Work and the welfare state : street-level organizations and workfare politics

Preface / Evelyn Z. Brodkin and Gregory Marston -- Introduction -- Work and the welfare state / Evelyn Z. Brodkin -- Street-level organizations and the welfare state / Evelyn Z. Brodkin -- What's at issue: politics, policies, and jobs -- The American welfare state : two narratives / Michael Lipsky -- The policies of workfare : at the boundaries between work and the welfare state / Evelyn Z. Brodkin and Flemming Larsen -- Double jeopardy : the misfit between welfare-to-work requirements and job realities / Susan Lambert and Julia Henly -- Governance and management : workfare's "second track" -- Triple activation : introducing welfare-to-work into dutch social assistance / Rik van Berkel -- Active labor market reform in denmark : the role of governance in policy change / Flemming Larsen -- Performance management as a disciplinary regime : street-level organizations in a neoliberal era of poverty governance / Joe Soss, Sanford Schram, and Richard Fording -- Street-level organizations and the practices of workfare -- Commodification, inclusion, or what? : workfare in everyday organizational life / Evelyn Z. Brodkin -- Race, respect, and red tape : inside the black box of racially representative bureaucracies / Celeste Watkins-Hayes -- Good intentions and institutional blindness : migrant populations and the implementation of German activation policy / Martin Brussig and Matthias Knuth -- Front-line workers as intermediaries : the changing landscape of disability and employment services in Australia / Gregory Marston -- Administrative justice : challenging workfare practices -- Conditionality, sanctions, and the weakness of redress mechanisms in the British "new deal" / Michael Adler -- Redress and accountability in U.S. welfare agencies / Vicki Lens -- Conclusion -- Work and the welfare state reconsidered : reflections on past practices and future prospects / Evelyn Z. Brodkin -- References -- About the contributors