Foreword to the new edition - Introduction - Acknowledgments / R.J. Lawrence - The early years - Meeting the social challenge of industrial society - Social provision in Australia - Taking up the training challenge - Training standards - A new occupational group - The war years - An expansion of opportunities - Under university control - The post-war years - An improving education for social work - The employment of qualified social workers - Towards effective professional organisation - The social work profession - Contemporary issues.
Summary
This is an unchanged republication of the first historical account of the social work profession in Australia.
