Screen LibraryWork and the welfare state : street-level organizations and workfare politics /
"Work and the Welfare State places street-level organizations at the analytic center of welfare-state politics, policy, and management. This volume offers a critical examination of efforts to change the welfare state to a workfare state by looking at on-the-ground issues in six countries: the U...
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Georgetown University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Washington, D.C. : |
| Publication Dates: | [2013] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Public management and change series
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| Summary: |
"Work and the Welfare State places street-level organizations at the analytic center of welfare-state politics, policy, and management. This volume offers a critical examination of efforts to change the welfare state to a workfare state by looking at on-the-ground issues in six countries: the US, UK, Australia, Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands. An international group of scholars contribute organizational studies that shed new light on old debates about policies of workfare and activation. Peeling back the political rhetoric and technical policy jargon, these studies investigate what really goes on in the name of workfare and activation policies and what that means for the poor ... |
| Carrier Form: | ix, 324 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781626160002 (paperback) : 1626160007 (paperback) |
| Index Number: | HN18 |
| CLC: | C913.7 |
| Call Number: | C913.7/W926 |
| Contents: | Preface / Evelyn Z. Brodkin and Gregory Marston -- Introduction -- Work and the welfare state / Evelyn Z. Brodkin -- Street-level organizations and the welfare state / Evelyn Z. Brodkin -- What's at issue: politics, policies, and jobs -- The American welfare state : two narratives / Michael Lipsky -- The policies of workfare : at the boundaries between work and the welfare state / Evelyn Z. Brodkin and Flemming Larsen -- Double jeopardy : the misfit between welfare-to-work requirements and job realities / Susan Lambert and Julia Henly -- Governance and management : workfare's "second track" -- Triple activation : introducing welfare-to-work into dutch social assistance / Rik van Berkel ... |