Welfare, the Working Poor, and Labor

Louise B. Simmons (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

2004
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-7656-1300-4 (ISBN)

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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.

Louise Simmons

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;

Erscheint lt. Verlag	25.2.2004
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
ISBN-10	0-7656-1300-X / 076561300X
ISBN-13	978-0-7656-1300-4 / 9780765613004
Zustand	Neuware