As the recession worsens, more and more Americans must turn to welfare to make ends meet. Once inside the agency, the newly jobless will face a bureaucracy that has undergone massive change since the advent of welfare reform in 1996. A behind-the-scenes look at bureaucracy s human face, The New Welfare Bureaucrats is a compelling study of welfare officers and how they navigate the increasingly tangled political and emotional terrain of their jobs.Celeste Watkins-Hayes here reveals how welfare reform engendered a shift in focus for caseworkers from simply providing monetary aid to the much more complex process of helping recipients find work. Now both more intimately involved in their clients lives and wielding greater power over their well-being, welfare officers racial, class, and professional identities have become increasingly important factors in their work. Based on the author s extensive fieldwork in two very different communities in the northeast, The New Welfare Bureaucrats is a boon to anyone looking to understand the impact of the institutional and policy changes wrought by welfare reform as well as the subtle social dynamics that shape the way welfare is meted out at the individual level.
Celeste Watkins-Hayes
New Welfare Bureaucrats [PDF ebook]
Entanglements of Race, Class, and Policy Reform
New Welfare Bureaucrats [PDF ebook]
Entanglements of Race, Class, and Policy Reform
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Bahasa Inggris ● Format PDF ● ISBN 9780226874937 ● Penerbit University of Chicago Press ● Diterbitkan 2009 ● Diunduh 3 kali ● Mata uang EUR ● ID 5659826 ● Perlindungan salinan Adobe DRM
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