Author: Nancy Ellen Rose
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780813522326
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Can the welfare system in the United States accord people dignity? That question is often left out of the current debates over welfare and workfare. In this provocative book, Nancy Rose argues that the United States has been successful in the past––notably during the New Deal and in the 1970s––at shaping programs that gave people “fair work.” However, as Rose documents, those innovative job creation programs were voluntary and were mainly directed at putting men back to work. Women on welfare, and especially women of color, continue to be forced into a very different kind of program: mandatory, punitive, and demeaning. Such workfare programs are set up for failure. They rarely train women for jobs with futures, they ignore the needs of the women's families, and they do not pay an honest wage. They perpetuate poverty rather than prevent it. Rose uses the history of U.S. job creation programs to show alternatives to mandatory workfare. Any effort to redesign welfare in America needs to pay close attention to the lessons drawn from this perceptive analysis of the history of women, welfare, and work. This is an indispensable book for students, scholars, policymakers, politicians, and activists––for everyone who knows the system is broken and wants to fix it.
Workfare Or Fair Work
Author: Nancy Ellen Rose
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780813522333
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Can the welfare system in the United States accord people dignity? That question is often left out of the current debates over welfare and workfare. In this provocative book, Nancy Rose argues that the United States has been successful in the past--notably during the New Deal and in the 1970s--at shaping programs that gave people "fair work." However, as Rose documents, those innovative job creation programs were voluntary and were mainly directed at putting men back to work. Women on welfare, and especially women of color, continue to be forced into a very different kind of program: mandatory, punitive, and demeaning. Such workfare programs are set up for failure. They rarely train women for jobs with futures, they ignore the needs of the women's families, and they do not pay an honest wage. They perpetuate poverty rather than prevent it. Rose uses the history of U.S. job creation programs to show alternatives to mandatory workfare. Any effort to redesign welfare in America needs to pay close attention to the lessons drawn from this perceptive analysis of the history of women, welfare, and work. This is an indispensable book for students, scholars, policymakers, politicians, and activists--for everyone who knows the system is broken and wants to fix it.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780813522333
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Can the welfare system in the United States accord people dignity? That question is often left out of the current debates over welfare and workfare. In this provocative book, Nancy Rose argues that the United States has been successful in the past--notably during the New Deal and in the 1970s--at shaping programs that gave people "fair work." However, as Rose documents, those innovative job creation programs were voluntary and were mainly directed at putting men back to work. Women on welfare, and especially women of color, continue to be forced into a very different kind of program: mandatory, punitive, and demeaning. Such workfare programs are set up for failure. They rarely train women for jobs with futures, they ignore the needs of the women's families, and they do not pay an honest wage. They perpetuate poverty rather than prevent it. Rose uses the history of U.S. job creation programs to show alternatives to mandatory workfare. Any effort to redesign welfare in America needs to pay close attention to the lessons drawn from this perceptive analysis of the history of women, welfare, and work. This is an indispensable book for students, scholars, policymakers, politicians, and activists--for everyone who knows the system is broken and wants to fix it.
Hearings on Welfare Reform: H.R. 30, Fair Work Opportunities Act of 1987 and H.R. 1720, Family Welfare Reform Act of 1987
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
The Fair Labor Standards Act
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce. Subcommittee on Workforce Protections
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
How Fair is Workfare?
Author: Maria Agnes R. Quisumbing
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 67
Book Description
Men's and women's participation in FFW and self-employment responds differently to household and community shocks. After controlling for selection in which gender plays an important role, gender disadvantages in the wage labor market and FFW are insignificant. Returns to schooling and height are consistently positive in both wage labor and FFW, suggesting returns to human capital investment, even in the low-skill labor markets of rural Ethiopia. Program characteristics significantly affect participation, with differential effects on men and women. Participation, days worked, wages, and earnings vary according to the type of project. Relative to infrastructure projects, water, social services, and other projects decrease participation probabilities. Distance has a strong negative effect on women's participation relative to men's"--Abstract
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 67
Book Description
Men's and women's participation in FFW and self-employment responds differently to household and community shocks. After controlling for selection in which gender plays an important role, gender disadvantages in the wage labor market and FFW are insignificant. Returns to schooling and height are consistently positive in both wage labor and FFW, suggesting returns to human capital investment, even in the low-skill labor markets of rural Ethiopia. Program characteristics significantly affect participation, with differential effects on men and women. Participation, days worked, wages, and earnings vary according to the type of project. Relative to infrastructure projects, water, social services, and other projects decrease participation probabilities. Distance has a strong negative effect on women's participation relative to men's"--Abstract
Long-range Public Investment
Author: Robert D. Leighninger
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781570036637
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Long-Range Public Investment: The Forgotten Legacy of the New Deal is augmented by fifty-eight photographs.
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781570036637
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Long-Range Public Investment: The Forgotten Legacy of the New Deal is augmented by fifty-eight photographs.
Fair work not workfare
Author: New Zealand Labour Party
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Poor Worker's Unions
Author: Vanessa Tait
Publisher: Haymarket Books
ISBN: 1608465209
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Illuminates key connections between the social justice movements of the last fifty years and today's most innovative labor organizing.
Publisher: Haymarket Books
ISBN: 1608465209
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Illuminates key connections between the social justice movements of the last fifty years and today's most innovative labor organizing.
The Dynamics of Social Welfare Policy
Author: Joel Blau
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195109689
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Preface and AcknowledgmentsPart I: Introducing Social Welfare Policy 1. Introduction: Social Problems, Social Policy, and the Triggers of Social Change2. Definitions and Functions of Social Welfare Policy, Mimi AbramovitzPart II: The Policy Model 3. The Economy and Social Welfare4. The Politics of Social Welfare5. Ideological Perspectives and Conflicts, Mimi Abramovitz6. Social Movements and Social Changes, Mimi Abramovitz7. Social Welfare History in the United StatesPart III: Policy Analyses: Applying the Policy Model 8. Income Support: Programs and Policies9. Jobs and Job Training: Programs.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195109689
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Preface and AcknowledgmentsPart I: Introducing Social Welfare Policy 1. Introduction: Social Problems, Social Policy, and the Triggers of Social Change2. Definitions and Functions of Social Welfare Policy, Mimi AbramovitzPart II: The Policy Model 3. The Economy and Social Welfare4. The Politics of Social Welfare5. Ideological Perspectives and Conflicts, Mimi Abramovitz6. Social Movements and Social Changes, Mimi Abramovitz7. Social Welfare History in the United StatesPart III: Policy Analyses: Applying the Policy Model 8. Income Support: Programs and Policies9. Jobs and Job Training: Programs.
The Workfare State
Author: Eva Bertram
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812247078
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The Workfare State recounts the history of the evolving social contract for poor families from the New Deal to the present. Challenging conventional accounts, Eva Bertram argues that conservative Southern Democrats in the 1960s and 1970s led the way in developing the modern workfare state, well before Republican campaigns in the 1980s.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812247078
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The Workfare State recounts the history of the evolving social contract for poor families from the New Deal to the present. Challenging conventional accounts, Eva Bertram argues that conservative Southern Democrats in the 1960s and 1970s led the way in developing the modern workfare state, well before Republican campaigns in the 1980s.
Hearings on welfare reform
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description