Work and the welfare state : street-level organizations and workfare politics /
Evelyn Z. Brodkin and Gregory Marston, editors.
- Washington : Georgetown University Press, (c)2013.
- 1 online resource (ix, 324 pages)
- Public Management and Change series .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Preface / Introduction -- Work and the welfare state / Street-level organizations and the welfare state / What's at issue: politics, policies, and jobs -- The American welfare state : two narratives / The policies of workfare : at the boundaries between work and the welfare state / Double jeopardy : the misfit between welfare-to-work requirements and job realities / Governance and management : workfare's "second track" -- Triple activation : introducing welfare-to-work into dutch social assistance / Active labor market reform in denmark : the role of governance in policy change / Performance management as a disciplinary regime : street-level organizations in a neoliberal era of poverty governance / Street-level organizations and the practices of workfare -- Commodification, inclusion, or what? : workfare in everyday organizational life / Race, respect, and red tape : inside the black box of racially representative bureaucracies / Good intentions and institutional blindness : migrant populations and the implementation of German activation policy / Front-line workers as intermediaries : the changing landscape of disability and employment services in Australia / Administrative justice : challenging workfare practices -- Conditionality, sanctions, and the weakness of redress mechanisms in the British "new deal" / Redress and accountability in U.S. welfare agencies / Conclusion -- Work and the welfare state reconsidered : reflections on past practices and future prospects / References -- About the contributors. Evelyn Z. Brodkin and Gregory Marston -- Evelyn Z. Brodkin -- Evelyn Z. Brodkin -- Michael Lipsky -- Evelyn Z. Brodkin and Flemming Larsen -- Susan Lambert and Julia Henly -- Rik van Berkel -- Flemming Larsen -- Joe Soss, Sanford Schram, and Richard Fording -- Evelyn Z. Brodkin -- Celeste Watkins-Hayes -- Martin Brussig and Matthias Knuth -- Gregory Marston -- Michael Adler -- Vicki Lens -- Evelyn Z. Brodkin --
"Work and the Welfare State places street-level organizations at the analytic center of welfare-state politics, policy, and management. This volume offers a critical examination of efforts to change the welfare state to a workfare state by looking at on-the-ground issues in six countries: the US, UK, Australia, Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands. An international group of scholars contribute organizational studies that shed new light on old debates about policies of workfare and activation. Peeling back the political rhetoric and technical policy jargon, these studies investigate what really goes on in the name of workfare and activation policies and what that means for the poor, unemployed, and marginalized populations subject to these policies. By adopting a street-level approach to welfare state research, Work and the Welfare State reveals the critical, yet largely hidden, role of governance and management reforms in the evolution of the global workfare project. It shows how these reforms have altered organizational arrangements and practices to emphasize workfare's harsher regulatory features and undermine its potentially enabling ones. As a major contribution to expanding the conceptualization of how organizations matter to policy and political transformation, this book will be of special interest to all public management and public policy scholars and students."--Publisher's description.
9781626160019
Social policy. Welfare state. Welfare recipients--Employment.