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Author |
: Kerry C. Woodward |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 223 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780739168820 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0739168827 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Pimping the Welfare System by : Kerry C. Woodward
Pimping the System is an ethnographic study of two welfare offices that empowered welfare-reliant women by providing dominant economic, social, and cultural capital in ways that acknowledged and respected the types of capital participants already possessed. It highlights ways ...
Author |
: Kerry C. Woodward |
Publisher |
: Lexington Books |
Total Pages |
: 223 |
Release |
: 2013-03-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780739168837 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0739168835 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Pimping the Welfare System by : Kerry C. Woodward
Based on ethnographic research in Contra Costa County, California (CCC), Pimping the Welfare System highlights a welfare program implemented after welfare reform that differed in significant ways from the predominant work first approach implemented by most welfare programs. The book argues that by imparting dominant economic, social, and cultural capital, CCC’s welfare program empowered participants and improved their quality of life and life chances. Successfully transmitting these types of capital, however, was dependent upon the discourses, practices, and pedagogy deployed by welfare workers—as well as the policies, practices, and resources of the welfare program. In particular, CCC’s welfare workers encouraged the acquisition and use of dominant capital (that which is desired by the labor market) by acknowledging and respecting the various types of capital welfare participants already had, and by encouraging participants to make strategic choices about deploying different types of capital. This book calls into question monolithic understandings of economic, social, and cultural capital and encourages a new conceptualization of capital that resists framing poor women as fundamentally “lacking.” In addition, it points to ways welfare administrators and welfare workers can develop more empowering programs even within the confines of federal, state, and local regulations.
Author |
: Jennifer Randles |
Publisher |
: NYU Press |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2025-03-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1479820601 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781479820603 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis Policing Not Protecting Families by : Jennifer Randles
Controlling, surveilling, and punishing poor families through the child welfare system In a typical year, one in five US children have some interaction with the child welfare system. Countless other families, particularly those who struggle to care for their children due to poverty or economic insecurity, fear child welfare system involvement. Though imagined as a system that protects children from caregivers’ maltreatment, contributors to Policing Not Protecting Families argue that the child welfare system polices and punishes poor parents who are unable to meet white, middle class parenting standards due to structural inequalities. Bringing together scholars from anthropology, sociology, law, and social work, this collection is the first to critically examine the child welfare system’s role in governing poor, disproportionately Black and Native families. It shows that the child welfare system is a key site of poverty governance, or state control and management of poor families. Chapters bring together empirical research from diverse settings across the US, highlighting the system’s interactions with other state systems and its wide impact on marginalized families. Together the chapters illustrate the failure of the child welfare system to protect children and families from the structural inequalities that shape the lives of poor and other marginalized families.
Author |
: Thomas Streissguth |
Publisher |
: Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 289 |
Release |
: 2014-05-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781438127019 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1438127014 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis Welfare and Welfare Reform by : Thomas Streissguth
Provides an overview of the issues associated with welfare and welfare reform in the United States, with a glossary of terms and a fully annotated bibliography.
Author |
: Marisa Chappell |
Publisher |
: University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages |
: 359 |
Release |
: 2012-02-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780812201567 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0812201566 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis The War on Welfare by : Marisa Chappell
Why did the War on Poverty give way to the war on welfare? Many in the United States saw the welfare reforms of 1996 as the inevitable result of twelve years of conservative retrenchment in American social policy, but there is evidence that the seeds of this change were sown long before the Reagan Revolution—and not necessarily by the Right. The War on Welfare: Family, Poverty, and Politics in Modern America traces what Bill Clinton famously called "the end of welfare as we know it" to the grassroots of the War on Poverty thirty years earlier. Marshaling a broad variety of sources, historian Marisa Chappell provides a fresh look at the national debate about poverty, welfare, and economic rights from the 1960s through the mid-1990s. In Chappell's telling, we experience the debate over welfare from multiple perspectives, including those of conservatives of several types, liberal antipoverty experts, national liberal organizations, labor, government officials, feminists of various persuasions, and poor women themselves. During the Johnson and Nixon administrations, deindustrialization, stagnating wages, and widening economic inequality pushed growing numbers of wives and mothers into the workforce. Yet labor unions, antipoverty activists, and moderate liberal groups fought to extend the fading promise of the family wage to poor African Americans families through massive federal investment in full employment and income support for male breadwinners. In doing so, however, these organizations condemned programs like Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) for supposedly discouraging marriage and breaking up families. Ironically their arguments paved the way for increasingly successful right-wing attacks on both "welfare" and the War on Poverty itself.
Author |
: Edgar K. Browning |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 131 |
Release |
: 1978 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:610441102 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis Redistribution and the Welfare System by : Edgar K. Browning
Author |
: United States. Congress House. Committee on Agriculture |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 1400 |
Release |
: 1978 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCAL:B3608410 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Agriculture by : United States. Congress House. Committee on Agriculture
Author |
: Theresa Funiciello |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2021-02-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0578855267 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780578855264 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis Tyranny Of Kindness by : Theresa Funiciello
Called the best book on Poverty in America, Tyranny of Kindness will absolutely change how you think about the solutions to address it. It is an authoritative Indictment of America's welfare system by a women who knows its failings all too well. Theresa Funiciello is a onetime welfare mother whose firsthand experience with the "endless nightmare" of the system forms the emotional, heartrending backdrop to this powerful and timely book. She goes on to expose the absurdities of a system that hurts more people than it helps, while costing taxpayers ever greater amounts. Tyranny Of Kindness goes beyond an analysis of the injustices and inefficiencies of the it to offer a humane, sensible cost-effective alternative.
Author |
: Sheldon Richman |
Publisher |
: The Future of Freedom Foundation |
Total Pages |
: 171 |
Release |
: 2001-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781890687083 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1890687081 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Tethered Citizens by : Sheldon Richman
“How tethered are you?” That’s what Sheldon Richman starts out asking in this indispensable book laying bare “the theory and practice of the welfare state.” Chances are Richman’s answer will widen the eyes even of those who think they’re familiar with the welfare state’s milestones, such as the New Deal. The author digs deeper, unearthing not just milestones but also the very foundation stones of the welfare state. And he shows how deeply welfare-state thinking has penetrated American society. This book exposes the dangers that Americans face with the prospect of socialized medicine. Bringing together the thoughts of twelve eminent advocates of the free-market philosophy, The Dangers of Socialized Medicine explains in an easily readable, well-reasoned way how government policies have caused America’s health-care crisis and why a complete separation of health care and the state is the only real, long-term solution. This book prescribes the tough medicine that Americans need to take to achieve a healthy, prosperous, and free society. What distinguishes Richman’s account of the welfare state is his own consistent adherence to a philosophy of reason and individual rights. He doesn’t compromise — and he sees clearly how others who would defend freedom have compromised, and fatally. The author doesn’t confine himself to attacking welfarism; he also demonstrates the virtue and power of individualism, property, and competition. Richman shows that economic competition is nothing more or less than peaceful cooperation in a climate of freedom.
Author |
: Krista Comer |
Publisher |
: UNC Press Books |
Total Pages |
: 324 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0807848131 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780807848135 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Landscapes of the New West by : Krista Comer
In the early 1970s, empowered by the civil rights and women's movements, a new group of women writers began speaking to the American public. Their topic, broadly defined, was the postmodern American West. By the mid-1980s, their combined works made for a bona fide literary groundswell in both critical and commercial terms. However, as Krista Comer notes, despite the attentions of publishers, the media, and millions of readers, literary scholars have rarely addressed this movement or its writers. Too many critics, Comer argues, still enamored of western images that are both masculine and antimodern, have been slow to reckon with the emergence of a new, far more "feminine," postmodern, multiracial, and urban west. Here, she calls for a redesign of the field of western cultural studies, one that engages issues of gender and race and is more self-conscious about space itself_especially that cherished symbol of western "authenticity," open landscape. Surveying works by Joan Didion, Wanda Coleman, Maxine Hong Kingston, Leslie Marmon Silko, Barbara Kingsolver, Pam Houston, Louise Erdrich, Sandra Cisneros, and Mary Clearman Blew, Comer shows how these and other contemporary women writers have mapped new geographical imaginations upon the cultural and social spaces of today's American West.