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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Workfare"”.
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Workfare and the Family Support Act of 1988
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1990.
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Architecture as an Apparatus of Governance: (British) Architecture from the Welfare State to the State of Neoliberal Workfare
… transition from the welfare state to a state of workfare, where social rights are remodeled into personal responsibilities and objects of private enterprises. The thesis presents the transformations in the production of the built environment and its re-commodification. It argues that it was …
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Workfare and the Great Recession: Socioeconomic Outcomes among Black, White, and Hispanic Mothers in the Era of Work-First Welfare
With the introduction of welfare reform in 1996 – the culmination of Bill Clinton's campaign promise to 'end welfare as we know it' – means-tested cash assistance became conditional upon participation in the labor market. The current welfare program Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) is …
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Aktiveringspolitikens Janusansikte : En studie av differentiering, inklusion och marginalisering
… the last decade with the shift from welfare to workfare or activation policies. Some researchers claim that, for those excluded from the labour force, activation policies are the only way to inclusion in the labour market. Other researchers claim that only a universal welfare state can lead to …
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The impact of instrumentalism on British counselling and psychotherapy
… payments, (including the use of therapy as workfare), and the recasting of therapy knowledge within an economistic perspective. My informants include: senior therapy managers and training course directors within counselling and psychotherapy organisations who were collectively engaged in the …
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Child Care on the Cheap: Welfare Reform and the Social Organization of Child Care Work in New York City
… of poor single mothers were pushed into workfare jobs and the lower reaches of the labour market, the question of Who will care for their children? was thrust to the forefront of New York politics. In response to the crisis, the administration of Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani channelled …
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"Too Poor to Eat": A Socio-Political History of Food Stamps in the United States, 1964-1996
… status. The resulting policies — like strict workfare requirements — punished those people trapped in a cycle of poverty that stemmed not from their individual behavior, but from systematic economic, political, and social inequalities. Despite poor people identifying themselves as workers, …
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Shifting Technologies: Neoliberalization of the Welfare State in South Korea, 1997--2001
… has successfully incorporated a post-welfare or workfare state not long after having established the first long-term planned welfare state based on a social norm that poses family as the primary institution responsible for individual well being. Neoliberal emergency governance in South Korea …
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Workforce Transition Systems and Job Quality in Times of Occupational Structural Change: the Case of Displaced Manufacturing Workers in 21st Century Germany and the United States.
… time, especially through visible convergence on ‘workfare’ policies. However, in other realms, both countries have always been more similar than perceived in the established literature, lending support to the continuing dissimilarity argument. The thesis demonstrates that legacies of a vast …
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The employment requirements of disabled persons : a study of the development of state supported employment provision.
… of what has been described as a 'Schumpeterian Workfare State' (Jessop, 1992,1994), ensured that the ES, Disability Service, faced a need for radical reform. It is the framework and conception of this revised approach, to disabled persons labour-market involvement, that constitutes the basis of …
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Vorbild USA? : das amerikanische Beschäftigungswachstum und einige Konsequenzen für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland
… In diesem Abschnitt wird das Kernstück des „workfare-state“ der EITC (Earned Income Tax Credit) vorgestellt, aber auch die vermeintlich „weicheren Faktoren“ wie Bildungsressourcen und Nachhaltigkeitsstruktur des Wachstum erörtert. <br>Dabei wird nicht vergessen, die relative Erfolgsgeschichte …
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Everyday landscapes of immgrant integration in post-socialist Berlin: integration projects, othering and meanings of work.
… of otherwise unemployed residents through workfare programs. While such engagements do tend to increase empathy and more positive attitudes of local residents towards individual Aussiedler, I have cautioned against overoptimistic expectations for increased contact to also bring about …
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"HILFE ZUR ARBEIT" nach dem Bundessozialhilfegesetz - eine wirkliche Chance oder wirklich nur eine Chance ?
Die Dissertation beschäftigt sich mit dem Thema "Hilfe zur Arbeit" nach dem BSHG. Grundsätzlich zielen alle mit Hilfe zur Arbeit im Zusammenhang stehenden Paragraphen des BSHG auf (Re-)Integration der Hilfeempfänger in den ersten Arbeitsmarkt und die Aktivierung der Selbsthilfekräfte. …