Pimping the welfare system : empowering participants with economic, social, and cultural capital / Kerry C. Woodward.

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Woodward, Kerry C, 1975-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, 2013.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780739168837
0739168835
1299288839
9781299288836

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Pimping the welfare system.DDC classification:

362.5/560979463 23

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HV98.C3 W66 2013eb

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Contents:

Acknowledgments -- Introduction: an empowering approach to welfare programs -- Beyond "work first" : repressive vs. empowering welfare programs -- Encouraging work, discouraging the hustle : economic capital -- Bridging and bonding : social capital -- Pedagogy matters : cultural capital -- Education vs. therapy : comparing Lewiston and Strafford -- Conclusion: making the best of a bad policy -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Summary: Pimping the System is an ethnographic study of two welfare offices that empowered welfare-reliant women by providing dominant economic, social, and cultural capital in ways that acknowledged and respected the types of capital participants already possessed. It highlights ways that policy makers and front-line workers can best assist welfare participants, and shows the potential for welfare programs to be sites of individual and community empowerment.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Pimping the System is an ethnographic study of two welfare offices that empowered welfare-reliant women by providing dominant economic, social, and cultural capital in ways that acknowledged and respected the types of capital participants already possessed. It highlights ways that policy makers and front-line workers can best assist welfare participants, and shows the potential for welfare programs to be sites of individual and community empowerment.

In English.

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