Hunger and Social Work: An introduction

The textbook offers an introduction to the elementary connection between social work and the human need for food. At present, hunger as a basic human need has become a secondary issue in social work, although the two are constitutively linked. The tasks of social work lie in the fulfilment of basic human needs, especially in its historical predecessors.

For the first time, this introduction provides an overview of the multi-layered aspects of social work with regard to satisfying the need f...