many different ways in which class has been used as a category of analysis and, in particular, with the way in which dass has been utilised in bourgeois sociology, and its impact on social work.
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See, for example, B. M. Spinley, The Deprived and the Privileged (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1954).
A recent example is Jeremy Seabrook, The Unprivileged (Penguin, 1973); and a more extreme example can be found in J. B. Mays, Growing up in the City (Liverpool University Press, 1956).
H. Parker, View from the Boys (David & Charles, 1974).
K. Marx and F. Engels, ‘Communist Manifesto’, in Marx and Engels Selected Works (Lawrence & Wishart, 1968) p. 35.
K. Marx, Capital vol. I (Lawrence & Wishart, 1974) p. 166.
See J. H. Goldthorpe, D. Lockwood et al., The Affluent Worker (Cambridge University Press, 1968).
H. Marcuse, One Dimensional Man (Sphere Books, 1968).
C. W. Mills, Power, Politics dr People (Oxford University Press, 1962) p. 317.
Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks (Lawrence & Wishart, 1971) p. 5.
V. I. Lenin, ‘What is to be Done?’, in Selected Works, vol. I (Lawrence & Wishart, 1964) p. 227.
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Corrigan, P., Leonard, P. (1978). Class. 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_9
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