Moral Wages : The Emotional Dilemmas of Victim Advocacy and Counseling /

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Moral Wages offers the reader a vivid depiction of what it is like to work inside an agency that assists victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. Based on over a year of fieldwork by a man in a setting many presume to be hostile to men, this ethnographic account is unlike most research on th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kolb, Kenneth H., 1975-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social work administration.
Social advocacy.
Human services.
Counseling.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
social services.
counseling.
Services sociaux.
Defense des droits economiques et sociaux.
Service social > Gestion.
Counseling
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Moral Wages offers the reader a vivid depiction of what it is like to work inside an agency that assists victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. Based on over a year of fieldwork by a man in a setting many presume to be hostile to men, this ethnographic account is unlike most research on the topic of violence against women. Instead of focusing on the victims or perpetrators of abuse, Moral Wages focuses exclusively on the service providers in the middle. It shows how victim advocates and counselors-who don't enjoy extrinsic benefits like pay, power, and prestige-are sustained by a dif.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (232 pages).
ISBN:9780520958661

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