| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 104.4

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Karen W. Tice. Tales of Wayward Girls and Immoral Women: Case Records and the Professionalization of Social Work. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 1998. Pp. x, 260. Cloth $49.95, paper $26.95.

For anyone wondering about the reasons for hostility toward social workers, this book is a good place to start, although it does have some positive things to say about them. Because the book focuses on the history of case records and how they were generated, it presents a very close picture of social workers as they functioned on a day-to-day basis. Furthermore, the way Karen W. Tice analyzes the evolution of case recording says a lot about social work's efforts to establish itself as a profession; how the substance of social work differs from related fields, such as psychology and psychiatry; and the nature of social workers' relationships with their clients plus some glimpses of clients. Most social welfare historians have taken case recording for granted. Consequently, Tice's book is important in calling attention to a neglected area and also very important for its analysis of what amounts to case workers at work. . . .

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