Work and the welfare state : street-level organizations and workfare politics /

Mostrar otras versiones (1)

This book 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, Denma...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Brodkin, Evelyn Z. (Editor ), Marston, Gregory (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington : Georgetown University Press, [2013]
Colección:Public management and change.
Temas:
Social policy.
Welfare state.
Welfare recipients > Employment.
Politique sociale.
État providence.
Aide sociale > Bénéficiaires > Travail.
public policy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Services.
velferdsstaten > sosialpolitikk
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface / Evelyn Z. Brodkin and Gregory Marston
  • Introduction. Work and the welfare state / Evelyn Z. Brodkin ; Street-level organizations and the welfare state / Evelyn Z. Brodkin
  • What's at issue : politics, policies, and jobs. The American welfare state : two narratives / Michael Lipsky ; The policies of workfare : at the boundaries between work and the welfare state / Evelyn Z. Brodkin and Flemming Larsen ; Double jeopardy : the misfit between welfare-to-work requirements and job realities / Susan Lambert and Julia Henly
  • Governance and management : workfare's "second track". Triple activation : introducing welfare-to-work into Dutch social assistance / Rik van Berkel ; Active labor market reform in Denmark : the role of governance in policy change / Flemming Larsen ; Performance management as a disciplinary regime : street-level organizations in a neoliberal era of poverty governance / Joe Soss, Sanford Schram, and Richard Fording
  • Street-level organizations and the practices of workfare. Commodification, inclusion, or what? : workfare in everyday organizational life / Evelyn Z. Brodkin ; Race, respect, and red tape : inside the black box of racially representative bureaucracies / Celeste Watkins-Hayes ; Good intentions and institutional blindness : migrant populations and the implementation of German activation policy / Martin Brussig and Matthias Knuth ; Front-line workers as intermediaries : the changing landscape of disability and employment services in Australia / Gregory Marston
  • Administrative justice : challenging workfare practices. Conditionality, sanctions, and the weakness of redress mechanisms in the British "new deal" / Michael Adler ; Redress and accountability in U.S. welfare agencies / Vicki Lens
  • Conclusion. Work and the welfare state reconsidered : reflections on past practices and future prospects / Evelyn Z. Brodkin.

Ejemplares similares