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Social Workers in the Depression
Lindeman, Eduard C. | March 7, 1934 issue

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The article presents information on the conditions of social workers during the period of Great Depression in the United States. The position of social work in the depression has been unique. While members of other professions have been facing unemployment, the demand for social workers has increased. As the depression deepened and misery seeped into all social classes social workers were provided with more and more clients. Social workers, with the exception of a small number of executives, have never received high salaries. In 1929 the median salaries of 1,119 case workers ranged from 1,200 dollars in cities of 25,000 population to 1,620 dollars in cities of 500,000 and over.

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SOCIAL service; SOCIAL service -- United States; EXECUTIVES -- Salaries, etc.; INCOME; SOCIAL classes; UNITED States
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