“…In the 1970s economic crisis increased antagonisms between the state and service users in some countries, prompting a growth in RSW including a practitioner movement around the CaseCon manifesto and magazine in Britain; organisations such as 'Inside Welfare' in Australia; and publications such as Galper (1980) in the US; and Bailey and Brake (1975) and Corrigan and Leonard (1978) in Britain. The history of RSW is contested, seen as either dying out with the defeat of working class struggles in the 1980s (Langan and Lee, 1989) or developing into anti-racist, black and feminist approaches in response to Marxists' failure to respond adequately to racism, sexism and other forms of oppression that intersect with class (Dominelli, 1989). In the early twenty-first century RSW returned to prominence as a distinct approach, with publications such as Lavalette (2011) and the founding of the Social Work Action Network (SWAN) in Britain, connected to similar organisations in countries as diverse as Hungary, Japan and the US (Lavalette and Ferguson, 2011.…”