RT Article
T1 Welfare Is Not for Sale: Campaigns Against Welfare Profiteers in Milwaukee
JF Social justice
VO 33
IS 3
SP 38
OP 53
A1 Reese, Ellen 1969-
A2 Giedraitis, Vincent R.
A2 Vega, Eric
LA English
YR 2006
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1747157422
AB Part of a special issue on resistance to neoliberal globalization. In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, community and labor groups tried to oppose welfare privatization and enhance the delivery of welfare service. The labor and community activists drew media and government attention to the various scandals associated with privatization and lax supervision of welfare contractors and, in so doing, sought to mobilize popular opposition to welfare privatization and undermine its legitimacy. In addition, activists pressured welfare contractors into improving their services through disruptive protests, negative publicity, large public forums, and lobbying. Although activists could not convince Wisconsin politicians to return welfare administration to public civil servants, they succeeded in getting increased regulation of welfare contractors, a curbing of their worst abuses, and the termination of several welfare contracts.
K1 PUBLIC demonstrations
K1 Publicity
K1 Investment of public funds
K1 Civil Rights
K1 Political corruption
K1 Social Movements
K1 Public welfare -- United States
K1 Public Welfare
K1 Contracting out
K1 United States -- Social policy
K1 Decision making -- United States
K1 Privatization