Title Work requirements : race, disability, and the print culture of social welfare / Todd Carmody.

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Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.

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Description	1 online resource (320 pages) : illustrations
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Note	Description based on print version record.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction: Signs Taken for Work -- . The Pensioner's Claim -- The Beggar's Case -- The Work of the Image -- Institutional Rhythms -- Coda: Remaking Reciprocity
Summary	"Work Requirements reframes the history of work-based social welfare practice as a representational project tasked with shoring up the inherent meaningfulness of work, examining what Todd Carmody calls the "print culture of social welfare" to show how work became an indicator of social deservingness over the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Prior to the emergence of the formal US welfare state, textual projects-from documentary photographs to insurance claims-contributed to the idea that individuals must be engaged in work to deserve social welfare. Progressive charity reformers and advocates of Black industrial education pushed for social welfare reforms to make people with disabilities, poor people, people of color, and incarcerated people into wage-earning citizens. Carmody shows how the bootstrap narrative, Taylorist studies of labor, and nineteenth-century ideas of race and disability fed into a specific ideology about labor-particularly, that someone's willingness to work could be scientifically measured and systematically evaluated-that continues to shape US welfare policy today."-- Provided by publisher.
Subject	Public welfare -- United States -- History.
	Welfare recipients -- United States -- History.
	Work -- Social aspects -- United States.
	African Americans -- Social conditions.
	People with disabilities -- United States -- Social conditions.
	Minorities -- United States -- Social conditions.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities.
	African Americans -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst00799698
	Minorities -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01023228
	People with disabilities -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01057340
	Public welfare. (OCoLC)fst01083250
	Welfare recipients. (OCoLC)fst01173635
	Work -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01180224
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Print version: Carmody, Todd, 1979- Work requirements. Durham : Duke University Press, 2022 9781478015444 9781478018070 (DLC) 2021044991 (OCoLC)1265456507

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