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10%OFFFrank Ridzi - Selling Welfare Reform - 9780814775943 - V9780814775943
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Selling Welfare Reform

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Description for Selling Welfare Reform Paperback. Draws a portrait of how welfare staff and their clients negotiate the complexities of the low wage labor market in an age of global competition. This title chronicles how entrepreneurial efforts ranging from front-line caseworkers to high-level administrators set the pace for restructuring a resistant bureaucracy. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JKS. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.

The 1996 Welfare Reform Act promised to end welfare as we knew it. In Selling Welfare Reform, Frank Ridzi uses rich ethnographic detail to examine how new welfare-to-work policies, time limits, and citizenship documentation radically changed welfare, revealing what really goes on at the front lines of the reformed welfare system. Selling Welfare Reform chronicles how entrepreneurial efforts ranging from front-line caseworkers to high-level administrators set the pace for restructuring a resistant bureaucracy. At the heart of this remarkable institutional transformation is a market-centered approach to human services that re-framed the definition of success to include diversion from the present ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814775943
SKU
V9780814775943
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99-50

About Frank Ridzi
Frank Ridzi is Associate Professor of Sociology, Kauffman Entrepreneurship Professor, and founding Director of the Center for Urban and Regional Applied Research at Le Moyne College in Syracuse New York.

Reviews for Selling Welfare Reform
&8220;Ridzi provides a deeply grounded and richly detailed view of the many activities that have produced a new U.S. welfare regime. His focus on implementation gives fresh insight into the complex interplay of local and extra-local forces.
Marjorie DeVault,editor of People at Work &9220;In this fascinating study, Ridzi deftly explores how ‘work-first’ came to dominate welfare policy and how ... Read more

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