Free labor: workfare and the contested language of neoliberalism
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Main Author: Krinsky, John (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago University of Chicago Press 2007
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-310) and index
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
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 workfa
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xix, 333 p.)
ISBN:0226453677
9780226453675