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The bureaucrat and the poor : encounters in French welfare offices / Vincent Dubois.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dubois, Vincent, 1966-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public welfare--France.
- Public welfare.
- Human services.
- France.
- Human services--France.
- France--Social policy--1995-.
- Social policy.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 206 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2010.
- Contents:
- The public
- Organising face-to-face encounters
- An unequal relationship
- Administrative exchanges, normative exchanges
- The post and the role of the agent
- On becoming an agent
- The agents as individuals
- Facing misery
- Managing social inequality
- The agent's separate identities
- Flaws in the system
- Putting up with the institution
- The return of the repressed individual
- Adapting the institution.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781409402893
- 1409402894
- 9781409402909
- 1409402908
- OCLC:
- 609101145
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