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Free labor : workfare and the contested language of neoliberalism / John Krinsky.
De Gruyter University of Chicago Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Krinsky, John.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Welfare recipients--Employment--New York (State)--New York.
- Welfare recipients.
- Welfare rights movement--New York (State)--New York.
- Welfare rights movement.
- Employee rights--New York (State)--New York.
- Employee rights.
- Neoliberalism.
- New York (N.Y.)--Social policy.
- New York (N.Y.).
- New York (N.Y.)--Politics and government--1951-.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (356 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- One of former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's proudest accomplishments is his expansion of the Work Experience Program, which uses welfare recipients to do routine work once done by unionized city workers. The fact that WEP workers are denied the legal status of employees and make far less money and enjoy fewer rights than do city workers has sparked fierce opposition. For antipoverty activists, legal advocates, unions, and other critics of the program this double standard begs a troubling question: are workfare participants workers or welfare recipients? At times the fight over workfare unfolded as an argument over who had the authority to define these terms, and in Free Labor, John Krinsky focuses on changes in the language and organization of the political coalitions on either side of the debate. Krinsky's broadly interdisciplinary analysis draws from interviews, official documents, and media reports to pursue new directions in the study of the cultural and cognitive aspects of political activism. Free Labor will instigate a lively dialogue among students of culture, labor and social movements, welfare policy, and urban political economy.
- Contents:
- Free labor?
- The workfare contract in the workfare state
- The formation of a protest field
- In the trenches
- Mapping passages through the trenches
- Claims, cognitions, and contradictions
- The contested language of neoliberalism.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-310) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611957322
- 9781281957320
- 1281957321
- 9780226453675
- 0226453677
- OCLC:
- 476228415
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