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Informationen zum Autor Louise Simmons Klappentext Since the enactment of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, it has become clear that the issues associated with welfare are now inextricably woven into the problems of low-wage work. This volume analyzes poverty and welfare reform within a context of low-wage work and the contours of the labor market that welfare recipients are entering. Given the new welfare regime of time limits and work requirements, problems of welfare cannot be separated from problems of work, politics, organizing, and other questions of social and economic policy. Although there have been many volumes on welfare reform, the unique contribution of this volume is that it brings labor into the discussion and creates a bridge between the domains of labor and welfare. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction, Louise Simmons; Part I Working Poor and the Contours of Welfare Reform; Chapter 1 Discipline and Seduction, Frances Fox Piven; Chapter 2 The Mirage of Welfare Reform, Max B. Sawicky; Chapter 3 The Long Economic Downturn of the New Century, Boushey Heather, Cherry Robert; Part II Workers and Workforce Issues; Chapter 4 A Report from the Front Lines of Welfare Reform, Fran Bernstein, Cecilia Perry; Chapter 5 Privatization, Labor-Management Relations, and Working Conditions for Lower-Skilled Employees, Immanuel Ness, Roland Zullo; Chapter 6 The Workforce Investment Act and the Labor Movement, Helena Worthen; Chapter 7 Revolving Doors, Chirag Mehta, Nik Theodore; Part III Labor and the Struggles over Social Welfare and Work; Chapter 8 Evaluating the Living-Wage Strategy, David J. Olson, Erich Steinman; Chapter 9 Labor-Welfare Linkages and the Imperative of Organizing Low-Wage Women Workers, Louise Simmons; Chapter 10 Urban Poverty, Social Welfare, and Human Rights, James Jennings;...
