Selling Welfare Reform : Work-First and the New Common Sense of Employment / Frank Ridzi.
2009
HV95 .R53 2016
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Selling Welfare Reform : Work-First and the New Common Sense of Employment / Frank Ridzi.
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ISBN
9780814777374
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2009]
Copyright
©2009
Language
English
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In English.
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1 online resource
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10.18574/nyu/9780814775936.001.0001 doi
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HV95 .R53 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
362.55680973
Summary
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 of the reformed welfare system. Selling Welfare Reform chronicles how entrepreneurial efforts ranging from front-line caseworkers to high-level administrators set the pace for restructuring a resistant bureaucracy. At the heart of this remarkable institutional transformation is a market-centered approach to human services that re-framed the definition of success to include diversion from the present system, de-emphasis of legal protections and behavioral conditioning of poor parents to accommodate employers. Ridzi draws a compelling portrait of how welfare staff and their clients negotiate the complexities of the low wage labor market in an age of global competition, exposing the realities of how the new "common sense" of poverty is affecting the lives of poor and vulnerable Americans.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
1 "Selling Work-First"
2 "You're All Doing the Wrong Thing"
3 "A New Way of Doing Business"
4 New Technology and New Customers
5 "We Are a Thorn in the Side of Those Who Won't Change"
6 "Not Everybody Fits into Their Box"
7 "Don't Blame Me, It Wasn't Up to Me!"
8 Conclusion
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Contents
Acknowledgments
1 "Selling Work-First"
2 "You're All Doing the Wrong Thing"
3 "A New Way of Doing Business"
4 New Technology and New Customers
5 "We Are a Thorn in the Side of Those Who Won't Change"
6 "Not Everybody Fits into Their Box"
7 "Don't Blame Me, It Wasn't Up to Me!"
8 Conclusion
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author