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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828240203321

Autore

Schram Sanford

Titolo

Welfare discipline : discourse, governance, and globalization / / Sanford F. Schram

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2006

ISBN

1-281-09366-1

9786611093662

1-59213-778-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (206 p.)

Disciplina

361.6/1

361.61

361.680973

Soggetti

Public welfare

Social policy

Public welfare - United States

Public welfare - Europe

Globalization - Social aspects

Discourse analysis

United States Social policy 1993-

Europe Social policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Truth of Globalization Discourse: A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy; 2 Reversed Polarities: The Incomplete Americanizationof European Welfare Policy; 3 Truth Is a Woman: Care as the Real Absence in the Post-Industrial Welfare State; 4 Welfare as Racemaking: Contextualizing Racial Disparitiesin Welfare Reform; 5 Recommodified Discourse: The Limits of the Asset-BuildingApproach to Fighting Poverty; 6 Deconstructing Dependency: Heading Toward a Counter-Discourse; 7 Compassionate Liberalism: Harm Reduction as a Postmodern Ethicfor the Welfare State; Index

About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

For the past decade, political scientist Sanford Schram has led the



academic effort to understand how Americans and their political officials talk about poverty and welfare and what impact that discourse has on policy and on the global society. In Welfare Discipline, Schram argues that it is time to take stock of the new forms of welfare and to develop even better methods to understand them. He argues for a more contextualized approach to examining welfare policy, from the use of the idea of globalization to justify cutbacks, to the increasing employment of U.S. policy disc