Stretched Thin : Poor Families, Welfare Work, and Welfare Reform /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Morgen, Sandra
Other Authors: Weigt, Jill Michele, 1967-, Acker, Joan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (Program)
Oregon. > Adult and Family Services Division.
United States. > Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996.
Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (United States)
Sozialwesen
Empirische Sozialforschung
Welfare recipients.
Social workers.
Public welfare administration.
Public welfare.
Poor families.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
Travailleurs sociaux > Oregon.
Familles pauvres > Oregon.
Aide sociale > Beneficiaires > Oregon.
Aide sociale > Administration > Oregon.
Aide sociale > Oregon.
Social workers > Oregon.
Poor families > Oregon.
Welfare recipients > Oregon.
Public welfare administration > Oregon.
Public welfare > Oregon.
Oregon
Oregon.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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."

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