Title Free labor : workfare and the contested language of neoliberalism / John Krinsky

Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 333 pages) : illustrations Contents 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 Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-310) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Welfare recipients -- Employment -- New York (State) -- New York Welfare rights movement -- New York (State) -- New York Employee rights -- New York (State) -- New York Neoliberalism. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Poverty & Homelessness. Employee rights Neoliberalism Politics and government Social policy Welfare recipients -- Employment Welfare rights movement SUBJECT New York (N.Y.) -- Social policy New York (N.Y.) -- Politics and government -- 1951- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091433 Subject New York (State) -- New York Form Electronic book LC no. 2007015186 ISBN 9780226453675 0226453677 1281957321 9781281957320 9786611957322 6611957324

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