‘If you could change one thing’: Social service workers and restructuring

Australian Social Work

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 20-34

  Baines, Donna ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Macro Constraint; Practice Knowledge; Restructuring

Indexed keywords

EID: 85044984089     PISSN: 0312407X     EISSN: 14470748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03124070500449754     Document Type: Article

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