Welfare, the Working Poor, and Labor - Simmons, Louise B. 1949- (Taylor and Francis, 2015)
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Tables and Figures; Sources and Credits; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I. Working Poor and the Contours of Welfare Reform; 1. Discipline and Seduction: The Campaign to Regulate American Workers; 2. The Mirage of Welfare Reform; 3. The Long Economic Downturn of the New Century; II. Workers and Workforce Issues; 4. A Report from the Front Lines of Welfare Reform; 5. Privatization, Labor-Management Relations, and Working Conditions for Lower-Skilled Employees; 6. The Workforce Investment Act and the Labor Movement
7. Revolving Doors: Temp Agencies as Accelerators of Churning in Low-Wage Labor MarketsIII. Labor and the Struggles over Social Welfare and Work; 8. Evaluating the Living-Wage Strategy: Prospects, Problems, and Possibilities; 9. Labor-Welfare Linkages and the Imperative of Organizing Low-Wage Women Workers; 10. Urban Poverty, Social Welfare, and Human Rights; About the Editor and Contributors; Index
This volume analyses poverty and welfare reform within a context of low-wage work and the contours of the labour market that welfare recipients are entering. It aims to bring labour into the discussion of welfare reform and creates a bridge between the domains of labour and welfare
Keywords: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations; Labor policy; Public welfare; Working poor; Working poor / Government policy; Politik; Wirtschaft; Working poor -- United States; Working poor -- Government policy -- United States; Labor policy -- United States; Public welfare -- United States; Sozialhilfe; Arbeitsmarktpolitik; USA; Aufsatzsammlung