TY - BOOK AU - Stepney,Paul AU - Popple,Keith TI - Social work and the community: a critical context for practice SN - 9781403991263 (pbk.) : PY - 2008/// CY - Basingstoke PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - Social service KW - Great Britain KW - Community organization N1 - Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction to the idea of community -- The contribution of community studies and increased state intervention in communities and neighbourhoods -- Rethinking community : globalisation, neo-liberalism and inequality -- Community as an area of social policy -- Community as an organising focus for social policy -- Community care : promoting an empowering service or using the market to contain costs? -- Remaking community : communitarianism and the modernisation of the welfare state -- Social work and the community : from theory to practice -- The theory and practice of community of social work -- Community work and community action -- Future possibilities for community-based social work in an international context ER -