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This book offers Ireland's introduction of a welfare-to-work market as a case study that speaks to wider international debates in social and public policy about the role of market governance in intensifying the turn towards more regulatory and conditional welfare models on the ground.

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Discusses the conservative ideological and political attack on welfare in the United States.Families on welfare in the United States are the target of much public indignation from not only the general public but also political figures and the very workers whose job it is to help the poor. The question is, What explains this animus and, more specifically, the failure of the United States to prioritize a sufficient social wage for poor families outside of labor markets? The New Welfare Consensus offers a comprehensive look at welfare in the United States and how it has evolved in the last few decades. Darren Barany examines the origins of American antiwelfarism and traces how, over time, fundamentally conservative ideas became the dominant way of thinking about the welfare state, work, family, and personal responsibility, resulting in a paternalistic and stingy system of welfare programs.

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The 1996 Welfare Reform Act promised to end welfare as we knew it. In Selling Welfare Reform, Frank Ridzi uses rich ethnographic detail to examine how new welfare-to-work policies, time limits, and citizenship documentation radically changed welfare, revealing what really goes on at the front lines of the reformed welfare system. Selling Welfare Reform chronicles how entrepreneurial efforts ranging from front-line caseworkers to high-level administrators set the pace for restructuring a resistant bureaucracy. At the heart of this remarkable institutional transformation is a market-centered approach to human services that re-framed the definition of success to include diversion from the present system, de-emphasis of legal protections and behavioral conditioning of poor parents to accommodate employers. Ridzi draws a compelling portrait of how welfare staff and their clients negotiate the complexities of the low wage labor market in an age of global competition, exposing the realities of how the new "common sense" of poverty is affecting the lives of poor and vulnerable Americans.

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Die individuelle Möglichkeit, Notwendigkeit sowie Art und Weise, die eigene Arbeitskraft zur Existenzsicherung zu verkaufen, werden von staatlicher Sozialpolitik geformt. Neu an einer Workfare-Politik ist nicht, dass Einzelne ihre Arbeitskraft verkaufen (müssen). Neu an Workfare sind vielmehr die Rahmenbedingungen, die mit sozialpolitischen Maßnahmen gesetzt werden. Anhand der Entwicklung der Mindestsicherung zeichnet das Buch die Ursprünge, Ansätze und Ausdehnung der Workfare-Logik in der deutschen Sozialhilfe von 1962 bis zu deren voller Blüte im SGB II alias Hartz-IV-Gesetz nach. »Brütts Untersuchung [...] gibt eine Reihe von wichtigen theoretischen und empirischen Hinweisen, was an armuts-, ordnungs- und arbeitsmarktpolitischen Zusammenhängen und Entwicklungen noch zu berücksichtigen wäre, wenn es um eine angemessene Einordnung der Hartz IV-Reform und ihrer Folgen geht.« Britta Grell, Politische Vierteljahresschrift, 53/2 (2012) »Brütt setzt Maßstäbe für eine politiktheoretisch fundierte Analyse von Sozial- und speziell Arbeitsmarktpolitik.« Thomas Mirbach, www.pw-portal.de, 27.02.2012 »Es ist Brütts Verdienst, dass den emotionalen und bisweilen populistischen Argumenten für oder wider ›Hartz IV‹ erstmalig mit rational stichhaltigen und empirisch nachprüfbaren Antworten begegnet werden kann.« Viktoria Kalass, Archiv für Sozialgeschichte, 19.01.2012 »Wer tiefer in die Problematik staatlicher Mindestversorgung eindringen möchte, wird in der Darstellung einige Ansatzpunkte finden.« Matthias Willing, H-Soz-u-Kult, 17.11.2011 Besprochen in: Forum Wissenschaft, 4 (2011), Florian Grams Volkssolidarität Newsletter, 7 (2011) arranca!, 44 (2011) Das Argument, 296 (2012), Katrin Mohr Vierteljahresschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte, 99/4 (2012), Florian Tennstedt

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