Clients and the Working Class

Abstract

We now set out to explore the nature and implications of the relationships which exist between clients and those other sections of the working class who have no contact with social workers and social services departments. In particular this chapter attempts to come to terms with the often strained and antagonistic feelings that at times characterise relations between clients and the ‘respectable’ working class. This has constituted one of the barriers to a united working-class response to some of the issues and problems confronting the poor.