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Record Nr.

UNINA9910647295403321

Autore

Carmody Todd <1979->

Titolo

Work requirements : race, disability, and the print culture of social welfare / / Todd Carmody

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2022

ISBN

1-4780-9283-1

1-4780-2268-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (329 pages) : illustrations

Classificazione

SOC029000SOC001000

Disciplina

361.973

Soggetti

Public welfare - United States - History

Welfare recipients - United States - History

Work - Social aspects - United States

African Americans - Social conditions

People with disabilities - United States - Social conditions

Minorities - United States - Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Signs Taken for Work -- . The Pensioner's Claim -- The Beggar's Case -- The Work of the Image -- Institutional Rhythms -- Coda: Remaking Reciprocity

Sommario/riassunto

"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."--