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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ridzi, Frank
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, ©2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Public welfare > United States.
Welfare recipients > Employment > Government policy > United States.
Poor > Government policy > United States.
Aide sociale > Bénéficiaires > Travail > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
Pauvres > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Poverty & Homelessness.
Poor > Government policy
Public welfare
Welfare recipients > Employment > Government policy
Sozialhilfe
Reform
United States
USA
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "Selling work-first"
  • "You're all doing the wrong thing"
  • "A new way of doing business"
  • New technology and new customers
  • "We are a thorn in the side of those who won't change" : buying into work-first
  • "Not everybody fits into their box" : work-first, gender, race, and families
  • "Don't blame me, it wasn't up to me!"
  • Envisioning "a new common sense."

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