Selling welfare reform : work-first and the new common sense of employment /
Ridzi, Frank.
Selling welfare reform : work-first and the new common sense of employment / Frank Ridzi. - New York : New York University Press, ©2009. - 1 online resource (x, 319 pages) : illustrations - - Book collections on Project MUSE. UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Archive Political Science and Policy Studies Foundation. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-313) and index.
"Selling work-first" -- "You're all doing the wrong thing" -- "A new way of doing business" -- New technology and new customers -- "We are a thorn in the side of those who won't change" : buying into work-first -- "Not everybody fits into their box" : work-first, gender, race, and families -- "Don't blame me, it wasn't up to me!" -- Envisioning "a new common sense."
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.
9781441615664 (electronic bk.) 1441615660 (electronic bk.) 9780814777374 0814777376 (cl ; alk. paper) (cl ; alk. paper) (pb ; alk. paper) (pb ; alk. paper)
Public welfare--United States.
Welfare recipients--Employment--Government policy--United States.
Poor--Government policy--United States.
Aide sociale--Bénéficiaires--Travail--Politique gouvernementale--États-Unis.
Pauvres--Politique gouvernementale--États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Poverty & Homelessness.
Poor--Government policy.
Public welfare.
Welfare recipients--Employment--Government policy.
Sozialhilfe
Reform
United States.
USA
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
HV95 / .R53 2009eb
362.5/5680973
Selling welfare reform : work-first and the new common sense of employment / Frank Ridzi. - New York : New York University Press, ©2009. - 1 online resource (x, 319 pages) : illustrations - - Book collections on Project MUSE. UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Archive Political Science and Policy Studies Foundation. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-313) and index.
"Selling work-first" -- "You're all doing the wrong thing" -- "A new way of doing business" -- New technology and new customers -- "We are a thorn in the side of those who won't change" : buying into work-first -- "Not everybody fits into their box" : work-first, gender, race, and families -- "Don't blame me, it wasn't up to me!" -- Envisioning "a new common sense."
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.
9781441615664 (electronic bk.) 1441615660 (electronic bk.) 9780814777374 0814777376 (cl ; alk. paper) (cl ; alk. paper) (pb ; alk. paper) (pb ; alk. paper)
Public welfare--United States.
Welfare recipients--Employment--Government policy--United States.
Poor--Government policy--United States.
Aide sociale--Bénéficiaires--Travail--Politique gouvernementale--États-Unis.
Pauvres--Politique gouvernementale--États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Poverty & Homelessness.
Poor--Government policy.
Public welfare.
Welfare recipients--Employment--Government policy.
Sozialhilfe
Reform
United States.
USA
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
HV95 / .R53 2009eb
362.5/5680973