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Author:   Evelyn Z. Brodkin ,  Gregory Marston ,  Evelyn Z. Brodkin ,  Gregory Marston
Publisher:   Georgetown University Press
Imprint:   Georgetown University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.522kg
ISBN:  

9781626160002

ISBN 10:   1626160007
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   01 October 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Preface Part I: Introduction1. Work and the Welfare State Evelyn Z. Brodkin2. Street-Level Organizations and the Welfare StateEvelyn Z. Brodkin Part II: What's at Issue: Politics, Policies, and Jobs3. The American Welfare State: Two Narratives Michael Lipsky 4. The Policies of Workfare: At the Boundaries between Work and the Welfare State Evelyn Z. Brodkin and Flemming Larsen5. Double Jeopardy: The Misfit between Welfare-to-Work Requirements and Job Realities Susan Lambert and Julia HenlyPart III: Governance and Management: Workfare's ""Second Track"" 6. Triple Activation: Introducing Welfare-to-Work into Dutch Social AssistanceRik van Berkel7. Active Labor Market Reform in Denmark: The Role of Governance in Policy Change Flemming Larsen8. Performance Management as a Disciplinary Regime: Street-Level Organizations in a Neoliberal Era of Poverty GovernanceJoe Soss, Sanford Schram, and Richard Fording Part IV: Street-Level Organizations and the Practices of Workfare9. Commodification, Inclusion, or What? Workfare in Everyday Organizational LifeEvelyn Z. Brodkin 10. Race, Respect, and Red Tape: Inside the Black Box of Racially Representative Bureaucracies Celeste Watkins-Hayes 11. Good Intentions and Institutional Blindness: Migrant Populations and the Implementation of German Activation PolicyMartin Brussig and Matthias Knuth 12. Front-line Workers as Intermediaries: The Changing Landscape of Disability and Employment Services in AustraliaGregory Marston Part V: Administrative Justice: Challenging Workfare Practices13. Challenging Workfare Practices: Conditionality, Sanctions, and the Weakness of Redress Mechanisms in the British ""New Deal""Michael Adler14. Redress and Accountability in US Welfare AgenciesVicki Lens Part VI: Conclusion 15. Work and the Welfare State Reconsidered: Street-Level Organizations and the Global Workfare ProjectEvelyn Z. BrodkinReferences Contributors"

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The strength of Persuasion and Power is its exhaustive research, reflected in numerous vignettes and research that compellingly illustrate successful concepts, benefits, and failures of strategic communication. Scholars and strategic communicators alike will be impressed with Farewell's research and proposed solutions to enhance strategic communication. Persuasion and Power is a must-read for those with an interest in strategic communication. -- Military Review This book is the first to bring a street-level approach to international research on welfare state policy, politics, and management, offering a clear and coherent interpretation of how workfare-style policies are taking shape on the ground. -- Social Service Review This book is the first to bring a street-level approach to international research on welfare state policy, politics, and management, offering a clear and coherent interpretation of how workfare-style policies are taking shape on the ground. -- School of Social Service Administration Magazine, U of Chicago

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Evelyn Z. Brodkin is an associate professor at the University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration. She is the author of The False Promise of Administrative Reform. Brodkin has held visiting professorships in Australia, Denmark, France, and Mexico; received the Herbert Kaufman Award from APSA; and was named a Fellow of the Open Society Institute. Gregory Marston is a professor of social policy at the School of Public Health and Social Work, Queensland University of Technology in Australia.

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