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The new welfare bureaucrats : entanglements of race, class, and policy reform /

"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, T...

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Основен автор: Watkins-Hayes, Celeste.
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
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Подобни документи: Print version:: New welfare bureaucrats.
Съдържание:
  • Introduction: do street-level bureaucracies matter in a post-welfare era?
  • Situated bureaucrats: locating identity in catch-all bureaucracies
  • Not everyone has the same bag of tricks: identity discord, discretionary toolkits, and policymaking in a changing institution
  • Reinventing the street-level welfare bureaucrat?: the reformation of professional identities in postreform welfare offices
  • Am I my sister's keeper?: race, class, gender, and community in Staunton
  • Race, place, and politics: negotiating community and diversity in Fishertown
  • Conclusion: the crisis of identity in catch-all bureaucracies
  • Appendix A: professional identities in the making: a history of the profession of welfare casework
  • Appendix B: demographic data
  • Appendix C: methodology.