{"product_id":"social-citizenship-and-workfare-in-the-united-states-and-western-europe-the-paradox-of-inclusion-paperback-9780521541534","title":"Social Citizenship and Workfare in the United States and Western Europe; The Paradox of Inclusion (Paperback) 9780521541534","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSocial Citizenship and Workfare in the United States and Western Europe\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Paradox of Inclusion\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCompares workfare policies in the United States and Western Europe aimed at the 'workless' population.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJoel F. Handler (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521541534, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 29 April 2004\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e330 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.3 x 2.1 cm, 0.538 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Handler provides a powerful critique of the trend from welfare to workfare.\"    Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis book compares workfare policies in the United States and 'active labor policies' in Western Europe that are aimed primarily at the long-term unemployed, unemployed youth, lone parents, immigrants and other vulnerable groups often referred to collectively as the 'socially excluded'. The Europeans maintain that workfare is the best method of bringing the socially excluded back into mainstream society. Although there are differences in terms of ideology and practice, Joel F. Handler argues that there are also significant similarities, especially field-level practices that serve to exclude those who are the least employable or lack other qualifications that agencies favor. The author also examines strategies for reform, including protective labor legislation, the Open Method of Coordination, the reform of social and employment services, and concludes with an argument for a basic income guarantee, which would not only alleviate poverty but also provide clients with an exit option.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e 1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 2. The American Welfare Reform: 'Ending welfare as we know it': The 'undeserving poor'\u003cbr\u003e 'Ending welfare as we know it'\u003cbr\u003e The 'work first' strategy\u003cbr\u003e The low-wage labor market\u003cbr\u003e The work experience of welfare recipients\u003cbr\u003e The attitudes of welfare recipients\u003cbr\u003e The decline in the welfare rolls and poverty\u003cbr\u003e The future\u003cbr\u003e Recommendations to make welfare really work\u003cbr\u003e Social citizenship in the US\u003cbr\u003e Some lessons from the American experience that might be applicable to Western Europe\u003cbr\u003e 3. The European welfare states: social citizenship in the golden age\u003cbr\u003e The challenge of unemployment\u003cbr\u003e The impact on labor\u003cbr\u003e Vulnerable groups: the socially excluded\u003cbr\u003e Poverty\u003cbr\u003e Right, center and left - questioning the welfare state\u003cbr\u003e The 'third way': from status to contract\u003cbr\u003e 4. Workfare in western Europe: the United Kingdom\u003cbr\u003e Ireland\u003cbr\u003e Sweden\u003cbr\u003e Norway\u003cbr\u003e Denmark\u003cbr\u003e The Netherlands\u003cbr\u003e France\u003cbr\u003e Germany\u003cbr\u003e Risks for the socially excluded\u003cbr\u003e 5. Social Europe: alternatives? Conclusions? Solutions?\u003cbr\u003e Part A. Social Europe: convergence vs. path-dependent\u003cbr\u003e Negative vs. positive integration\u003cbr\u003e Part B. Reform at the national level\u003cbr\u003e Part C. 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