ABSTRACT
In reviewing the book as a whole, two subjects emerge as central in the accounts of the contributors. The first may be described as the process of becoming a social worker, that is, the ways that authors explain their decision to enter a career in social work. The second focuses on what it is like to be a social worker: the paths which people have taken in social work and their feelings about the job of social work, today and in the future. The accounts demonstrate that there is no single way of becoming a social worker, and no unitary social work task. Instead, we see the variety of social workers and social work, and the complex nature of social work in the past and in the present.
