Welcome to Tea and Textbooks, a podcast where I casually read aloud my various textbooks while drinking my morning tea. 

This episode features the preface for the Altruistic Imagination:  A History of Social Work and Social Policy in the United States by J. H. Ehrenreich 

Now this book is drier than your eyes in the middle of a desert sandstorm, but hopefully you can get some things done as you listen your way through this.

Tea and Textbooks, Episode 1: Preface Altruistic Imagination

Welcome to Tea and Textbooks, a podcast where I casually read aloud my various textbooks while drinking my morning tea.

This episode features the Chapter 1 for the Altruistic Imagination: A History of Social Work and Social Policy in the United States by J. H. Ehrenreich. 

In this chapter, we dive into the history of social work and social policy beginning with the Progressive era (Think late 1800s early 1900s). Despite heavy conversations about class, discussion of racism feels conspicuously absent from the text, and there is a lot of benefit of the doubt bestowed upon the middle class in regard to their work for progressive policy.

Join me as we learn how modern instutional social work was born from the middle class' panicked desire to avoid class revolution and mega rich asshole's desire to keep exploiting working people as much as possible!

This chapter is so dry you hear me choke at one point!

Alex Grandstaff