Selling Welfare Reform : : Work-First and the New Common Sense of Employment /

Selling Welfare Reform : : Work-First and the New Common Sense of Employment / / Frank Ridzi.

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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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Ridzi, Frank,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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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

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