The New Welfare Bureaucrats: Entanglements of Race, Class, and Policy Reform

As the recession worsens, more and more Americans must turn to welfare to make ends meet. Once...
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Author: Celeste Watkins-Hayes
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Language: English
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The New Welfare Bureaucrats: Entanglements of Race, Class, and Policy Reform by Watkins-Hayes, Celeste

The New Welfare Bureaucrats: Entanglements of Race, Class, and Policy Reform

€82,39

The New Welfare Bureaucrats: Entanglements of Race, Class, and Policy Reform

€82,39
Author: Celeste Watkins-Hayes
Format: Paperback
Language: English

As the recession worsens, more and more Americans must turn to welfare to make ends meet. Once inside the agency, the newly jobless will face a bureaucracy that has undergone massive change since the advent of welfare reform in 1996. A behind-the-scenes look at bureaucracy's human face, The New Welfare Bureaucrats is a compelling study of welfare officers and how they navigate the increasingly tangled political and emotional terrain of their jobs.

Celeste Watkins-Hayes here reveals how welfare reform engendered a shift in focus for caseworkers from simply providing monetary aid to the much more complex process of helping recipients find work. Now both more intimately involved in their clients' lives and wielding greater power over their well-being, welfare officers' racial, class, and professional identities have become increasingly important factors in their work. Based on the author's extensive fieldwork in two very different communities in the northeast, The New Welfare Bureaucrats is a boon to anyone looking to understand the impact of the institutional and policy changes wrought by welfare reform as well as the subtle social dynamics that shape the way welfare is meted out at the individual level.



Author: Celeste Watkins-Hayes
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 07/01/2009
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780226874920


Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 09/18/2009 pg. 18
Choice 06/01/2010

About the Author
Celeste Watkins-Hayes is assistant professor of sociology and African American studies at Northwestern University.

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