10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WORKFARE»
Discover the use of
workfare in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
workfare and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Workfare: Why Good Social Policy Ideas Go Bad
Quaid delves into the definition and history of workfare, and then continues with a critical and comparative analysis of workfare programs in six jurisdictions: California, Wisconsin, New York, Alberta, Ontario, and New Brunswick.
It also covers attempts to develop workfare states in Canada and Britain.
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Beyond the
Workfare State: Labour Markets, Equalities and ...
Explores equality, discrimination and human rights in relation to employability and 'welfare-to-work' policies bringing together a range of illustrative studies that gives voice to a variety of potentially marginalised groups.
Mick Carpenter, Belinda Freda, Stuart Speeden, 2007
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Military
Workfare: The Soldier and Social Citizenship in Canada
Military Workfare draws on five decades of restricted archival material and critical theories on war and politics to examine how a military model of work, discipline, domestic space, and the social self has redefined citizenship in the wake ...
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Free Labor:
Workfare and the Contested Language of Neoliberalism
One of former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s proudest accomplishments is his expansion of the Work Experience Program, which uses welfare recipients to do routine work once done by unionized city workers.
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From Welfare to
Workfare: The Unintended Consequences of ...
This book locates the roots of the 1996 welfare reform many decades in the past, arguing that women, work, and welfare were intertwined concerns of the liberal welfare state beginning just after World War II. It examines the reform of Aid ...
Jennifer Mittelstadt, 2006
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Workfare: Ideology for a New Under-Class
In addition to the myths, this book explores the reality of workfare, examining programs from across Canada, and comparing the experience in the United States.
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Welfare Reform in East Asia: Towards
Workfare
This book provides a comprehensive overview of how social welfare in handled in leading East Asian countries, analysing current trends, explaining the social and political background driving reform, describing new programmes and assessing ...
Chak Kwan Chan, Kinglun Ngok, 2012
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Social Citizenship and
Workfare in the United States and ...
This book compares workfare policies in the United States and Western Europe that are aimed at the 'workless' population.
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Living on the Edge in Suburbia: From Welfare to
Workfare
Many of these stories show that the need for welfare over time extends well beyond the federal government's five-year lifetime limit on welfare.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WORKFARE»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
workfare is used in the context of the following news items.
Unemployed workers network occupy office of Scotland's leading …
Workfare refers to unemployed people having to work for free in order to remain on jobseekers allowance. If they refuse to they can get sanctioned or lose their ... «CommonSpace, Jul 15»
Meersbrook B&M Bargains Workfare Protest #BandMDayofAction
There was a protest outside B&M Bargains on Chesterfield Road, Meersbrook, Sheffield on 27th June 2015 as part of the National Day of Action organised by ... «Indymedia UK, Jun 15»
Charities back out after 'bullying' over workfare volunteers
Glasgow, the Caring City is one of several voluntary organisations to have taken part in the Department for Work and Pensions' Workfare scheme, which ... «Herald Scotland, May 15»
Workfare should be a goal for both parties: Editorial
By touting a renewed dedication to workfare, Rosenberg signaled a changing mood in Boston. He accurately described Massachusetts as a state that once ... «MassLive.com, Feb 15»
Welfare-to-work isn't working
“Success of the [workfare] program is dependent on getting the private sector to participate,” said Chieppo, who coauthored the welfare report with Gregory W. «Boston Globe, Jan 15»
Failure of government workfare scheme revealed
The failure of a trailblazing government workfare scheme has been revealed by two damning reports slipped out by the Department of Work and Pensions at the ... «Politics.co.uk, Dec 14»
Anger as workfare fathers denied paternity leave
Whiteford said: “The sanctioning of a new parent's benefits who is in a workfare programme threatens to be hugely detrimental to vulnerable families and is ... «Scotsman, Nov 14»
WORKFARE – UNFAIR?
Councils are not required to participate in such programmes, commonly known as 'workfare' schemes, and many Scottish councils have chosen not to. «Dunoon Observer and Argyllshire Standard, Nov 14»
Online protest works: workfare firm pulls out after Twitter storm
When activists discovered last week that Byteback, a computer repair company, was involved in the government's workfare scheme, they descended to Twitter, ... «Left Foot Forward, Jul 14»
Councils and charities to boycott workfare programme
Around 350 charity organisations have signed up to boycott the community work placement part of the government's workfare programme, including 13 councils ... «Inside Housing, Jun 14»
