‘Khaki Fever’ during the First World War: A Historical Case Study of Social Work's Approach towards Young Women, Sex and Moral Danger

When we read about social work history today, it is often through stories of the organisations (e.g. the Charity Organisation Society, the Settlement Movement, Poor Law institutions) and the pioneers (Mary Richmond, Jane Addams, Octavia Hill, Eileen Younghusband, to name only a few) who shaped the profession, making it the evidence-based, values-led, psycho-social profession of which we are proud to be a part today. But what was ‘social work’...