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Preface Acknowledgments 1. Social Work: A Radical Profession? 2. Radical Social Work in the Progressive Era 3. The Spider Web Conspiracy and the Death of Progressivism 4. The Rank and File Movement and the Precursors to McCarthyism 5. Anti-Communism and the Attack on the New Deal 6. Social Work Response to McCarthyism 7. The Revival of Radicalism in Social Work 8. The Redefinition of Social Work Radicalism, 1970-1999--Part I 9. The Redefinition of Social Work Radicalism, 1970-1999--Part II 10. Social Work Radicalism at the End of the Twentieth Century 11.
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