Social service
Here are entered works on the methods employed in social work, public or private. Works on tax-supported welfare activities are entered under Public welfare. Works on privately supported welfare activities are entered under Charities. Works that discuss collectively the various policies, programs, services, and facilities to meet basic human needs relating to the quality of life, such as education, health, welfare, etc. are entered under Human services.
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Broader term:Narrower terms:- Social service -- Africa
- Social service -- Canada
- Social service -- Congresses
- Social service -- Europe
- Social service -- France
- Social service -- Germany
- Social service -- Ghana
- Social service -- Great Britain
- Social service -- History
- Social service -- Illinois
- Social service -- International cooperation
- Social service -- Italy
- Social service -- Michigan
- Social service -- New York (State)
- Social service -- North Carolina
- Social service -- Periodicals
- Social service -- Religious aspects
- Social service -- Research
- Social service -- Southern States
- Social service -- Spain
- Social service -- United States
- Blind -- Services for
- Charities
- Child care services
- Community-based social services
- Industrial welfare
- Medical social work
- Military social work
- National service
- Service learning
- Social advocacy
- Social case work
- Social group work
- Social work administration
- Social work education
- Student affairs services
- Volunteer workers in social service
- Women -- Services for
- Women in charitable work
- Young volunteers in social service
- Benevolent institutions
- Philanthropy
- Relief stations (for the poor)
- Social service agencies
- Social welfare
- Social work
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Human Rights and Social Work (professional training series #1; 1994), by United Nations Centre for Human Rights- The Art of Board Membership (New York: Association Press, 1950), by Roy Sorenson, contrib. by Harper Sibley, illust. by George Maurice Lichty (page images at HathiTrust)
- Handbook of Organization and Method in Hospital Social Service: An Outline of Policies As Practiced at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Md. (Baltimore: Norman, Remington Co., 1922), by Margaret Smith Brogden (page images at HathiTrust)
- Social Diagnosis (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1917), by Mary Ellen Richmond (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Tensions between Culture and Human Rights: Emancipatory Social Work and Afrocentricity in a Global World (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2021), ed. by Vishanthie Sewpaul, Linda Kreitzer, and Tanusha Raniga (PDF files at University of Calgary)
- Social Work in Africa: Exploring Culturally Relevant Education and Practice in Ghana (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2012), by Linda Kreitzer (PDF at University of Calgary)
- Social Work in Africa: Exploring Culturally Relevant Education and Practice in Ghana (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2012), by Linda Kreitzer (PDF at University of Calgary)
- Social Work in Africa: Exploring Culturally Relevant Education and Practice in Ghana (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2012), by Linda Kreitzer (PDF at University of Calgary)
- Social Work in Africa: Exploring Culturally Relevant Education and Practice in Ghana (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2012), by Linda Kreitzer (PDF at University of Calgary)
- Women of Canada: Their Life and Work (ca.1900), by National Council of Women of Canada (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Historical Sketch of the Charitable Institutions of Winnipeg (Winnipeg: Manitoba Free Press Co., 1899), by Mrs. George Bryce (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Alberta's Day Care Controversy: From 1908 to 2009 and Beyond (Edmonton: AU Press, c2011), by Tom Langford (PDF with commentary at AU Press)
- Alberta's Day Care Controversy: From 1908 to 2009 and Beyond (Edmonton: AU Press, c2011), by Tom Langford (PDF with commentary at AU Press)
- Alberta's Day Care Controversy: From 1908 to 2009 and Beyond (Edmonton: AU Press, c2011), by Tom Langford (PDF with commentary at AU Press)
- Alberta's Day Care Controversy: From 1908 to 2009 and Beyond (Edmonton: AU Press, c2011), by Tom Langford (PDF with commentary at AU Press)
- Effective Services for Young Children: Report of a Workshop, ed. by Lisbeth B. Schorr, Deborah Both, and Carol Copple (page images with commentary at NAP)
- Poverty and Charity in Aix-en-Provence, 1640-1789 (originally published 1976; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Cissie C. Fairchilds (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
- The US Armed Forces German Youth Activities Program, 1945-1955 (1956), by United States Army, Europe, Historical Division (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Staging Philanthropy: Patriotic Women and the National Imagination in Dynastic Germany, 1813-1916 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2001), by Jean H. Quataert (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Institution of Kaiserswerth on the Rhine, for the Practical Training of Deaconesses, Under the Direction of the Rev. Pastor Fliedner: Embracing the Support and Care of a Hospital, Infant and Industrial Schools, and a Female Penitentiary (published anonymously, but attributed to Nightingale in some sources; London: Printed by the inmates of the London Ragged Colonial Training School, 1851), contrib. by Florence Nightingale (page images at HathiTrust)
- Memoir on Pauperism (London: Civitas, c1997), by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. by Seymour Drescher, contrib. by Gertrude Himmelfarb (PDF at Civitas)
- Woman's Mission: A Series of Congress Papers on the Philanthropic Work of Women, By Eminent Writers (New York: C. Scribner's Sons; London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co., ca. 1893), ed. by Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts
- How to Help Cases of Distress: A Handy Reference Book for Almoners and Others (fourth edition; London: Charity Organisation Society and Longmans, Green and Co., 1890), by Charles Stewart Loch (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Book of the Bastiles: or, The History of the Working of the New Poor Law (London: J. Stephens, 1841), by G. R. Wythen Baxter
- Quicksilver: or, The Boy With No Skid to His Wheel, by George Manville Fenn, illust. by Frank Dadd (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Under the Old Roof, by Hesba Stretton (HTML at Wayback Machine)
- Reinventing Civil Society: The Rediscovery of Welfare Without Politics (c1993), by David G. Green (PDF at Civitas)
- An Abstract From the Account of the Asylum, or, House of Refuge, Situate in the Parish of Lambeth, in the County of Surry: Instituted in the Year 1758, for the Reception of Friendless and Deserted Orphan Girls, the Settlement of Whose Parents Cannot be Found (London: Printed by order of the Guardians, 1799), by Asylum for Orphan Girls (London, England) (page images at NIH)
- Helping the Poor: Friendly Visiting, Dole Charities and Dole Queues (c2001), by Robert Whelan, contrib. by Barendina Smedley (PDF at Civitas)
- London Labour and the London Poor (London: Griffin, Bohn and Co., 1861-1862), by Henry Mayhew
- Volume 1: illustrated HTML at Tufts
- Volume 1: multiple formats at Google
- Volume 2: illustrated HTML at Tufts
- Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 3: illustrated HTML at Tufts
- Volume 3: multiple formats at Google
- extra volume: illustrated HTML at Tufts
- extra volume: multiple formats at archive.org
- Global Social Work: Crossing Borders, Blurring Boundaries (Sydney: Sydney University Press, c2014), ed. by Carolyn Noble, Helle Strauss, and Brian Littlechild (HTML and PDF with commentary at Sydney University Press)
- Social Service Review (partial serial archives)
- Social Forces (partial serial archives)
- The Journal of Social Forces (full serial archives)
- When the Blizzard Blows (Baltimore: National Federation of the Blind, c1994), ed. by Kenneth Jernigan (HTML at nfb.org)
- Who Cares? How State Funding and Political Activism Change Charity (c2007), by Nick Seddon (PDF at Civitas)
- House of Hospitality (1939), by Dorothy Day (HTML at Catholic Worker)
- Essays, Political, Economical, and Philosophical (3 volumes from various editions printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1798-1802), by Benjamin Rumford (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Literature of Philanthropy (New York: Harper and Bros., 1893), ed. by Frances A. Goodale (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Social Diagnosis (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1917), by Mary Ellen Richmond (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Complete Works of Count Rumford, Published by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (4 volumes; Boston: Estes and Lauriat, ca. 1870-1875), by Benjamin Rumford (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Art of Handling Men (Philadelphia: H. Altemus Co., c1910), by James H. Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
- Reports of the Gainsborough Commission: Life and Labour in Germany; With an Appendix: Infirmity and Old Age Pensions in Germany (London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co., ca. 1907), ed. by John Laidlay Bashford (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Social Work in Hospitals: A Contribution to Progressive Medicine (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, c1913), by Ida M. Cannon (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Becoming a Self Advocate Training Program: A Curriculum Resource for Staff Assisting People With Intellectual Disability to Develop Self Advocacy Skills (Abbotsford: VALID, 1996), by Melissa Shaw and Kevin Stone (PDF at valid.org.au)
- A Changing Psychology in Social Case Work (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1930), by Virginia P. Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
- Practicing the Ways of Democracy Through the Girls' League (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University, 1943), by Sarah Martha Sturtevant and Ethel Rosenberry (page images at HathiTrust)
- Global Social Work: Crossing Borders, Blurring Boundaries (Sydney: Sydney University Press, c2014), ed. by Carolyn Noble, Helle Strauss, and Brian Littlechild (HTML and PDF with commentary at Sydney University Press)
- Woman's Mission: A Series of Congress Papers on the Philanthropic Work of Women, By Eminent Writers (New York: C. Scribner's Sons; London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co., ca. 1893), ed. by Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts
- Mildmay: or, The Story of the First Deaconess Institution (second edition; London: E. Stock, 1893), by Harriette J. Cooke (page images at HathiTrust)
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