SWP 31A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Managerialism, Post-Structuralism, Neoliberalism
22 Feb 2017
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Session 3 baines reading: an overview of oppressive social work practice: neoliberalism, inequality and change. (pg. Looks at forces shaping social work practice and workplaces & its impact on labour force and front-line social work practice: globalization, neoliberalism, and managerialism. Egalitarian; processes and practices based on the belief that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities, including social, political and economic ones. Global capitalism plays an important role in the way in which we are able to think about, generate, and attempt to enact emancipatory social work. Emancipatory; to free someone from oppressive restrictions and conventions. In the case of aop, emancipation is thought to be a mutual process in which people contribute to their own land and each other"s liberation. Globalization refers to the closer integration of economic, social, political, environmental, and legal policies across nations. A growing worldwide gap between the rich and poor has become characteristic of global capitalism.
