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Concerns are growing that attention to risk aversion and the use of bureaucratic approaches in human service organizations constrain social work supervision to an administrative function rather than attending to the practice needs of social workers. This article explores how long-standing concepts of positional and expert power of supervisors can be reconstructed to resist the pressures of the current sociopolitical, economic landscape. A mixed method study about postdegree supervision using a Web survey provides evidence of 636 social workers' experiences of power relations during supervision and what they say they need from supervisors to nurture a collaborative, critically reflective exchange of knowledge and decision making. The article concludes with implications for supervision practice and suggestions for future research.

The article examines a values conflict between a client's family system, the client's social worker, and the United States government. A practice case illustrates how the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996, commonly known as welfare reform, has forced immigrants to become American citizens, and thereby has caused strife and emotional distress to immigrants and their families. A citizenship choice conflict is analyzed through a values classification model. The social worker, who is caught in the middle of the conflict, must decide whether or not to uphold his clients decision not to become a citizen. A discussion follows, which explores the social worker's ethical dilemma, its outcome, and its justification.

This article uses a cultural criminology approach to examine cyber campaigns waged by the hacker collective, Anonymous, against the jihadist organization, Islamic State (IS). Employing Jeff Ferrell and Mike Presdee's theory as a conceptual framework, it examines how Anonymous' anti-IS campaigns have been constructed and shaped by characteristics of the late-modern mediascape, including its affordances for carnivalesque transgression, reflexive media, and crowd-sourced politicization. Through reference to key statements and actions made by Anonymous immediately following IS-related attacks in Paris during 2015, our analysis examines high profile social and video media produced by the hacktivist collective, and relevant commentary from news media, experts, and industry representatives. With its focus on resistance and the 'politics of meaning', we argue that cultural criminology has much to offer in unpacking the emotional appeal, craft, public identity, and social representations of Anonymous as a hacktivist collective.

Kangxi (1662-1722),deuxième empereur de la dynastie mandchoue des Qing (1644-1911),fait de Pékin un centre de savoir, s'efforçant notamment d'intégrer les «savoirs occidentaux» importés par les jésuites aux «savoirs chinois»,et les sciences aux savoirs lettrés.À la même époque,l'envoi par Louis XIV de jésuites mathématiciens à l'empereur de Chine institue l'Académie royale des sciences de Paris comme centre vers lequel doivent converger les savoirs provenant de Chine comme du reste du monde,et inscrit la capitale impériale sur la carte du monde comme relais de l'information.Pékin participe ainsi à deux projets de constitution de savoirs universels configurés très différemment,entre lesquels se produisent pourtant des échanges,qui témoignent de la reconnaissance commune de certains objets produits par la circulation des savoirs.

Two decades ago many commentators suggested that economic globalisation had eroded social democratic economic policy capacity. Although this argument has largely been discredited, the global financial crisis has revived the state-market debate. As governments succumb to fiscal consolidation, a similar theory of declining state capacity now challenges social democrats. This article redresses the contemporary situation by using the economic globalisation debate from the mid-1990s to 2005 as a lens through which to comparatively analyse the current fiscal policy positions of the Parti Socialiste and the Labour Party. It draws similarities between the two situations and illustrates how contested notions of the contemporary political economy constrain social democratic fiscal policy capacity, suggesting that greater capacity exists than is currently acknowledged.

Les révolutions anticommunistes de 1989 ont d'importantes implications pour les théories du changement. Elles semblentporter un dernier coup à certains paradigmes évolutionnistes, dialectiques et cycliques du XIXe siècle ainsi qu'à l'image del'utopie sociale. Elles fournissent aussi les preuves solides d'un paradigme alternatif du « devenir social ». Les théories duchangement doivent freiner les aspirations prédictives, devenir plus spécifiques par rapport à l'histoire et se défaire du déterminisme,du fatalisme et du finalisme. Parmi les théories du changement, la théorie de la modernisation doit être revue avecun soin particulier plutôt qu'abandonnée. À l'avenir, les théories du changement, en portant attention aux interactions humaineset en adoptant le modèle du devenir social, devraient accorder une place plus importante aux facteurs « mous », intangibles,comme les codes culturels, l'orientation des valeurs, les formes de discours, les façons d'agir et de penser.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction Researching Women's History -- General Sources for Researching Women -- Chapter 1 Women in Domestic Service -- Why Were Women in Service? -- How Did Women Enter Domestic Service? -- What Did They Do? -- How Did They Live? -- Researching Domestic Servants -- Chapter 2 Women on the Land -- Why Did Women Work in Agriculture? -- What Did They Do? -- How Did They Live? -- Land Girls and Beyond -- Researching Female Farm Labourers -- Chapter 3 Women in the Factories -- Who Worked in the Factories? -- Why Did Women Work in Factories? -- What Did They Do? -- How Did They Live? -- 1Wartime Industries and Women Workers -- Researching Female Factory Workers -- Chapter 4 Middle-Class Women -- Who Was 'Middle-Class'? -- What Did They Do? -- How Did They Live? -- Researching Middle-Class Women -- Chapter 5 Aristocratic Women -- Who Was an Aristocrat? -- What Did They Do and How Did They Live? -- Changing Fortunes -- Researching Female Aristocrats -- Chapter 6 Criminal Women -- Where Were They Concentrated? -- What Were Their Crimes? -- What Punishments Were They Given? -- Reforming 'Darkest England' -- Researching Female Criminals -- Bibliography -- A Short Timeline of Key Events in Women's Social History.

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ABSTRACTThis article explores the issues and dilemmas that arise when social workers attempt to work with African refugee and asylum seeking children and their families. There is a complex interplay between social workers' skills and knowledge in this area and the prevailing social attitudes towards these groups of service users. By initially setting the context of mass movement of peoples from situations of danger in their countries of origin, the discussion highlights the key issues and shows the tensions of practice intervention in this area. Drawing on a small‐scale research study with social workers and discussions with immigration officers and workers in voluntary agencies working with refugees and asylum seekers, the article draws some conclusions about the lessons that can be learnt in order to improve practice.

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to present the construct of social intra-organizational connection (SIC). This construct reflects the extent to which a focal actor believes his alters present behaviors of social inclusion in relation to himself. This assessment compares the ego's expectations of being included and the behavior of inclusion performed by those alters with whom the actor has more frequent interactions. The effects of this construct are tested in the organizational domain regarding the intention to leave, in the domain of co-workers regarding cooperation and in the family domain regarding work–family conflict.


Design/methodology/approach
The survey data were collected from 380 Brazilian workers.


Findings
The results confirmed the effects of SIC in the relational domain of the organization through the variation in the focal actor's intention to leave. In the sphere of coworkers, the effects of SIC were found in the variation of the degree of cooperation. In the family sphere, SIC had an influence upon the intensity of the work–family conflict.


Originality/value
The research indicates that the behavior of making direct contacts and more frequent interactions by the focal actor extends to other relational spheres through the transitions of the organizational member between the domains of organization, coworkers and family. This paper draws attention to the need to consider the local networks, both within and beyond the organization, and their effects on each other.

Canada was one of the civilizing outposts that formed part of the British plan of imperial hegemony. This liberal democratic white settler society is the context where the new female-dominated social work profession developed. Using various historical archives of the mission statements and practice of early Canadian social work, I critically examine how first-wave feminisms, hegemonic imperial discourses, and settler colonial structures of governance worked as formative factors in the birth of Canadian social work and illustrate this with the life of an early Toronto social worker, Joan Arnoldi (D.O.B. 1882).