Workfare : why good social policy ideas go bad

Workfare : why good social policy ideas go bad /

One of the greatest, as well as the most debated, social policy ideas of the 1980s and 1990s was workfare. In Workfare: Why Good Social Policy Ideas Go Bad, Maeve Quaid delves into the definition and history of workfare, and then continues with a critical and comparative analysis of workfare program...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Quaid, Maeve
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, ©2002.
Series:Faculty Publications Collection (Thomas J. Bata Library)
Subjects:
Welfare recipients > Employment > Canada.
Welfare recipients > Employment > United States.
Public welfare administration > Canada.
Public welfare administration > United States.
Online Access: Full text (Emmanuel users only)
Table of Contents:
  • What is workfare? Something, nothing, or anything and everything
  • Policy chic : putting the poor to work
  • California's GAIN program : the operation was a success but the patient died
  • Wisconsin : Tommy Thompson and his welfare miracle
  • New York City's Work Experience Program : 'same shit, different day
  • 'Learnfare' in New Brunswick : tune in, turn on, drop out
  • Alberta's mandatory 'voluntary opportunities'
  • Ontario works program : mutiny on the bounty
  • Why good ideas for bad : a six-hazard model.

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