Selling Welfare Reform : Work-First and the New Common Sense of Employment.

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The 1996 Welfare Reform Act promised to end welfare as we knew it. In Selling Welfare Reform, Frank Ridzi uses rich ethnographic detail to examine how new welfare-to-work policies, time limits, and citizenship documentation radically changed welfare, revealing what really goes on at the front lines...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ridzi, Frank
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : NYU Press, 2009.
Temas:
Poor > Government policy > United States.
Welfare recipients > Employment > Government policy > United States.
Public welfare > United States.
Pauvres > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
Aide sociale > Bénéficiaires > Travail > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
Poor > Government policy
Public welfare
Welfare recipients > Employment > Government policy
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Sumario:The 1996 Welfare Reform Act promised to end welfare as we knew it. In Selling Welfare Reform, Frank Ridzi uses rich ethnographic detail to examine how new welfare-to-work policies, time limits, and citizenship documentation radically changed welfare, revealing what really goes on at the front lines of the reformed welfare system. Selling Welfare Reform chronicles how entrepreneurial efforts ranging from front-line caseworkers to high-level administrators set the pace for restructuring a resistant bureaucracy. At the heart of this remarkable institutional transformation is a market-centered ap.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (330 pages)
ISBN:9780814777374
0814777376

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