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Stretched thin : poor families, welfare work, and welfare reform /
This volume examines the effects of mid 1990s welfare reform in the state of Oregon. The reforms made cash assistance temporary and contingent on recipients' seeking and finding employment. Based on comprehensive research conducted in the late 1990s, researchers interviewed and observed low-inc...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : questioning the success of welfare reform
- History and political economy of welfare in the United States and Oregon
- Velvet gloves, iron fists, and rose-colored glasses : welfare administrators and the official story of welfare restructuring
- Doing the work of welfare : enforcing "self-sufficiency" on the front lines
- Negotiating neoliberal ideology and "on the ground" reality in welfare work
- The other side of the desk : client experiences and perspectives on welfare restructuring
- Life after welfare : the costs of low-wage employment
- Conclusion : reforming welfare "reform."