A definition of social work: A thesis in sociology

								


     pensions for widowed mothers.


VI. INDUSTRIAL AND ECONOMIC PROBLEMS.


Cooperation, health insurance, British labor party program,
minimum wage, soldiers’ and sailors’ insurance, state care of
mothers and infants, inheritance, land monopoly, the position
of the negro in industry, trade unions in the public service,
social work and the revolution demanded by radicals, causes
for the existence of the I. W. W. and economic justice.

 VII. THE LOCAL COMMUNITY.


Special needs of rural communities                               11
Recreational facilities of all grades                             6
Americanization on a neighborhood basis                           3
Effects of war on a neighborhood                                  1
Other papers not easily classified deal with various expedients
for focussing local interest, settlements, the community store
and community kitchen, the social unit plan, enlistment of the
business men’s interest in community progress and councils of
national defence.

 VIII. MENTAL HYGIENE.


State departments or societies and other organized agencies

      for mental hygiene                                            8
Training of social workers for the new task                       4
Experience of the war in the care of neuroses                     3
Care for the feeble-minded                                        3
Mental hygiene in industry                                        3
Mental hygiene and delinquency                                    2
Mental hygiene and education                                      1
One paper each on--

      Stimulation of public interest in care for the insane, the

      psychiatric element in all case work, the individual versus

      the family as the unit of social work, social problems as

      the reaction of mental types, the court’s dealings with the

      mentally afflicted, and the relation of social work to the

      state’s program, to hospitals, physicians, and the community

      in fostering mental hygiene. A few other papers present

      the actual lore of the new subject.

 IX. THE ORGANIZATION OF SOCIAL FORCES.


Publicity for social work activities and education of

     the community in appreciating them                       6
Impetus of the war to large scale organization for common

     purposes and the desirability of integrating social

     service                                                  6
“War chest”                                                 3
Registration of cases                                       3
Other papers treat of--

      Endorsement and standardization of social work agencies,

      salary standards for social workers and their labor

      turnover and teaching materials for learners.

 X. 1918--GENERAL PROBLEMS OF WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION.



       Ten papers no different in import from those in other