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central association for social work. (c. s. a.)
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in a number of Swedish towns. A Union for Voluntary Parish Work has existed
for many years in most of the Stockholm parishes, with the object of
providing work, chiefly sewing, to well-recommended persons in need of help. The
yearly service rendered by these associations benefits nearly 600 persons.
The association in Stockholm "By One’s Own Work" purposes to collect the
means to pay cash for the work of aged and destitute women, sell it, and utilize
the possible balance for extending the work.
The North Voluntary Working Home in Stockholm, besides undertaking the
requisite care of the poor, especially in the parishes of St. James and St. John,
facilitates the production of hand-work, either in special work-rooms or in the
home.
The Seamstresses’ Association of Stockholm sees to the moral as well as the
material support of its members. It has formed a fund for sickness and
pensions, and conducts a summer home.
Central Association for Social Work. (C. S. A.)
The institution which in Sweden constitutes a centre for voluntary
social work and from which a great proportion of the work for social
enlightenment proceeds is the Central Association for Social Work.
The proposal leading to its formation was made at a debate in the
spring of 1903, arranged by persons engaged in active social work, on the
question "the best way to advance social work’’, and opinion was united
on the need for establishing a union between associations doing social
work, above all for the purpose of the promotion of social enlightenment.
On June 3rd, the same year, a programme had been prepared for the new
organization, which, according to the regulations adopted, has as its
object "the awakening of interest for and the spreading of the knowledge
of social objects in different strata of society, and thereby to co-operate in
the solution of important social problems". The association aims at
performing this function, among other things, by means of a social library, a
social information bureau and a permanent social exhibition: by arranging
lectures and circles of study on various social questions, and more
comprehensive courses of training in practical social ivork: by instituting
enquiries and investigations: by distributing publications and by assembling
professional men of different social grades to general deliberations and
congresses.
The society consists of a union of associations which pursue social objects,
whose representatives appoint the governing body and are the supreme
authority. The associations which were incorporated in the society in
1913 numbered 61, of which 22 were central organizations, and covered
the whole country.
The library is accessible to the public gratis, partly for study on the spot
and partly for the loan of books, and includes about 2 000 volumes. Besides
the works that give a survey of national economy, social politics etc., it contains
about 100 Swedish and foreign magazines, parliamentary and municipal
publications, committee reports, books of reference, and special literature touching most social
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