Workfare States

Author : Jamie Peck
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2001-02-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 157230636X

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This book examines the political economy of workfare, the umbrella term for welfare-to-work initiatives that have been steadily gaining ground since candidate Bill Clinton's 1992 promise to "end welfare as we know it." Peck traces the development, diffusion, and implementation of workfare policies in the United States, and their export to Canada and the United Kingdom. He explores how reforms have been shaped by labor markets and political conditions, how gender and race come into play, and how local programs fit into the broader context of neoliberal economics and globalization. The book cogently demonstrates that workfare rarely involves large-scale job creation, but is more concerned with deterring welfare claims and necessitating the acceptance of low-paying, unstable jobs. Integrating labor market theory, critical policy analysis, and extensive field research, Peck exposes the limitations of workfare policies and points toward more equitable alternatives.

Author : Jamie Peck
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001-02-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 157230636X

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Workfare States by Jamie Peck Pdf

This book examines the political economy of workfare, the umbrella term for welfare-to-work initiatives that have been steadily gaining ground since candidate Bill Clinton's 1992 promise to "end welfare as we know it." Peck traces the development, diffusion, and implementation of workfare policies in the United States, and their export to Canada and the United Kingdom. He explores how reforms have been shaped by labor markets and political conditions, how gender and race come into play, and how local programs fit into the broader context of neoliberal economics and globalization. The book cogently demonstrates that workfare rarely involves large-scale job creation, but is more concerned with deterring welfare claims and necessitating the acceptance of low-paying, unstable jobs. Integrating labor market theory, critical policy analysis, and extensive field research, Peck exposes the limitations of workfare policies and points toward more equitable alternatives.

Author : Jennifer Mittelstadt
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006-03-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780807876435

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From Welfare to Workfare by Jennifer Mittelstadt Pdf

In 1996, Democratic president Bill Clinton and the Republican-controlled Congress "ended welfare as we know it" and trumpeted "workfare" as a dramatic break from the past. But, in fact, workfare was not new. Jennifer Mittelstadt locates the roots of the 1996 welfare reform many decades in the past, arguing that women, work, and welfare were intertwined concerns of the liberal welfare state beginning just after World War II. Mittelstadt examines the dramatic reform of Aid to Dependent Children (ADC) from the 1940s through the 1960s, demonstrating that in this often misunderstood period, national policy makers did not overlook issues of poverty, race, and women's role in society. Liberals' public debates and disagreements over welfare, however, caused unintended consequences, she argues, including a shift toward conservatism. Rather than leaving ADC as an income support program for needy mothers, reformers recast it as a social services program aimed at "rehabilitating" women from "dependence" on welfare to "independence," largely by encouraging them to work. Mittelstadt reconstructs the ideology, implementation, and consequences of rehabilitation, probing beneath its surface to reveal gendered and racialized assumptions about the welfare poor and broader societal concerns about poverty, race, family structure, and women's employment.

Author : Evelyn Z. Brodkin,Gregory Marston
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781626160019

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Work and the Welfare State by Evelyn Z. Brodkin,Gregory Marston Pdf

Work and the Welfare State places street-level organizations at the analytic center of welfare-state politics, policy, and management. This volume offers a critical examination of efforts to change the welfare state to a workfare state by looking at on-the-ground issues in six countries: the US, UK, Australia, Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands. An international group of scholars contribute organizational studies that shed new light on old debates about policies of workfare and activation. Peeling back the political rhetoric and technical policy jargon, these studies investigate what really goes on in the name of workfare and activation policies and what that means for the poor, unemployed, and marginalized populations subject to these policies. By adopting a street-level approach to welfare state research, Work and the Welfare State reveals the critical, yet largely hidden, role of governance and management reforms in the evolution of the global workfare project. It shows how these reforms have altered organizational arrangements and practices to emphasize workfare’s harsher regulatory features and undermine its potentially enabling ones. As a major contribution to expanding the conceptualization of how organizations matter to policy and political transformation, this book will be of special interest to all public management and public policy scholars and students.

Author : John Krinsky
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226453675

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Free Labor by John Krinsky Pdf

One of former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s proudest accomplishments is his expansion of the Work Experience Program, which uses welfare recipients to do routine work once done by unionized city workers. The fact that WEP workers are denied the legal status of employees and make far less money and enjoy fewer rights than do city workers has sparked fierce opposition. For antipoverty activists, legal advocates, unions, and other critics of the program this double standard begs a troubling question: are workfare participants workers or welfare recipients? At times the fight over workfare unfolded as an argument over who had the authority to define these terms, and in Free Labor, John Krinsky focuses on changes in the language and organization of the political coalitions on either side of the debate. Krinsky’s broadly interdisciplinary analysis draws from interviews, official documents, and media reports to pursue new directions in the study of the cultural and cognitive aspects of political activism. Free Labor will instigate a lively dialogue among students of culture, labor and social movements, welfare policy, and urban political economy.

Author : Eva Bertram
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780812247077

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The Workfare State by Eva Bertram Pdf

The Workfare State recounts the history of the evolving social contract for poor families from the New Deal to the present. Challenging conventional accounts, Eva Bertram argues that conservative Southern Democrats in the 1960s and 1970s led the way in developing the modern workfare state, well before Republican campaigns in the 1980s.

Author : Paul K. Edwards,Tony Elger
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0720123704

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The Global Economy, National States and the Regulation of Labour by Paul K. Edwards,Tony Elger Pdf

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1064 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Administrative law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105064138832

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The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America by Anonim Pdf

The Code of Federal Regulations is the codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Food stamps
ISBN : MINN:31951003065148W

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Workfare in the Food Stamp Program by Anonim Pdf

Author : Deborah Cowen
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780802092335

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Military Workfare by Deborah Cowen Pdf

Despite the centrality of war in social and political thought, the military remains marginal in academic and public conceptions of citizenship, and the soldier seems to be thought of as a peripheral or even exceptional player. Military Workfare draws on five decades of restricted archival material and critical theories on war and politics to examine how a military model of work, discipline, domestic space, and the social self has redefined citizenship in the wake of the Second World War. It is also a study of the complex, often concealed ways in which organized violence continues to shape national belonging. What does the military have to do with welfare? Could war-work be at the centre of social rights in both historic and contemporary contexts? Deborah Cowen undertakes such important questions with the citizenship of the soldier front and centre in the debate. Connecting global geopolitics to intimate struggles over entitlement and identity at home, she challenges our assumptions about the national geographies of citizenship, proposing that the soldier has, in fact, long been the model citizen of the social state. Paying particular attention to the rise of neoliberalism and the emergence of civilian workfare, Military Workfare looks to the institution of the military to unsettle established ideas about the past and raise new questions about our collective future.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Public Assistance and Unemployment Compensation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Economic assistance, Domestic
ISBN : UCR:31210008591552

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Welfare Reform by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Public Assistance and Unemployment Compensation Pdf

Author : Lødemel, Ivar,Trickey, Heather
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1861341954

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'An Offer You Can't Refuse' by Lødemel, Ivar,Trickey, Heather Pdf

Provides an overview of workfare programmes implemented in six European countries and the United States, including their political and policy contexts. Explores similarities and differences among programmes.

Author : Eric Shragge
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1551930102

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Workfare by Eric Shragge Pdf

In addition to the myths, this book explores the reality of workfare, examining programs from across Canada, and comparing the experience in the United States.

Author : Brendan McQuade
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520971349

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Pacifying the Homeland by Brendan McQuade Pdf

The United States has poured over a billion dollars into a network of interagency intelligence centers called “fusion centers.” These centers were ostensibly set up to prevent terrorism, but politicians, the press, and policy advocates have criticized them for failing on this account. So why do these security systems persist? Pacifying the Homeland travels inside the secret world of intelligence fusion, looks beyond the apparent failure of fusion centers, and reveals a broader shift away from mass incarceration and toward a more surveillance- and police-intensive system of social regulation. Provided with unprecedented access to domestic intelligence centers, Brendan McQuade uncovers how the institutionalization of intelligence fusion enables decarceration without fully addressing the underlying social problems at the root of mass incarceration. The result is a startling analysis that contributes to the debates on surveillance, mass incarceration, and policing and challenges readers to see surveillance, policing, mass incarceration, and the security state in an entirely new light.

Author : Richard Crisp,Del Roy Fletcher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Employment re-entry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132935722

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A Comparative Review of Workfare Programmes in the United States, Canada and Australia by Richard Crisp,Del Roy Fletcher Pdf