ABSTRACT
The past fifty years have seen enormous changes but some of the things which we strive to realize are the same now as they were then. Far-sighted and clear-minded people of fifty years ago and more saw what needed to be done long before we had the changed attitudes, the knowledge, the social machinery or the necessary skill to carry these things into effect. In the last fifty years there has been an almost unbelievable change in the whole of that social environment which so much concerned social reformers in the early decades of this century. Traditionally, social work and social workers were associated with poverty, with the problem of how to secure for the poor essential goods and services without at the same time pauperizing them. In earlier times social work attempted to cover the water front, which was natural enough when so many needs went unmet.
