TY - BOOK AU - Stepney,Paul AU - Popple,Keith TI - Social Work and the Community: A Critical Context for Practice SN - 140399126X (alk. paper) AV - HV245 .S734 2008 U1 - 361.3 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, New York PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - Social service KW - Great Britain KW - Community organization N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 176-191) and index; Introduction to the idea of community -- The contribution of community studies and increased state intervention in communities and neighbourhoods -- Rethinking community : globalisation, neo-liberalism and inequality -- Community as an area of social policy -- Community as an organising focus for social policy -- Community care : promoting an empowering service or using the market to contain costs? -- Remaking community : communitarianism and the modernisation of the welfare state -- Social work and the community : from theory to practice -- The theory and practice of community of social work -- Community work and community action -- Future possibilities for community-based social work in an international context ER -