ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses two contrasting aspects of the history of the Association. Social workers themselves have made critical reference to the fact that they no longer participate in reform movements or ‘carry the banners’. The first period in the history of the Association’s attempts at salary negotiation ended in 1944. By that date interest in salary negotiations as a proper activity of the Association had become more apparent. The history of this activity of the Association of Psychiatric Social Workers falls into three periods. The first, from 1930 until 1944, was marked by the Association’s hesitant entry into discussions of salary, and the gradual solution of some of the problems of dependency on the Child Guidance Council and on psychiatrists. The main problems facing the Association in this field have been fairly simple, though their solution has taken time and involved considerable difficulties.
