{"product_id":"selling-welfare-reform-frank-ridzi-9780814775936","title":"Selling Welfare Reform: Work-First and the New Common Sense of Employment","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 1996 Welfare Reform Act promised to end welfare as we knew it. In \u003cb\u003eSelling Welfare Reform\u003c\/b\u003e, Frank Ridzi uses rich ethnographic detail to examine how new welfare-to-work policies, time limits, and citizenship documentation radically changed welfare, revealing what really goes on at the front lines of the reformed welfare system. \u003cb\u003eSelling Welfare Reform\u003c\/b\u003e chronicles how entrepreneurial efforts ranging from front-line caseworkers to high-level administrators set the pace for restructuring a resistant bureaucracy. At the heart of this remarkable institutional transformation is a market-centered approach to human services that re-framed the definition of success to include diversion from the present system, de-emphasis of legal protections and behavioral conditioning of poor parents to accommodate employers. Ridzi draws a compelling portrait of how welfare staff and their clients negotiate the complexities of the low wage labor market in an age of global competition, exposing the realities of how the new \"common sense\" of poverty is affecting the lives of poor and vulnerable Americans.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Frank Ridzi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814775934\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814775936\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/29\/2009 pg. 19\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2010","brand":"Frank Ridzi","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47425081966847,"sku":"9780814775936","price":107.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3d4ed3cc-6e88-4aa6-a5cc-a93328100a20.jpg?v=1761536883","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/selling-welfare-reform-frank-ridzi-9780814775936","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}