The vast majority of Americans, regardless of income, consider themselves to be middle-class.  Daniel K. Walkowitz uses the history of social work in the United States to explore how issues of gender, race, and ethnicity have been central to how the notion of class has shifted from an economic to a political category.

Cosponsored by: School of Social Work, Department of History, Department of Human and Community Development, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Afro-American Studies and Research Program, Lorado Taft Lecture Committee, Women's Studies Program