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1025412
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b779782
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Krinsky, John.
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| Title & Author
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Free labor : : workfare and the contested language of neoliberalism /\ John Krinsky.
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| Publication Statement
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Chicago :: University of Chicago Press,, 2007.
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1 online resource (xix, 333 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0226453677
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: 1281957321
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: 6611957324
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: 9780226453675
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: 9781281957320
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: 9786611957322
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0226453650
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0226453669
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9780226453651
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9780226453668
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-310) and index.
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| Contents
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Free labor? -- The workfare contract in the workfare state -- The formation of a protest field -- In the trenches -- Mapping passages through the trenches -- Claims, cognitions, and contradictions -- The contested language of neoliberalism.
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One of former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani?s proudest accomplishments is his expansion of the Work Experience Program, which uses welfare recipients to do routine work once done by unionized city workers. The fact that WEP workers are denied the legal status of employees and make far less money and enjoy fewer rights than do city workers has sparked fierce opposition. For antipoverty activists, legal advocates, unions, and other critics of the program this double standard begs a troubling question: are workfare participants workers or welfare recipients?. At times the fight over workfa.
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Employee rights-- New York (State)-- New York.
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Neoliberalism.
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Welfare recipients-- Employment-- New York (State)-- New York.
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Welfare rights movement-- New York (State)-- New York.
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Employee rights.
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Neoliberalism.
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Politics and government
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Social policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Poverty Homelessness.
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Welfare recipients-- Employment.
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Welfare rights movement.
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New York (N.Y.), Politics and government, 1951-
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New York (N.Y.), Social policy.
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New York (State), New York.
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| Dewey Classification
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362.5/84097471
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HV99.N59K75 2007eb
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