Louise B Simmons

Welfare, the Working Poor, and Labor

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Since the enactment of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, it has become clear that the issues associated with welfare are now inextricably woven into the problems of low-wage work. This volume analyzes poverty and welfare reform within a context of low-wage work and the contours of the labor market that welfare recipients are entering. Given the new welfare regime of time limits and work requirements, problems of welfare cannot be separated from problems of work, politics, organizing, and other questions of social and economic policy. Although there have been many volumes on welfare reform, the unique contribution of this volume is that it brings labor into the discussion and creates a bridge between the domains of labor and welfare.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 151mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780765613004
• ISBN-10: 076561300X
• Artikelnr.: 21323472

Autorenporträt

Louise Simmons

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Louise Simmons; Part I Working Poor and the Contours of Welfare Reform; Chapter 1 Discipline and Seduction
Frances Fox Piven; Chapter 2 The Mirage of Welfare Reform
Max B. Sawicky; Chapter 3 The Long Economic Downturn of the New Century
Boushey Heather
Cherry Robert; Part II Workers and Workforce Issues; Chapter 4 A Report from the Front Lines of Welfare Reform
Fran Bernstein
Cecilia Perry; Chapter 5 Privatization
Labor-Management Relations
and Working Conditions for Lower-Skilled Employees
Immanuel Ness
Roland Zullo; Chapter 6 The Workforce Investment Act and the Labor Movement
Helena Worthen; Chapter 7 Revolving Doors
Chirag Mehta
Nik Theodore; Part III Labor and the Struggles over Social Welfare and Work; Chapter 8 Evaluating the Living-Wage Strategy
David J. Olson
Erich Steinman; Chapter 9 Labor-Welfare Linkages and the Imperative of Organizing Low-Wage Women Workers
Louise Simmons; Chapter 10 Urban Poverty
Social Welfare
and Human Rights
James Jennings;