Black Women, Work, and Welfare in the Age of Globalization (eBook)

Sherrow O. Pinder (Autor)

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2018
224 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
9781498538978 (ISBN)

Infos

Pinder examines the interrelatedness of globalization and workfare and how this interrelatedness is impacting black single mother welfare recipients. The book builds on these insights and seeks to illuminate a crucial, but largely overlooked aspect of the negative impact of workfare on black women and the American economy.

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Pinder explores how globalization has shaped, and continues to shape, the American economy, which impacts the welfare state in markedly new ways. In the United States, the transformation from a manufacturing economy to a service economy escalated the need for an abundance of flexible, exploitable, cheap workers. The implementation of the Personal Responsibility Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), whose generic term is workfare, is one of the many ways in which the government responded to capital need for cheap labor. While there is a clear link between welfare and low-wage markets, workfare forces welfare recipients, including single mothers with young children, to work outside of the home in exchange for their welfare checks. More importantly, workfare provides an "e;underclass"e; of labor that is trapped in jobs that pay minimum wage. This "e;underclass"e; is characteristically gendered and racialized, and the book builds on these insights and seeks to illuminate a crucial but largely overlooked aspect of the negative impact of workfare on black single mother welfare recipients. The stereotype of the "e;underclass,"e; which is infused with racial meaning, is used to describe and illustrate the position of black single mother welfare recipients and is an implicit way of talking about poor women with an invidious racist and sexist subtext, which Pinder suggests is one of the ways in which "e;gendered racism"e; presents itself in the United States. Ultimately, the book analyzes the intersectionality of race, gender, and class in terms of welfare policy reform in the United States.

Autor

Sherrow O. Pinder is professor of political science and multicultural and gender studies at California State University, Chico.

Inhalt

IntroductionChapter 1: Conceptual FrameworkChapter 2: Globalization, American Economy, and Restructuring of WelfareChapter 3: A Closer Look at Workfare and Black Single Mother Welfare RecipientsChapter 4: The Social Rights of Citizenship, Welfare, and the Undeserving PoorConclusion: Resisting the Neoliberal Workfare StateReferences

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.5.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Schlagworte: american economy • Black Feminism • black single mothers • Black Studies • black women • cheap labor • critical race theory • distribution of resources • Ethnic Discrimination • gendered racism • Globalization • Intersectionality • intersectionality framework • Low-Wage Labor Market • minimum wage • neo-liberal • political economy of race • poor black women • Poor Families • poor women • Poverty • PRWORA • rights-claims • Single Mothers • social rights • Social Welfare Policy • underclass • undeserving poor • welfare • Welfare Recipients • Welfare reform • women's studies • Workfare
• ISBN-13: 9781498538978 / 9781498538978