The Welfare Contract and Critical Case Management

Bibliographic Data

ID12454991
AuthorsCynthia Isenhour (University of Kentucky, corresponding author), Beth L Goldstein, Beth Goldstein (Kentucky Department of Education)
Year2008
Volume12
Issue1
Pages1-26
Publication date2008-05-12
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Poverty (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1087-5549 • E-ISSN: 1540-7608
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10875540801967890
OpenAlexW2076778247
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited15

Drawing on three years of ethnographic research on the decision making processes of welfare case managers in urban Kentucky, we focus here on a group of case managers who subvert the demands placed on them by neoliberal welfare policy. These women refer to their own experiences as low-income, single parents to reconceptualize notions of the “un/deserving” poor, the welfare contract, and what it means to be “self-sufficient.” Case manager resistance and moral constructs are instructional, making explicit the dehumanizing aspects of the system and valuing a rights-based discourse which recognizes the state's obligation to ensure the welfare of all citizens

Dehumanization · Ethnography · Law and economics · Obligation · Political science · Public relations · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Welfare · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Social Work Education and Practice

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