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social work
[social a. 7.]
Work of benefit to those in need of help, esp. professional or voluntary service of a specialized nature concerned with community welfare and family or social problems arising mainly from poverty, mental or physical handicap, maladjustment, delinquency, etc. Also (with hyphen) attrib.
1890Girl's Own Paper 27 Dec. 197/3 ‘Stump oratory’ may safely be regarded as quite beyond the limits of a woman's social work. 1892S. M. Lindsay in Annals Amer. Acad. Pol. & Social Sci. Nov. 76 The growth of the Krupp cast steel works and the motives of the firm in their social work. 1908Busy Man's Mag. Jan. 88/1 Few who read Mrs. Humphrey Ward's interesting books know of her social work in London. 1914Lancet 31 Jan. 345/2 (heading) The sixth international congress of social work and service. 1931Economist 10 Jan. 57/1 For in spite of the very considerable development which organised social work has attained in the United States..it is not capable of shouldering the responsibility of caring for the wreckage of a major industrial depression. 1964New Statesman 10 Apr. 581/1 An experienced social work teacher from Canada. 1975Listener 14 Aug. 212/1 By the use of social-work skills, probation officers seek to help the offender cope. 1979G. Wagner Barnardo xvii. 299 No teacher training colleges or social work courses existed. 1980Times Lit. Suppl. 28 Nov. 1347/1 Notwithstanding the vagueness of its aims, social work became sanctified as a discrete discipline under the Social Services Act of 1970.
Hence social worker, one who undertakes social work, esp. someone professionally trained.
1904Ann. Reg. Univ. Chicago 245 A training center for social workers. 1912F. G. D'Aeth in H. Bosanquet Social Conditions in Provincial Towns iv. 50 A Local Committee of Social Welfare..consists of clergy, ministers, and social workers. 1931Economist 10 Jan. 57/1 Social workers in the United States are meeting an unusually ‘hard winter’ with feelings almost of despair. 1955Earl Winterton Fifty Tumultuous Years 117 Few, if any, of the social workers of today are old enough to remember conditions then. 1964[see almoner1 4]. 1975New Yorker 11 Aug. 27/1 Ma says her social worker will not permit her to move her furniture until the rent is paid for August. 1977B. Pym Quartet in Autumn xxii. 201 A real bossy social-worker type. |