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Black Women, Work, and Welfare in the Age of Globalization (Hardcover)
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Black Women, Work, and Welfare in the Age of Globalization (Hardcover)
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Pinder explores how globalization has shaped, and continues to
shape, the American economy, which impacts the welfare state in
markedly new ways. In the United States, the transformation from a
manufacturing economy to a service economy escalated the need for
an abundance of flexible, exploitable, cheap workers. The
implementation of the Personal Responsibility Work Opportunity
Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), whose generic term is workfare, is one
of the many ways in which the government responded to capital need
for cheap labor. While there is a clear link between welfare and
low-wage markets, workfare forces welfare recipients, including
single mothers with young children, to work outside of the home in
exchange for their welfare checks. More importantly, workfare
provides an "underclass" of labor that is trapped in jobs that pay
minimum wage. This "underclass" is characteristically gendered and
racialized, and the book builds on these insights and seeks to
illuminate a crucial but largely overlooked aspect of the negative
impact of workfare on black single mother welfare recipients. The
stereotype of the "underclass," which is infused with racial
meaning, is used to describe and illustrate the position of black
single mother welfare recipients and is an implicit way of talking
about poor women with an invidious racist and sexist subtext, which
Pinder suggests is one of the ways in which "gendered racism"
presents itself in the United States. Ultimately, the book analyzes
the intersectionality of race, gender, and class in terms of
welfare policy reform in the United States.
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