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The Workfare State - Public Assistance Politics from the New Deal to the New Democrats (Paperback): Eva Bertram The Workfare State - Public Assistance Politics from the New Deal to the New Democrats (Paperback)
Eva Bertram
R856 Discovery Miles 8 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In the Great Recession of 2007-2009, the United States suffered the most sustained and extensive wave of job destruction since the Great Depression. When families in need sought help from the safety net, however, they found themselves trapped in a system that increasingly tied public assistance to private employment. In The Workfare State, Eva Bertram recounts the compelling history of the evolving social contract from the New Deal to the present to show how a need-based entitlement was replaced with a work-conditioned safety net, heightening the economic vulnerability of many poor families. The Workfare State challenges the conventional understanding of the development of modern public assistance policy. New Deal and Great Society Democrats expanded federal assistance from the 1930s to the 1960s, according to the standard account. After the 1980 election, the tide turned and Republicans ushered in a new conservative era in welfare politics. Bertram argues that the decisive political struggles took place in the 1960s and 1970s, when Southern Democrats in Congress sought to redefine the purposes of public assistance in ways that would preserve their region's political, economic, and racial order. She tells the story of how the South-the region with the nation's highest levels of poverty and inequality and least generous social welfare policies-won the fight to rewrite America's antipoverty policy in the decades between the Great Society and the 1996 welfare reform. Their successes provided the foundation for leaders in both parties to build the contemporary workfare state-just as deindustrialization and global economic competition made low-wage jobs less effective at providing income security and mobility.

Die Informatisierung von Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft und ihre Auswirkungen auf die Arbeitsbeziehungen am Beispiel des... Die Informatisierung von Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft und ihre Auswirkungen auf die Arbeitsbeziehungen am Beispiel des Online-Journalismus (German, Paperback)
Eva Bertram
R3,135 R2,886 Discovery Miles 28 860 Save R249 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2001 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Printmedien, Presse, Note: 1,3, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum (Sozialwissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Arbeits- und Wirtschaftssoziologie, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Inhaltsangabe: Gang der Untersuchung: Der Weg in die Informationsgesellschaft ist gekennzeichnet durch den Prozess der Informatisierung. Mit Informatisierung ist der Prozess der Entwicklung und Verbreitung der IuK-Technologien gemeint. Dementsprechend soll die Auswirkung der Informatisierung auf die Gesellschaft, und ihre Teilbereiche Wirtschaft und Arbeit dargestellt werden. Die Veranderungen werden anschliessend im Kapitel 6 Infodealer am Beispiel des Online-Journalismus veranschaulicht. Nach einem theoretischen Uberblick uber die Entwicklung des Begriffs der Informationsgesellschaft, der Darstellung des empirisch fassbaren Wandels in den einzelnen Teilbereichen und einer Einfuhrung des Wissens- und Informationsbegriffs (Kapitel 2) folgt im zweiten Teil der Arbeit eine Diskussion uber den Wandel in den gesellschaftlichen Teilbereichen (Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft und Arbeit, Kapitel 3-5). In Kapitel 3 soll herausgearbeitet werden, was die technologischen Entwicklungen fur die Gesellschaft bedeuten: Wird eine tiefe Kluft entstehen zwischen Wissenden und Nichtwissenden, Jung und Alt, technikversiert oder nicht? Droht der Gesellschaft eine Digitale Spaltung? In Kapitel 4 geht es um die wirtschaftlichen Veranderungen, die bedingt sind durch Globalisierung, Tertiarisierung und Informatisierung. Gibt es die New Economy? Welche Aspekte hat die Internetokonomie, funktionieren Markte nach neuen Mechanismen, wenn ja nach welchen? Die Veranderungen der Wirtschaft werden dementsprechend in Bezug auf die Arbeitsbeziehungen dargelegt. Diese Aspekte werden in Kapitel 5 erortert. Kommt es aus Rationalisierungsgrunden zu einem massiven Arbeitsplatzabbau oder bringt die Informationsgesellschaft das erhoffte Beschaftigungswunder? Auch hier gibt es Gewinner und

Drug War Politics - The Price of Denial (Paperback, New): Eva Bertram, Morris Blachman, Kenneth Sharpe, Peter Andreas Drug War Politics - The Price of Denial (Paperback, New)
Eva Bertram, Morris Blachman, Kenneth Sharpe, Peter Andreas
R1,080 Discovery Miles 10 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Why have our drug wars failed and how might we turn things around? Ask the authors of this hardhitting expose of U.S. efforts to fight drug trafficking and abuse. In a bold analysis of a century's worth of policy failure, "Drug War Politics" turns on its head many familiar bromides about drug politics. It demonstrates how, instead of learning from our failures, we duplicate and reinforce them in the same flawed policies. The authors examine the "politics of denial" that has led to this catastrophic predicament and propose a basis for a realistic and desperately needed solution. Domestic and foreign drug wars have consistently fallen short because they are based on a flawed model of force and punishment, the authors show. The failure of these misguided solutions has led to harsher get-tough policies, debilitating cycles of more force and punishment, and a drug problem that continues to escalate. On the foreign policy front, billions of dollars have been wasted, corruption has mushroomed, and human rights undermined in Latin America and across the globe. Yet cheap drugs still flow abundantly across our borders. At home, more money than ever is spent on law enforcement, and an unprece

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