Workfare : Ideology for a New Under-class / Eric Shragge.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shragge, Eric, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Welfare recipients--Employment--Canada.

Welfare recipients.

Welfare recipients--Employment--United States.

Public welfare--Canada.

Public welfare.

Public welfare--United States.

Canada--Social policy.

Canada.

United States--Social policy--1993-.

United States.

Physical Description:

181 p. ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Workfare: Ideology for a New Under-Class reveals the double standards of Neo-Liberal "newspeak." The federal government spends almost the same amount of money on tax exemptions for RRSP deductions as federal and provincial governments combined spend on welfare. But, no one asks if people receiving RRSP deductions are "truly needy." In addition to the myths, this book explores the reality of workfare, examining programs from across Canada, and comparing the experience in the United States. Workfare is central to the tenets of the so-called common sense revolution. The contributors show that, in fact, workfare measures have not been effective in getting people back to work, especially in the long term. Governments continue to implement workfare programs even when it is clear that they have not, and will not, achieve their stated ends. The book shows how workfare masks a punitive ideology particular to the post-Fordist, neo-Liberal state.

Contents:

""The Real Story on Workfare Programs Lay-offs for Existing Workers while Welfare Recipients do the Jobs as Cheap Labour""; ""Resisting Workfare Before it Happens""; ""Resisting Workfare at the United Nations""; ""Resisting Workfare""; ""Bibliography""

""Alternative Explanations for Welfare Utilization""""Empirical Evidence of Work Program Effectiveness""; ""Caseload Reductions""; ""Participation Rates""; ""Work Effort""; ""Income and Hours of Work""; ""Cost-effectiveness Studies""; ""Program Implementation""; ""Conclusions""; ""Notes""; ""Resisting Workfare""; ""Resisting the Language that Justifies Workfare""; ""Newspeak Lives""; ""The End Legislated Poverty (ELP) Dictionary of Social Policy Newspeak""; ""Resisting National Legislation that Allows Workfare""; ""Ignorance Prevails""; ""Getting Workers to Resist Workfare""

""'It's Not a Walk in the Park': Workfare in Ontario""""Welfare Reform Under the Liberals and NDP""; ""The 1995 Election""; ""The Morning After""; ""The Emerging Confusion""; ""The Announcement""; ""Some Comments""; ""In Short""; ""Notes""; ""Alberta and the Workfare Myth""; ""The Myth Makers""; ""The Carrots""; ""The Sticks""; ""The Work Imperative""; ""Dramatic Success?""; ""Personal Stories""; ""Back to the Future?""; ""Notes""; ""Workfare in the U.S.: Empirically-Tested Programs or Ideological Quagmire?""; ""Ideological Origins of Work Programs in the U.S.""

""The Political Context Of NB Works""""Manufacturing and Marketing the Image of NB Works""; ""Political Functions Of NB Works""; ""Summary and Conclusions""; ""Workfare in Quebec""; ""The Background to Workfare In Quebec""; ""The Crisis of Social Assistance in the 1980s""; ""Preparing the Ground""; ""The Reform""; ""Evaluation of the Workfare Programs""; ""Rattrapage Scolaire""; ""The EXTRA Program""; ""The PAIE Program""; ""Workfare and Community Organizations""; ""The NDG-APG""; ""Resto-Pop""; ""Recent Developments""; ""Summary of Workfare and Community Organizations""; ""Conclusion""

""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Workfare: An Overview""; ""Definitions and General Discussion""; ""Historical Perspectives""; ""Early History: The Roots of Welfare""; ""The Universal Welfare State: 1945-1980""; ""Crisis and Redefinition""; ""Workfare as Social Struggle""; ""A Short Conclusion: Debates on Income and Work""; ""The Politics Of Workfare: NB Works""; ""NB Works as a Social Program""; ""Welfare Reform""; ""Overview of NB Works""; ""Efficacy of NB Works""; ""Participants' Views of the Program""; ""The NB Works Program as Ideology and Political Opportunism""

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

ISBN:

1-4426-0311-9

OCLC:

1114783257