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Introduction: Big Moll and the science of scientific charity -- "Armies of vice": evolution, heredity, and the pauper menace -- Friendly visitors or scientific investigators? Befriending and measuring the poor -- Opposition, depression, and the rejection of pauperism -- "I see no terrible army": environmental reform and radicalism in the scientific charity movement -- The potentially normal poor: professional social work, psychology, and the end of scientific charity.

This volume offers an examination of the history of racism and White supremacy in the profession of social work, current efforts to address and repair the harms caused by racism and White supremacy within the profession, and forward-thinking strategies for social work to be part of a broader societal movement to achieve an anti-racist future.

Excerpt from Proceedings of the National Conference of Social Work, Formerly, National Conference of Charities and Correction: At the Forty-Eighth Annual Session Held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June 22-29, 1921 There have been indispensable values contributed by social work up to today. The greatest of these and the most indispensable, as our historians some day will show, is the good will of the social workers, for that is the lubricant of social progress. Without it, prom would be impossible, either in the work that has been done or, ulbelieveinthegmbcrworkthatisstilltobeuccomplished. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.