Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Ideologies of the Neoliberal Economy
Introduction
1. " Hell on My Face": The Production of Workplace II-literacy
2. Institutional Technologies: Coordinating Families and Schools, Bodies and Texts
3. The Promises and Realities of U.S. Microenterprise Development
4. Work, Disability, and Social Inclusion: The Promise and Problematics of EU Disability Policy
Part II. Mobile Bodies: Incorporation Without Inclusion
Introduction
5. Flexible Hiring, Immigration, and Indian IT Workers' Experiences of Contract Work in the United States
6. Economic Restructuring and the Social Regulation of Citizenship in the Heartland
Part III. The Fictional Worlds of "Unencumbered Workers"
Introduction
7. Training for Low-Wage Work: TANF Recipients Preparing for Health-Care Work
8. Women's Lives, Welfare's Time Limits
9. Personal Responsibility in Professional Work: The Academic "Star" as Ideological Code
10. " Use What You Have, Be Thankful You Have It": Work and the Promise of Social Inclusion for Students with Disabilities
Part IV. Fiscal Discipline: The Texts of Public-Sector Budget Cutting
Introduction
11. Exploring Problematics of the Personal-Responsibility Welfare State: Issues of Family and Caregiving in Welfare-to-Work and Medicaid Consumer-Directed Care Programs
12. The "Textualized" Student: An Institutional Ethnography of a Funding Policy for Students with Special Needs in Ontario
13. (Dis)continuity of Care: Explicating the Ruling Relations of Home Support
Conclusion
References
Contributors
Index