The expanded second edition of Social Work and Social Theory aims to radically rework and re-energise the content of the earlier book. Updates to the new edition include: three new chapters (on Foucault, Boltanski and Chiapello, and Negri); a radical editing of the earlier text; updated and topical ‘Reflection and Talk Boxes’ reflecting the major global events reshaping the political landscape in the United Kingdom (Brexit) and United States (the 2016 presidential election); streamlined use of quotations from original sources (e.g. Gramsci, Bourdieu etc.) to aid readability and make complex theoretical concepts even more accessible; a more extensive conclusion; a more contemporary range of references to supersede those which may have become dated since the first edition.