Welfare, the working poor, and labor / / edited by Louise Simmons

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (193 p.)
• Disciplina: 331.5
• Soggetto topico: Working poor - United States; Working poor - Government policy - United States; Labor policy - United States; Public welfare - United States
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: SimmonsLouise B. <1949->
• Note generali: First published 2004 by M.E. Sharpe.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover ""; ""Half Title ""; ""Title Page ""; ""Copyright Page ""; ""Dedication""; ""Table of Contents ""; ""Tables and Figures ""; ""Sources and Credits ""; ""Acknowledgments ""; ""Introduction ""; ""I. Working Poor and the Contours of Welfare Reform "" ; ""1. Discipline and Seduction: The Campaign to Regulate American Workers """"2. The Mirage of Welfare Reform ""; ""3. The Long Economic Downturn of the New Century ""; ""II. Workers and Workforce Issues ""; ""4. A Report from the Front Lines of Welfare Reform "" ; ""5. Privatization, Labor-Management Relations, and Working Conditions for Lower-Skilled Employees """"6. The Workforce Investment Act and the Labor Movement ""; ""7. Revolving Doors: Temp Agencies as Accelerators of Churning in Low-Wage Labor Markets "" ; ""III. Labor and the Struggles over Social Welfare and Work """"8. Evaluating the Living-Wage Strategy: Prospects, Problems, and Possibilities ""; ""9. Labor-Welfare Linkages and the Imperative of Organizing Low-Wage Women Workers ""; ""10. Urban Poverty, Social Welfare, and Human Rights "" ; ""About the Editor and Contributors """"Index ""
• Titolo autorizzato: Welfare, the working poor, and labor
• ISBN: 1-315-69826-9; 1-317-45232-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910460880503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II