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In a message dated 5/3/2005 8:41:06 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
As a case worker, I assume it was your duty to "take care" of the The question about what a
welfare worker's duty was is a great question and difficult to
answer. Some of my coworkers understood their duty as involving just
policing their clients; others as helping them, but only minimally in
order to maintain the status quo; each worker had a caseload of
approximately sixty families. Still others thought of their job as
regarding their clients are people in desperate need of total care. This
latter group tried often against an unsympathetic bureaucracy to nurture their
clients and help them get off the dole. Unsurprisingly, workers in this
latter group burnt out quickly.
Just how much intervention
was appropriate was determined by a procedure book of too many pages, the
sympathies of one's immediate supervisor, and just how persistent an individual
worker was inclined to be in orchestrating more comprehensive and sometimes
unauthorized aid or virtually unauthorized aid.
Bobby
Robert Justin
Lipkin
Professor of Law Widener University School of Law Delaware |
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