Barefoot social workers that are engaged in child protection have been widely recognized, and the Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs promoted them nationwide in 2019. Although several discussions have been held on the topic of rural child protection in China, little attention has been paid to barefoot social workers. Thus, we developed a “craftsmanship model”, based on a conceptual exploratory model of barefoot social workers’ task identity. Adopting data from a nationwide survey collected in China in 2018, we studied 756 barefoot social work...
