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Social work   /sˈoʊʃəl wərk/   Listen
Social work

noun
1.
Any of various services designed to aid the poor and aged and to increase the welfare of children.






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"Social work" Quotes from Famous Books



... from honest work; we may well wonder if they would work themselves at such dirty and dangerous occupations. Many a charity visitor who preaches the gospel of toil is herself, except for some fitful and ineffective "social work," a useless ornament to society who hardly knows the meaning of "toil." If idleness is a mote in the eyes of the poor, it is a beam in the eyes of the rich. Neither blood nor rank nor sex excuses from the universal duty. "We must all toil or steal ...
— Problems of Conduct • Durant Drake

... my fatal powerlessness was that the Jew did not trust me, which meant that I lost my self-confidence. Living together with the Jews as my co-citizens, being in constant personal and business relations with them, in the field of consorted social work, I came face to face with the Jewish "problem" every single day,—and every single day of my life I felt with intolerable keenness all the falsehood and wretched ambiguity of my situation, that of an oppressor against one's will. In the doctor's ...
— The Shield • Various



Words linked to "Social work" :   social service, welfare work



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