The social services, especially today, are intent on providing ghetto dwellers with
adequate care. But this mission cannot be accomplished unless service workers are
willing to enter ghetto areas and to incur risks to their physical safety. This paper
describes some of the sociopsychological and structural influences which induced
and later enabled a group of social workers to expose themselves to physical
harm. On a more general level, it bears on the following question: how do
organizations ensure that undesirable positions are filled?
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