Work requirements race, disability, and the print culture of social welfare

"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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Carmody, Todd
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham Duke University Press 2022, 2022
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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
  • Includes bibliographical references and index