Meaning of "welfare work" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF WELFARE WORK

welfare work  [ˈwɛlfɛə wɜːk]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WELFARE WORK

Welfare work is a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES WELFARE WORK MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Social work

Social work is a professional and academic discipline that seeks to improve the quality of life and subjective well-being of individuals, groups, and communities through research, policy, community organizing, direct practice, crisis intervention, and teaching for the benefit of those affected by social disadvantages such as poverty, mental and physical illness or disability, and social injustice, including violations of their civil liberties and human rights. A person who practices social work is called a social worker. In the UK, the title Social Worker is protected by law and only those who have undergone approved training at university either through a Bachelor or Masters degree in Social Work and are registered with the appropriate regulatory body may practice social work and be called a social worker. Social workers typically undergo a systematic set of training and qualifications that are distinct from those of social care workers, care assistants or social care workers, who may undertake a social work role but not necessarily have the qualifications or professional skills of a qualified social worker.

Definition of welfare work in the English dictionary

The definition of welfare work in the dictionary is the provision of help and advice to people in need.

TRANSLATION OF WELFARE WORK

Find out the translation of welfare work to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of welfare work from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «welfare work» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 福利工作
• Translator English - Spanish: obra Social
• English: welfare work
• Translator English - Hindi: कल्याण का काम
• Translator English - Arabic: العمل رفاهية
• Translator English - Russian: благосостояния работы
• Translator English - Portuguese: trabalho social
• Translator English - Bengali: কল্যাণ কাজ
• Translator English - French: le travail social
• Translator English - Malay: Kerja kebajikan
• Translator English - German: Wohlfahrtspflege
• Translator English - Japanese: 福祉事業
• Translator English - Korean: 복지 사업
• Translator English - Javanese: Kesejahteraan
• Translator English - Vietnamese: công việc phúc lợi
• Translator English - Tamil: நலன்புரி வேலை
• Translator English - Marathi: कल्याण कार्य
• Translator English - Turkish: Refah işi
• Translator English - Italian: lavoro sociale
• Translator English - Polish: prace opiekuńcze
• Translator English - Ukrainian: добробуту роботи
• Translator English - Romanian: lucru bunăstare
• Translator English - Greek: έργο της κοινωνικής πρόνοιας
• Translator English - Afrikaans: welsynswerk
• Translator English - Swedish: välfärdsarbete
• Translator English - Norwegian: velferdsarbeid

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WELFARE WORK»

Discover the use of welfare work in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to welfare work and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Gender and Institutions: Welfare, Work and Citizenship

This book makes a major contribution to debates about the reshaping of our institutions as we move towards the twenty-first century.

Moira Gatens, Alison Mackinnon, 1998

Making Welfare Work: Reconstructing Welfare for the Millennium

In Making Welfare Work, Frank Field challenges the current political orthodoxy, particularly its emphasis on the role of legislation alone in bringing about social improvement in a welfare state.

Frank Field, 2001

Contested Learning in Welfare Work: A Study of Mind, ...

Despite this it remains a challenge to clearly understand the links between social and state welfare work in these terms. Beyond the extremely weak forms of recognition of state welfare work within the field of social work (by social worker ...

Peter H. Sawchuk, 2013

Trends in Welfare, Work and the Economic Well-being of ...

Thomas Gabe. Over the period examined in this section, a variety of economic and demographic factors, and policy interventions are generally thought to have affected cash welfare caseloads. Increased numbers of single-mother families, ...

Thomas Gabe, 2003

Welfare, Work, and Well-Being

Mary Clare Lennon. Yet another research strand considers the effects of income insecurity and financial strain on parents' mental health and parenting behavior ( Conger, Conger, & Elder, 1997; Elder, 1974; Jackson, Brooks-Gunn, Huang, ...

Mary Clare Lennon, 2001

Labour welfare and industrial hygiene

8.1 Welfare Facilities by Employer 8.2 Welfare Facilities by the Government 8.3 Welfare Activities by the Trade Unions 8.4 Welfare Work by Voluntary Agencies INTRODUCTION The crux of the problem of labour welfare, whether under ...

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Comprehensive Handbook of Social Work and Social Welfare, ...

CURRENT STATUS OF CHILD WELFARE: ISSUES, PRACTICES, AND CONTROVERSIES As described at the beginning of this chapter, child welfare work plays out in a taxing, complex environment embedded in a larger, and often times ...

Barbara W. White, 2008

Steps in the Evolution of Baby Welfare Work in Chicago: ...

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series.

Sherman Colver Kingsley, 2010

Welfare Reform: Three States' Approaches Show Promise of ...

... self-sufficiency. In an attempt to focus their welfare programs more on work and increase participation further, many states more recently requested waivers of federal law to Page 2 GAO/HEHS-97-80 Welfare Work Participation Requirements ...

David P. Bixler, 1997

Welfare reform : implications of increased work ...

... is a CD-ROM database that Page 30 GAO/HEHS-97-75 Welfare Reform and Child Care Supply Appendix I Estimating Percentage of Demand That Could Be Met by Supply of Known Child Care Estimating New Demand Under Welfare Work ...

United States. General Accounting Office, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Children and Families