AI and the Disruption of Welfare: Challenges for Social Work Education and Practice

Contributor(s): Ottmann, Goetz (Editor), Noble, Carolyn (Editor)

ISBN: 9781032741123

Publisher: Routledge

Hardcover

$200.00

Pub Date: December 8, 2025

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Illustrated

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.75" H x 9.21" L x 6.14" W ( 1.41 lbs) 308 pages

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Series: Routledge Advances in Social Work

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Description:

This book with 22 chapters from eminent scholars, focuses on the role of AI-enabled technology in surveillance and coercive 'welfare' bringing into view how advanced technology is used to shift the boundaries between welfare, penal, and carceral state and its very real impact on social work education and practice.