...Melinda Cooper The essay identifies workfare as the exemplary form of contingent labor practice inasmuch as it blurs the boundaries between the free and unfree labor contract, welfare and work, flexibility and compulsion. However, analyses of workfare have too often ignored the centrality of sexual...

... to the parliamentary coup, analyzing the imposed agenda in terms of a political economy of its regulatory aspects, in tandem with a sociospatial perspective on the right-wing turn and its implications. The major elements of the package are: the imposition of a workfare regime, the flexibilization of labor relations...

... and putative solutions, just as it enables a dialogue between those jurisdic- tions in search of new answers with out-­of-­town purveyors of innovative policy fixes. Workfare did this, for example, by positing a causal relation- ship between the condition of welfare dependency (rooted in individual...

...: Debt, Prison, Workfare (2003). He teaches at Trinity College in Hartford, CT. don robotham is professor of anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of Culture, Society, Economy: Globalization and Its Alternatives (2005). nicholet.rustinis completing...

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..., and Nik Theodore, Neoliberalism Resurgent? Market Rule after the Great Recession 265 Ceceña, Ana Esther, On the Complex Relation between Knowledges and Emancipations 111 Colectivo Situaciones, Closures and Openings in the Impasse 133 Cooper, Melinda, Workfare, Familyfare, Godfare: Transforming Contingency...

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..., and various configu- rations of welfare/workfare systems.13 The ragged and unruly transition from New Deal to postwelfare modes of regulation is a story often told in terms of the rollback of federal institutions and entitlements, and appropriately so. But viewed from below, it is also a story...

..., incarceration, or harsh forced- work policies (workfare), and also by the disavowal of public education.That a disproportionate part of the contingent class is of color, and because of the culture of racism in U.S. history that has forged what it means to be both a danger (all but white) and a success...

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...- niques. These include, but are not limited to, the application of unemploy- ment benefit conditions, whereby receipt of benefits is conditional on partici- pation in training or job placement programs (or workfare time limits on unemployment benefits; job subsidies; counseling; job search assistance...

... democratic political parties adapt to the political economies of neoliberalism. Bob Jessop (2003: 39) calls this phenomenon the “workfare regime,” which “subordinates social policy to the demands of labor market flexibility and employability and to the demands of structural or systemic...

... to as workfare, emerged as the alternative to state dependency. Kim and Schalk Reclaiming the Radical Politics of Self-Care: A Crip-of-Color Critique 341 References Baratta, Maria. 2018. Self Care 101. Psychology Today. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog /skinny-revisited/201805/self-care-101. Chang, Grace...

... a rationale for the introduction of workfare and withdrawal of social safety nets (Cohen 1997 ; Kim 2021 ). The enormous increase in incarceration initiated by the war on drugs and intensified carceral logics such as broken windows policing (Ansfield 2020 ) meant higher rates of incarceration of Black...

... by emphasizing that a broad-based movement consists of coalitions among people who do not always agree and Wisconsin governor Tommy Thomp- son by presenting his state’s workfare-welfare and school-voucher programs as examples of how...