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...
Основен автор: | Watkins-Hayes, Celeste. |
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Формат: | Електронна книга |
Език: | English |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2009.
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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.