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Workfare
Why Good Social Policy Ideas Go Bad
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Published/Copyright:
2002
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Quaid delves into the definition and history of workfare, and then continues with a critical and comparative analysis of workfare programs in six jurisdictions: California, Wisconsin, New York, Alberta, Ontario, and New Brunswick.
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Quaid Maeve :
Maeve Quaid is an Associate Professor in the Administrative Studies Program at Trent University.
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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1. Introduction
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2. What Is Workfare? Something, Nothing, or Anything and Everything?
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3. Policy Chic: Putting the Poor to Work
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4. California’s GAIN – Program The Operation Was a Success but the Patient Died
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5. Wisconsin – Tommy Thompson and His Welfare Miracle
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6. New York City’s Work Experience Program – ‘Same Shit, Different Day’
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7. ‘Learnfare’ in New Brunswick – Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out
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8. Alberta’s Mandatory ‘Voluntary Opportunities’
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9. The Ontario Works Program – Mutiny on the Bounty
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10. Why Good Ideas Go Bad: A Six – Hazard Model
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References
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Index
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October 11, 2002
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9781442683655
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256
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College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
