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Social Working for Social Justice

Michael A. Dover

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This narrative is the story of the author s work in a profession he believed would provide him the ideal opportunity to both earn a living and work for social justice. He discusses his early social activism and social work in Ann Arbor, his social work activism and education in New York, his years in New Orleans working with Social Workers for Social Justice, the early days of the Bertha Capen Reynolds Society (now Social Welfare Action Alliance), and the recent implications of his new identities.

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This narrative is the story of the author s work in a profession he believed would provide him the ideal opportunity to both earn a living and work for social justice. He discusses his early social activism and social work in Ann Arbor, his social work activism and education in New York, his years in New Orleans working with Social Workers for Social Justice, the early days of the Bertha Capen Reynolds Society (now Social Welfare Action Alliance), and the recent implications of his new identities.

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This narrative is the story of the author s work in a profession he believed would provide him the ideal opportunity to both earn a living and work for social justice. He discusses his early social activism and social work in Ann Arbor, his social work activism and education in New York, his years in New Orleans working with Social Workers for Social Justice, the early days of the Bertha Capen Reynolds Society (now Social Welfare Action Alliance), and the recent implications of his new identities.

Key concepts: Sociology, Social philosophy, Social justice, Social work, Social position, Social change, Action (physics), Narrative

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