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The new welfare bureaucrats : entanglements of race, class, and policy reform
- Title
- The new welfare bureaucrats : entanglements of race, class, and policy reform / Celeste Watkins-Hayes.
- Author
- Watkins-Hayes, Celeste.
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 315 p.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-307) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: do street-level bureaucracies matter in a post-welfare era? -- Situated bureaucrats: locating identity in catch-all bureaucracies -- Not everyone has the same bag of tricks: identity discord, discretionary toolkits, and policymaking in a changing institution -- Reinventing the street-level welfare bureaucrat: the reformation of professional -- Identities in postreform welfare offices -- Am I my sister's keeper: race, class, gender, and community in Staunton -- Race, place, and politics: negotiating community and diversity in Fishertown -- Conclusion: the crisis of identity in catch-all bureaucracies -- Appendix A: professional identities in the making: a history of the profession of welfare casework -- Appendix B: demographic data -- Appendix C: methodology.
- Call Number
- Sc E 10-38
- ISBN
- 9780226874913 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0226874915 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780226874920 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0226874923 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008048164
- OCLC
- 271105102
- Author
- Watkins-Hayes, Celeste.
- Title
- The new welfare bureaucrats : entanglements of race, class, and policy reform / Celeste Watkins-Hayes.
- Imprint
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-307) and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 10-38