Work and the Welfare State : Street-Level Organizations and Workfare Politics /

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Work and the Welfare State 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,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Marston, Gregory (Editor ), Brodkin, Evelyn Z. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2013
Colección:Public management and change.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Welfare recipients > Employment.
Welfare state.
Social policy.
Electronic books.
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
  • References
  • About the contributors.

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