Macro social work built Social Security, Medicare, the minimum wage, and the 40-hour work week. Now it makes up less than 10% of the profession. The history is remarkable. Clinical drift is a crisis.

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The History of Macro Social Work

The history of macro social work traces a profession built on systems change and examines how clinical drift systematically marginalized the macro tradition

The Macro Lens