The Logic of Workfare
The Underclass and Work Policy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9747624 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lawrence M Mead (0000-0002-1603-6361, New York University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 501 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 156-169 |
| Publication date | 1989-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002716289501001011 |
| OpenAlex | W2128281236 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 33 |
Much of today's entrenched poverty reflects the fact that poor adults seldom work consistently. The problem cannot be blamed predominantly on lack of jobs or other barriers to employment, as the chance to work seems widely available. More likely, the poor do not see work in menial jobs as fair, possible, or obligatory, though they want to work in principle. Government has evolved policies explicitly to raise work levels among the poor. Workfare programs, linked to welfare, show the most promise but still reach only a minority of employable recipients. Welfare reform should, above all, raise participation in these programs, as the share of clients involved largely governs their impact. Welfare should also cover more nonworking men to bring them under workfare. While work enforcement may seem punitive, the poor must become workers before they can stake larger claims to equality
Economic growth · Economics · Government (linguistics · Labour economics · Market economy · Political science · Poverty · Punitive damages · Underclass · Welfare · Welfare reform · Work (physics · Workfare · Employment and Welfare Studies · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Law
The Urban Underclass
Job aspirations and ethnic minority unemployment in the UK
The Culture of Poverty and African-American Culture
The Ethics of Universal Health Insurance
The Politics of the Welfare State in Turkey
Social Citizenship and Workfare in the United States and Western Europe
The Racial Dimension in Urban Political Economy
Workfare
The ‘pathologically state dependent’ versus ‘middle-aged ministers on mammoth salaries
The Underclass, 'Social Isolation' and 'Concentration Effects
Selling the Unemployed
America's Uneven Democracy
Welfare Dependency of Urban Dibao in China
Within cities and suburbs
Watching the defectives
The role of maternal educational aspirations in mediating the risk of income source on academic failure in children from persistently poor families
The American Philosophy of Welfare
Immigration and social assistance
Neoliberalism Filtered
Welfare Entitlements
Enforcing a Participation Mandate in a Welfare-to-Work Program
When Predictions Fail
Poverty among African Americans in the Urban United States
Identity and Economic Performance
Getting Ahead
The Underclass in the United States
Surviving the Welfare System
The Precariously Housed and the Risk of Homelessness
Welfare Dependency Among Chicanos and Puerto Ricans
Workfare
Race, Class and Segregation
What the hell is a high standard?' The Swedish Employers' Confederation and the six-hour workday debate in the mid 1970s
Effects of Welfare Participation on Marriage
| Unique citing works | 33 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,89 |
| Citation span | 1989 - 2026 (38) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 30 |