Format:
1 Online-Ressource (320 Seiten)
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ISBN:
9781478022688
Content:
Introduction: Signs Taken for Work -- . The Pensioner's Claim -- The Beggar's Case -- The Work of the Image -- Institutional Rhythms -- Coda: Remaking Reciprocity
Content:
"Work Requirements reframes the history of work-based social welfare practice as a representational project tasked with shoring up the inherent meaningfulness of work, examining what Todd Carmody calls the "print culture of social welfare" to show how work became an indicator of social deservingness over the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Prior to the emergence of the formal US welfare state, textual projects-from documentary photographs to insurance claims-contributed to the idea that individuals must be engaged in work to deserve social welfare. Progressive charity reformers and advocates of Black industrial education pushed for social welfare reforms to make people with disabilities, poor people, people of color, and incarcerated people into wage-earning citizens. Carmody shows how the bootstrap narrative, Taylorist studies of labor, and nineteenth-century ideas of race and disability fed into a specific ideology about labor-particularly, that someone's willingness to work could be scientifically measured and systematically evaluated-that continues to shape US welfare policy today."
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781478018070
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781478015444
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Carmody, Todd, 1979 - Work requirements Durham : Duke University Press, 2022 ISBN 9781478018070
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781478015444
Language:
English
