Joel F Handler

Biographic Data

ID1493100
NAMEJoel F Handler
GIVEN NAMESJoel F
FAMILY NAMEHandler
SIGNATUREHANDLER J F
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Los Angeles
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS37
TOTAL CITATIONS136
AUTHOR COUNT37
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1968
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
H-INDEX4

  • Welfare, Workfare, and Citizenship in the Developed World

    Joel F HandlerARTICLEAnnual Review of Law and Social…2009

    This review discusses the changes in welfare policies and the role of law in those changes in the United States and the developed world. In 1996, the U.S. Congress and President Clinton committed to “ending welfare as we know it” and changed welfare to workfare. Under the “work first” strategy, recipients are pressured to take the first entry-level job they are offered. Caseworkers, overworked and undertrained, are under pressure to produce favor…

  • The Failure of Workfare

    Joel F Handler, Joel Handler et al.ARTICLEBasic Income Studies2006

    There has been a major shift in welfare policies in the developed world towards activation, decentralization, and privatization. The 1996 US welfare reform welfare for single mother families was no longer an entitlement and there were stiff work requirements enforced by sanctions and time limits. In Western Europe, although there is variation, welfare has become conditional for social assistance recipients the "socially excluded." Social assistan…

  • On Welfare Reform's Hollow Victory

    Open AccessJoel F HandlerARTICLEDaedalus2006Cited by: 2

  • Myth and ceremony in workfare

    Open AccessJoel F HandlerARTICLEThe Journal of Socio-Economics2005

  • Social Citizenship and Workfare in the United States and Western Europe

    Open AccessJoel F HandlerBOOKSocial Citizenship and Workfare…2004

    This book compares workfare policies in the United States and 'active labor policies' in Western Europe that are aimed primarily at the long-term unemployed, unemployed youth, lone parents, immigrants and other vulnerable groups often referred to collectively as the 'socially excluded'. The Europeans maintain that workfare is the best method of bringing the socially excluded back into mainstream society. Although there are differences in terms of…

  • Social Citizenship and Workfare in the US and Western Europe

    Open AccessJoel F HandlerARTICLEJournal of European Social Policy2003Cited by: 51References: 4

    A major goal in workfare policies is to re-integrate the socially excluded into full citizenship. I examine the experience in the US and compare the current reforms in selected Western European countries. I argue that current policies of inclusion necessarily exclude. Workfare contemplates an individual `contract' between the agency and the client. I concentrate on the implementation issues - the characteristics and constraints on the welfare wor…

  • Reforming/Deforming Welfare

    Joel F Handler, Joel HandlerARTICLENew left review2000

    Clinton’s finest hour, on the welfare front. The moral hysterias and mean calculations of US reform are now a benchmark for post-social-democracy in Britain. Joel Handler considers the fall in American welfare rolls, and the realities of poverty and vulnerability behind them

  • Hard Labor

    Suzanne M Bianchi, Joel F Handler et al.ARTICLEIndustrial and Labor Relations…2000

  • We the Poor People

    Melissa Latimer, Joel F Handler et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1999

    Current welfare reforms-including recently enacted federal legislation-are largely symbolic politics, argue two experts in this important new book. According to Joel F. Handler and Yeheskel Hasenfeld, the real problem we face is not the spread of welfare but the spread of poverty among the working poor, a group that includes most welfare recipients. The surest way to solve the problem is to create jobs and supplement low-wage work. The authors of…

  • Living with Ambiguity

    Open AccessJoel F Handler, Joel HandlerARTICLELaw & Social Inquiry1998

    Medicare usually allows for four home visits. During that time, the Medicare nurse successfully teaches the frail, elderly patient to administer her injections. Has the patient been empowered? Congress and the president establish and regulate Medicare policy; the doctors diagnose, treat, and prescribe; the nurse carries out orders; and the patient performs a mechanical task. But if you ask the patient, she will tell you yes, that she no longer ha…

  • Living with Ambiguity

    Open AccessJoel F Handler, Joel HandlerARTICLELaw & Social Inquiry1998

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  • Down from Bureaucracy

    Robert Eli Rosen, Joel F HandlerARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1997

  • Ending Welfare as We Know It

    Sylvia A Law, Randy Albelda et al.ARTICLEStanford Law Review1997

  • Down from Bureaucracy

    Joel F HandlerBOOKDown from Bureaucracy1996

    Throughout the world, politicians are dismantling state enterprises and heaping praise on private markets, while in the United States a new rhetoric of "citizen empowerment" links a widespread distrust of government to decentralization and privatization. Here Joel Handler asks whether this restructuring of authority really allows ordinary citizens to take more control of the things that matter in their roles as parents and children, teachers and …

  • Reforming Welfare in America

    Edward T Jennings, Joel F Handler et al.ARTICLEPublic Administration Review1996

  • A Reply

    Open AccessJoel F HandlerARTICLELaw & Society Review1992Cited by: 3

  • Postmodernism, Protest, and the New Social Movements

    Open AccessJoel F HandlerARTICLELaw & Society Review1992Cited by: 55References: 18

    My subject is postmodern politics and law, protest from below, and the "new" social movements. The question I am concerned with is the value of postmodernism for transformative politics.Scholars concerned with the struggles of subordinate groups have long emphasized protest from below. Accounts of the resistance of blacks and poor people became prominent in the 1960s. This tradition, joined by feminists, gays and lesbians, as well as others, cont…

  • The moral construction of poverty

    Joel F HandlerBOOKThe moral construction of poverty1991

  • Dependency in the Welfare State

    Richard Lempert, Joel F Handler et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1991Cited by: 1

    The due process revolution has failed. Never mind that this verdict is an oversimplified exaggeration. It is closer to the truth than its opposite. Giving powerless, dependent, poor people property interests in their welfare benefits and the right to call those who exercise discretion over them legally into account does not magically cure the poverty, powerlessness, or dependency that motivated the extension of rights in the first instance. The o…

  • The Assault on the Ablebodied

    Joel F Handler, Michael B Katz et al.ARTICLEReviews in American History1987

  • The conditions of discretion

    Joel F HandlerBOOKThe conditions of discretion1986

  • Last Resorts

    Margaret Nielsen, Joel F Handler et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1985

  • Responses to Poverty

    Open AccessJoel F HandlerARTICLEPolitical Science Quarterly1985Cited by: 2

    Journal Article Responses to Poverty: Lessons from Europe, by Robert Walker and Peter Townsend, eds. Get access Responses to Poverty: Lessons From Europe edited by Robert Walker and Peter Townsend. Rutherford, N.J., Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1984. 337 pp. $32.50. Joel F. Handler Joel F. Handler University of Wisconsin Law School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volum…

  • Social Movements and the Legal System

    Mark C Johnson, Joel F Handler et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1981

  • Myths of Creation and Fables of Administration

    Barry M Mitnick, Gideon Doron et al.ARTICLEPublic Administration Review1980Cited by: 2