Just Leave Them... Where They Belong:
The Cruel Business of the Culture-Cult, Service Industry, and Welfare Dependency
Foundations of a Capability-Based Theory for Social Work, Public Policy, and Aboriginal Self-Determination.
NEW BOOK—Milton James is a social work practitioner whose work in Aboriginal employment and welfare spans more than three decades.
After more than fifty years of Aboriginal welfare policy, is it time to question the assumptions on which it was built?
Drawing on decades of firsthand experience in Aboriginal welfare, employment and worker mobility, Milton James examines the policies, institutions and professional orthodoxies that have shaped Aboriginal affairs—and asks whether they have increased individual capability and independence or helped perpetuate welfare dependency.
At the centre of the book is a practical alternative: worker mobility—assisting people from remote welfare settlements to move to where real employment already exists, with intensive support where necessary, rather than continually constructing programs around places where viable labour markets do not exist.
Just Leave Them… Where They Belong is not another theoretical account of Aboriginal policy. It is an extensive record of what was tried, what happened, what failed—and what actually worked.
Publisher: Critical Social Work Publishing House
ISBN - 978-0-9943346-7-1
All sales (ex. postage/handling) of this book go to registered charity Boys from the Bush Projects Inc.