Case Critical: Social Services and Social Justice in Canada

by Ben Carniol

Incorporating the critical perspectives, emphasis on diversity, and pointed suggestions for change that made the previous editions into bestsellers, Ben Carniol pulls together today's most pertinent research, critical analysis, and practice examples and presents them in this accessible and useful sixth edition of "Case Critical."
In the context of the current economic and political climate, this new edition discusses First Nations issues, the increasing corporatization of service, and the explicit link between social work practice and social movements. Carniol questions illegitimate privilege created by colonialism, racism, patriarchal capitalism, heterosexism, ableism and ageism; posing many key questions. Such as, why, as social work education develops progressive approaches, are so many social services deteriorating? How can social workers become allies with diverse groups of people? And, why do progressives persist in their work?
Carniol, a long-time social work educator and social justice activist, offers his own analysis of social work in Canada today in this provocative and ultimately hopeful sixth edition.

Genres: Social Work, Indigenous, Nonfiction

192 pages, Paperback

First published February 23, 2005

Reviews

[Chelsey · Rating 5 out of 5]

Everyone needs to read this book. Everyone.

[Jennifer · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this for my Social Work 2120 class, and I found it very insightful into the challenges faces social workers today. Easy to read and follow.