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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ridzi, Frank
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : NYU Press, 2009.
Subjects:
Poor > Government policy > United States.
Welfare recipients > Employment > Government policy > United States.
Public welfare > United States.
Pauvres > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
Aide sociale > Bénéficiaires > Travail > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
Poor > Government policy
Public welfare
Welfare recipients > Employment > Government policy
United States
Americans.
Ridzi.
affecting.
clients.
common.
compelling.
competition.
complexities.
draws.
exposing.
global.
labor.
lives.
market.
negotiate.
poor.
portrait.
poverty.
realities.
sense.
staff.
their.
vulnerable.
wage.
welfare.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; 1 "Selling Work-First": Introduction; 2 "You're All Doing the Wrong Thing": Innovation and Common Sense; 3 "A New Way of Doing Business": Performance Measures, Rights, and Common Sense; 4 New Technology and New Customers; 5 "We Are a Thorn in the Side of Those Who Won't Change": Buying into Work-First; 6 "Not Everybody Fits into Their Box": Work-First, Gender, Race, and Families; 7 "Don't Blame Me, It Wasn't Up to Me!": Policy Recommendations from Everyday Experience; 8 Conclusion: Envisioning "A New Common Sense"; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E.
  • FG; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; About the Author.

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