The New Structural Social Work: Ideology, Theory, and Practice

The New Structural Social Work presents a coherent and consistent theory of progressive social work. With oppression as its central focus, the text demonstrates the shortcoming of welfare capitalism as a social system and how conventional social work fails to respond to systemic social problems. Emphasizing a progressive social work ethic, this text explores how students can incorporate a radical alternative to conventional social work within their own practice. Authors Bob Mullaly and Marilyn Dupre have fully updated this much-anticipated new edition.

Bob Mullaly is senior scholar and former dean in the Faculty of Social Work at University of Manitoba. Previously, he taught in the Department of Social Work at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia, and in the social work program that he founded at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick. He has co-authored the recent third edition of Challenging Oppression and Confronting Privilege with Juliana West (OUP Canada, 2018).

Marilyn Dupre is assistant professor and director of the School of Social Work at St. Thomas University. She has previously taught in social work departments at Carleton University and University of Manitoba. Marilyn has published articles in Social Work Education, and her research interests include structural social work theory and practice, critical anti-oppressive theory and practice, and critical disability studies and social work education. In addition to her scholarship, she has a long history of in-service social work practice, including four years as the child welfare program manager for the Government of New Brunswick.