LEADER 05081nam 2200805 a 450 001 9910172224503321 005 20211001022041.0 010 $a1-282-45823-X 010 $a9786612458231 010 $a1-4008-2264-5 010 $a1-4008-0755-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400822645 035 $a(CKB)111056486505714 035 $a(EBL)483507 035 $a(OCoLC)630535123 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000273868 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11954743 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000273868 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10323232 035 $a(PQKB)10751774 035 $a(OCoLC)228043183 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36067 035 $a(DE-B1597)446232 035 $a(OCoLC)979628860 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400822645 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL483507 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10035816 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL245823 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC483507 035 $a(PPN)265134242 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486505714 100 $a19980309d1998 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWork and welfare$b[electronic resource] /$fRobert M. Solow ; [comments by] Gertrude Himmelfarb ... [et al.] ; edited by Amy Gutmann 205 $aCore Textbook 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc1998 215 $a1 online resource (121 p.) 225 1 $aThe University Center for Human Values series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-691-05883-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tIntroduction /$rGutmann, Amy --$tPreface to the Lectures --$tLecture I: Guess Who Likes Workfare /$rSolow, Robert M. --$tLecture II: Guess Who Pays for Workfare /$rSolow, Robert M. --$tComment /$rLoury, Glenn C. --$tComment /$rLewis, Anthony --$tComment /$rRoemer, John E. --$tComment /$rHimmelfarb, Gertrude --$tResponse to Comments /$rSolow, Robert M. --$tContributors --$tIndex 330 $aThe Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Solow directs his attention here to one of today's most controversial social issues: how to get people off welfare and into jobs. With characteristic eloquence, wit, and rigor, Solow condemns the welfare reforms recently passed by Congress and President Clinton for confronting welfare recipients with an unworkable choice--finding work in the current labor market or losing benefits. He argues that the only practical and fair way to move recipients to work is, in contrast, through an ambitious plan to guarantee that every able-bodied citizen has access to a job. Solow contends that the demand implicit in the 1996 Welfare Reform Act for welfare recipients to find work in the existing labor market has two crucial flaws. First, the labor market would not easily make room for a huge influx of unskilled, inexperienced workers. Second, the normal market adjustment to that influx would drive down earnings for those already in low-wage jobs. Solow concludes that it is legitimate to want welfare recipients to work, but not to want them to live at a miserable standard or to benefit at the expense of the working poor, especially since children are often the first to suffer. Instead, he writes, we should create new demand for unskilled labor through public-service employment and incentives to the private sector--in effect, fair "workfare." Solow presents widely ignored evidence that recipients themselves would welcome the chance to work. But he also points out that practical, morally defensible workfare would be extremely expensive--a problem that politicians who support the idea blithely fail to admit. Throughout, Solow places debate over welfare reform in the context of a struggle to balance competing social values, in particular self-reliance and altruism. The book originated in Solow's 1997 Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Princeton University. It includes reactions from the distinguished scholars Gertrude Himmelfarb, Anthony Lewis, Glenn Loury, and John Roemer, who expand on and take issue with Solow's arguments. Work and Welfare is a powerful contribution to debate about welfare reform and a penetrating look at the values that shape its course. 410 0$aUniversity Center for Human Values series. 606 $aPublic welfare$zUnited States 606 $aWelfare recipients$xEmployment$zUnited States 606 $aPoor$xEmployment$zUnited States 606 $aUnskilled labor$zUnited States 606 $aWages$zUnited States 615 0$aPublic welfare 615 0$aWelfare recipients$xEmployment 615 0$aPoor$xEmployment 615 0$aUnskilled labor 615 0$aWages 676 $a362.5/0973 686 $aQV 000$2rvk 700 $aSolow$b Robert M$077790 701 $aHimmelfarb$b Gertrude$0134074 701 $aGutmann$b Amy$0129214 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910172224503321 996 $aWork and welfare$92271358 997 $aUNINA