Throughout the history of the United States, work-based social
welfare practices have served to affirm the moral value of work. In
the late nineteenth century this representational project came to
be mediated by the printed word with the emergence of industrial
print technologies, the expansion of literacy, and the rise of
professionalization. In Work Requirements Todd Carmody asks how
work, even the most debasing or unproductive labor, came to be seen
as inherently meaningful during this era. He explores how the print
culture of social welfare-produced by public administrators, by
economic planners, by social scientists, and in literature and the
arts-tasked people on the social and economic margins, specifically
racial minorities, incarcerated people, and people with
disabilities, with shoring up the fundamental dignity of work as
such. He also outlines how disability itself became a tool of
social discipline, defined by bureaucratized institutions as the
inability to work. By interrogating the representational effort
necessary to make work seem inherently meaningful, Carmody
ultimately reveals a forgotten history of competing efforts to
think social belonging beyond or even without work.
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