One of former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's proudest
accomplishments is his expansion of the Work Experience Program,
which uses welfare recipients to do routine work once done by
unionized city workers. The fact that WEP workers are denied the
legal status of employees and make far less money and enjoy fewer
rights than do city workers has sparked fierce opposition. For
antipoverty activists, legal advocates, unions, and other critics
of the program this double standard begs a troubling question: are
workfare participants workers or welfare recipients?
At times the fight over workfare unfolded as an argument over who
had the authority to define these terms, and in "Free Labor," John
Krinsky focuses on changes in the language and organization of the
political coalitions on either side of the debate. Krinsky's
broadly interdisciplinary analysis draws from interviews, official
documents, and media reports to pursue new directions in the study
of the cultural and cognitive aspects of political activism. "Free
Labor" will instigate a lively dialogue among students of culture,
labor and social movements, welfare policy, and urban political
economy.
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