Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce publication of a book that may be of interest to list members. "Work and the Welfare State: Street-Level Organizations and Workfare Politics," edited by Evelyn Z. Brodkin and Gregory Marston, places street-level organizations at the analytic center of welfare-state politics, policy, and management. This volume offers a critical examination of efforts to change the welfare state to a workfare state by looking at on-the-ground issues in six countries: the US, UK, Australia, Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands.
An international group of scholars contribute organizational studies that shed new light on old debates about policies of workfare and activation. Peeling back the political rhetoric and technical policy jargon, these studies investigate what really goes on in the name of workfare and activation policies and what that means for the poor, unemployed, and marginalized populations subject to these policies. By adopting a street-level approach to welfare state research, Work and the Welfare State reveals the critical, yet largely hidden, role of governance and management reforms in the evolution of the global workfare project. It shows how these reforms have altered organizational arrangements and practices to emphasize workfare's harsher regulatory features and undermine its potentially enabling ones.
- See more at: http://press.georgetown.edu/book/georgetown/work-and-welfare-state and http://www.djoef-forlag.dk/da/boeger/w/work-and-the-welfare-state
Table of Contents
Preface
Part I: Introduction
1. Work and the Welfare State
Evelyn Z. Brodkin
2. Street-Level Organizations and the Welfare State
Evelyn Z. Brodkin
Part II: What's at Issue: Politics, Policies, and Jobs
3. The American Welfare State: Two Narratives
Michael Lipsky
4. The Policies of Workfare: At the Boundaries between Work and the Welfare
State
Evelyn Z. Brodkin and Flemming Larsen
5. Double Jeopardy: The Misfit between Welfare-to-Work Requirements and Job
Realities
Susan Lambert and Julia Henly
Part III: Governance and Management: Workfare's "Second Track"
6. Triple Activation: Introducing Welfare-to-Work into Dutch Social Assistance
Rik van Berkel
7. Active Labor Market Reform in Denmark: The Role of Governance in Policy
Change
Flemming Larsen
8. Performance Management as a Disciplinary Regime: Street-Level Organizations
in a Neoliberal Era of Poverty Governance
Joe Soss, Sanford Schram, and Richard Fording
Part IV: Street-Level Organizations and the Practices of Workfare
9. Commodification, Inclusion, or What? Workfare in Everyday Organizational
Life
Evelyn Z. Brodkin
10. Race, Respect, and Red Tape: Inside the Black Box of Racially Representative
Bureaucracies
Celeste Watkins-Hayes
11. Good Intentions and Institutional Blindness: Migrant Populations and the Implementation of German Activation Policy
Martin Brussig and Matthias Knuth
12. Front-line Workers as Intermediaries: The Changing Landscape of Disability and Employment Services in Australia
Gregory Marston
Part V: Administrative Justice: Challenging Workfare Practices
13. Challenging Workfare Practices: Conditionality, Sanctions, and the Weakness of Redress Mechanisms in the British "New Deal"
Michael Adler
14. Redress and Accountability in US Welfare Agencies
Vicki Lens
Part VI: Conclusion
15. Work and the Welfare State Reconsidered: Street-Level Organizations and the Global Workfare Project
Evelyn Z. Brodkin
About the Editors:
Evelyn Z. Brodkin is an associate professor at the University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration. She is the author of The False Promise of Administrative Reform. Brodkin has held visiting professorships in Australia, Denmark, France, and Mexico; received the Herbert Kaufman Award from APSA; and was named a Fellow of the Open Society Institute.
Gregory Marston is a professor of social policy at the School of Public Health and Social Work, Queensland University of Technology in Australia.
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