عنوان

Agents of the welfare state :

1403984115

9781403984111

b751952

Agents of the welfare state :

[Book]

how caseworkers respond to need in the United States, Germany, and Sweden /

Christopher J. Jewell.

1st ed.

New York :

Palgrave Macmillan,

2007.

xvi, 246 pages :

illustrations ;

22 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-236) and index.

Book Overview: Responding to Need in Diverse State Settings -- Linking Welfare Caseworker Decision-Making to State Institutions -- Welfare Caseworkers in California, the United States: Eligibility Technicians and the Regulation of Desert -- Welfare Caseworkers in Bremen, Germany: Entitlement Scholars in a Highly Regulated State -- Welfare Caseworkers in Malmö, Sweden. Social Workers and the Consultation Culture -- Welfare-to-Work Caseworkers in California, The United States: Institutionalizing the Search for Employment -- Welfare-to-Work Caseworkers in Bremen, Germany: Resource Brokering Into Vocational Training and the Secondary Labor Market -- Welfare-to-Work Caseworkers in Malmö, Sweden: The Emergence of Individualized Employment Services in Municipal Activation Agencies -- Comparing Welfare Administration in the Three Worlds of Social Welfare.

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Have globalization pressures and neo-liberal ideas led to convergence in how countries respond to welfare claimants? Through ethnographic case studies of social assistance offices in the United States, Germany and Sweden, Agents of the Welfare State demonstrates persistent diversity in how states structure needs assessment and activation efforts, contrasting a bureaucratic, flat-grant system in the U.S., with German and Swedish programs in which individualized assessment is a core organizational task. It shows how responsiveness in these European programs is institutionalized through nationally distinct legal foundations, professional traditions, and resource networks, while revealing how resource scarcities threaten to erode these capabilities.

Public welfare-- Germany.

Public welfare-- Sweden.

Public welfare-- United States.

Aide sociale-- Allemagne.

Aide sociale-- États-Unis.

Aide sociale-- Suède.

Public welfare.

Socialarbetare.

Sozialarbeit.

Sozialpolitik.

Välfärd-- Förenta staterna.

Välfärd-- Sverige.

Välfärd-- Tyskland.

Välfärdsstaten.

Wohlfahrtsstaat.

Deutschland.

Germany.

Schweden.

Sweden.

United States.

USA.

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