Louise B. Simmons

Welfare, the Working Poor, and Labor (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume analyses poverty and welfare reform within a context of low-wage work and the contours of the labour market that welfare recipients are entering. It aims to bring labour into the discussion of welfare reform and creates a bridge between the domains of labour and welfare.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317452324
• Artikelnr.: 43087396

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;