Workfare : Why Good Social Policy Ideas Go Bad /
One of the greatest, as well as the most debated, social policy ideas of the 1980s and 1990s was workfare. In Workfare: Why Good Social Policy Ideas Go Bad, Maeve Quaid delves into the definition and history of workfare, and then continues with a critical and comparative analysis of workfare program...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto, Ont. :
University of Toronto Press,
2002.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- What is workfare? Something, nothing, or anything and everything
- Policy chic : putting the poor to work
- California's GAIN program : the operation was a success but the patient died
- Wisconsin : Tommy Thompson and his welfare miracle
- New York City's Work Experience Program : 'same shit, different day
- 'Learnfare' in New Brunswick : tune in, turn on, drop out
- Alberta's mandatory 'voluntary opportunities'
- Ontario works program : mutiny on the bounty
- Why good ideas for bad : a six-hazard model.