Journal article
Rising wealth and income inequality: A radical social work critique and response
Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work, Vol.29(2), pp.6-18
2017
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Wealth and income inequality is increasing in most societies, including Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, with detrimental social impacts. However, despite professional marginality, the renewal of radical social work critiques with their emphasis on structural issues highlight, the need for alternative practice responses. METHOD: We employed a critical and synthetic review of the literature to examine major trends in wealth and income inequality (both globally, and in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand) and the social work responses to increasing economic inequality. CONCLUSIONS: Resurgent wealth and income inequality has reached new crisis points in both countries but individualising analyses and programmes render most social work responses complicit with neoliberal governance. These responses do little to reduce inequality. Alternatives promoting economic equality can be found in radical social work approaches. IMPLICATIONS: At a minimum, effective radical responses to economic inequality must advocate critical social analyses in social work education and practice, including fostering practitioners' capacity for critical reflection, policy practice and political activism.
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- Title
- Rising wealth and income inequality: A radical social work critique and response
- Authors
- Christine Morley (Author) - Queensland University of TechnologyPhillip Ablett (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and Law
- Publication details
- Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work, Vol.29(2), pp.6-18
- Publisher
- Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers
- Date published
- 2017
- DOI
- 10.11157/anzswj-vol29iss2id283
- ISSN
- 2463-4131
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2017. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
- Organisation Unit
- School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99450344802621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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