RT Article
T1 The Dialectics of Privatization And Advocacy in New York City's Workfare State
JF Social justice
VO 33
IS 3
SP 158
OP 174
A1 Krinsky, John
LA English
YR 2006
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1747157430
AB Part of a special issue on resistance to neoliberal globalization. Between 1995 and 1998, New York City's workfare programs, which require welfare recipients to work as a condition of receiving benefits, underwent a fourfold expansion, while welfare rolls were reduced by almost 50 percent. Workfare assignments under the Work Experience Program (WEP) created huge disincentives to remain on welfare and created more opportunities for the state to sanction or cut off welfare recipients' payments. The sharp decline in welfare rolls was also accomplished through stricter eligibility procedures and hassle" designed to get applicants to give up their efforts to sign up for relief. The writer discusses the dynamics by which the changes in welfare were introduced; the creation of an organized opposition to workfare; and the development of a discourse among the opposition that drew attention to WEP's shortcomings.
K1 Social Services
K1 Housing
K1 Coalitions
K1 Neoliberalism
K1 Privatization
K1 Public Welfare
K1 Employment of welfare recipients