Work Requirements : Race, Disability, and the Print Culture of Social Welfare /

Work Requirements : Race, Disability, and the Print Culture of Social Welfare /

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"Work Requirements reframes the history of work-based social welfare practice as a representational project tasked with shoring up the inherent meaningfulness of work, examining what Todd Carmody calls the "print culture of social welfare" to show how work became an indicator of socia...

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Main Author: Carmody, Todd, 1979- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Work > Social aspects.
Welfare recipients.
Public welfare.
People with disabilities > Social conditions.
Minorities > Social conditions.
African Americans > Social conditions.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities.
Personnes handicapees > États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
Noirs americains > États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
Travail > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Aide sociale > Beneficiaires > États-Unis > Histoire.
Minorities > United States > Social conditions.
People with disabilities > United States > Social conditions.
African Americans > United States > Social conditions.
Work > Social aspects > United States.
Welfare recipients > United States > History.
Public welfare > United States > History.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Signs Taken for Work
  • . The Pensioner's Claim
  • The Beggar's Case
  • The Work of the Image
  • Institutional Rhythms
  • Coda: Remaking Reciprocity

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