People at Work: Life, Power, and Social Inclusion in the New Economy 9780814720035, 9780814720042, 9780814785195, 0814785190
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Table of contents :
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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Ideologies of the Neoliberal Economy
"Hell on My Face": The Production of Workplace Il-literacy
Institutional Technologies: Coordinating Families and Schools, Bodies and Texts
The Promises and Realities of U.S. Microenterprise Development
Work, Disability, and Social Inclusion: The Promise and Problematics of EU Disability Policy
Part II: Mobile Bodies: Incorporation Without Inclusion
Flexible Hiring, Immigration, and Indian IT Workers' Experiences of Contract Work in the United States. Economic Restructuring and the Social Regulation of Citizenship in the HeartlandPart III: The Fictional Worlds of "Unencumbered Workers"
Training for Low-Wage Work: TANF Recipients Preparing for Health-Care Work
Women's Lives, Welfare's Time Limits
Personal Responsibility in Professional Work: The Academic "Star" as Ideological Code
"Use What You Have, Be Thankful You Have It": Work and the Promise of Social Inclusion for Students with Disabilities
Part IV: Fiscal Discipline: The Texts of Public-Sector Budget Cutting. Exploring Problematics of the Personal-Responsibility Welfare State: Issues of Family and Caregiving in Welfare-to-Work and Medicaid Consumer-Directed Care ProgramsThe "Textualized" Student: An Institutional Ethnography of a Funding Policy for Students with Special Needs in Ontario
(Dis)continuity of Care: Explicating the Ruling Relations of Home Support
Conclusion
References
Contributors
Index.
