Producing spaces of care in public urban places: Discovering relations between social workers' work knowledge and social spaces.
Social work studies have been attentive to the significance of space and place, but few have explored the relationship between space and social workers' 'work knowledge'. The literature on professional discretion has focused on ways in which bureaucratization, rules, and procedures structure and lim...
| Publicado en: | British Journal of Social Work Vol. 55; no. 4; pp. 1735 - 1753 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jun2025
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