The sanctity of work.

Title: The sanctity of work.
Identifier: AAI9605617
identifier: 9605617
Creator: Lewis, Michael Anthony.
Contributor: Adviser: Frances Fox Piven
Date: 1995
Language: English
Publisher: City University of New York.
Subject: Sociology, Public and Social Welfare | Social Work | American Studies
Abstract: During the period from 1967 to the present, the U.S. government has been instituting mandated welfare-to-work programs in an effort to move public assistance recipients off the welfare rolls and into the labor force. Mandated welfare-to-work programs are welfare reform programs which require welfare recipients to engage in some type of work preparation activity as a condition of receiving public assistance benefits. I argue that these programs have done little to promote work among welfare recipients and that this is mainly due to the fact that they fail to address key circumstances in the lives of welfare recipients which make it difficult for them to work. I also argue that the main function of these programs has been their ability to promote and reinforce the belief that able-bodied adults are morally obligated to work for their subsistence.
Type: dissertation
Source: PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
degree: Ph.D.