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

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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.

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Description	1 online resource (xix, 333 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-310) and index.
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.
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Subject	Welfare recipients -- Employment -- New York (State) -- New York.
	Welfare recipients -- Employment.
	New York (State) -- New York.
	Welfare rights movement -- New York (State) -- New York.
	Welfare rights movement.
	Employee rights -- New York (State) -- New York.
	Employee rights.
	New York (N.Y.) -- Social policy.
	National Book Committee.
	Social policy.
	New York (N.Y.) -- Politics and government -- 1951-
	Politics and government.
Chronological Term	1951-
Subject	Neoliberalism.
	Neoliberalism.
Chronological Term	Since 1951
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Krinsky, John. Free labor. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007 9780226453651 0226453650 (DLC) 2007015186 (OCoLC)123539305
ISBN	9780226453675 (electronic book)
	0226453677 (electronic book)
	9780226453651 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
	0226453650 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
	9780226453668 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
	0226453669 (paperback ; alkaline paper)

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

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