The End of Social Work: A Defense of the Social Worker in Times of
Transformation explores the deeply flawed status quo of the social
work profession. Its message is clear: it is not acceptable for
social workers to labor under intolerable working conditions and
financial strain because they work with the poor and oppressed.
Steve Burghardt addresses why social workers no longer have the
income and status once shared with nurses and teachers. He
addresses the leadership failures that cause social workers to be
blamed for not ending poverty yet expected to handle burnout
through self-care rather than collective action. He looks beyond
nostrums of social justice to the indifference to systemic racism
in the profession's journals and programs and explores the damage
caused by substituting individuated measures of unvalidated
competencies for grounded wisdom in practice. It is thus no
accident that a profession committing to "care for everyone"
undermines the herculean work that so many social workers do on
behalf of the poor, marginalized, and oppressed. Situating the work
in the crises of 2020, Burghardt ends with a proposed call to
action directed at a transformed profession. Such a campaign would
be situated within the national struggles for racial justice,
climate change, and economic equality so that social work and
social workers regain their legitimacy as authentic advocates
fighting alongside the poor and oppressed-and doing so for
themselves as well. A rallying cry for social work itself, The End
of Social Work is an ideal resource for social work programs and
practicing social workers driven to enact meaningful change.
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