[PDF] Contested Learning In Welfare Work eBook

Author : Peter H. Sawchuk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 24,4 MB
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107034671

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Drawing on the field of cultural historical psychology and the sociologies of skill and labour process, Contested Learning in Welfare Work offers a detailed account of the learning lives of state welfare workers in Canada as they cope, accommodate, resist and flounder in times of heightened austerity. Documented through in-depth qualitative and quantitative analysis, Peter Sawchuk shows how the labour process changes workers, and how workers change the labour process, under the pressures of intensified economic conditions, new technologies, changing relations of space and time, and a high-tech version of Taylorism. Sawchuk traces these experiences over a seven-year period that includes major work reorganisation and the recent economic downturn. His analysis examines the dynamics between notions of de-skilling, re-skilling and up-skilling, as workers negotiate occupational learning and changing identities.

Author : Peter Harold Sawchuk
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 34,54 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Civil service
ISBN : 9781107345942

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A detailed account of the lives of state welfare workers as they accommodate, resist and flounder in times of austerity.

Author : Judith Combes Taylor
Publisher :
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 34,39 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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A study assessed the relevance of work-based learning approaches used in school-to-work efforts. Evidence indicated that employers were steadily raising the entry requirements into the low end of the labor market. Despite the serious skill deficiencies of welfare recipients, employers felt no responsibility to people who lacked the basic skills needed to hold a job and provided little support for individuals who could not function effectively in a work environment. They provided limited training for entry-level workers, but were receptive to helping welfare recipients. School-to-work models incorporated work experience and learning at work through mentoring, contextual learning, and credentialing of competencies and skills learned on the job. Three skills-related challenges facing welfare recipients could be addressed through work-based learning approaches in paid employment or community-service placements: understanding the workplace; learning a range of skills and knowledge broader than needed to accomplish immediate job tasks; and getting employers to recognize credits for skills and knowledge mastered on the job. Technical assistance and integration with the education system are still needed to assist welfare recipients' efforts to get jobs and advance in a career. These policy directions were identified: grants/support for third parties, laboratories and demonstration programs, financial incentives for employers, and integration of the welfare, employment and training, and education systems. (Appendixes contain instruments and 94 references.) (YLB)

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 50,38 MB
Release : 2001-08-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0309171342

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Reform of welfare is one of the nation's most contentious issues, with debate often driven more by politics than by facts and careful analysis. Evaluating Welfare Reform in an Era of Transition identifies the key policy questions for measuring whether our changing social welfare programs are working, reviews the available studies and research, and recommends the most effective ways to answer those questions. This book discusses the development of welfare policy, including the landmark 1996 federal law that devolved most of the responsibility for welfare policies and their implementation to the states. A thorough analysis of the available research leads to the identification of gaps in what is currently known about the effects of welfare reform. Evaluating Welfare Reform in an Era of Transition specifies what-and why-we need to know about the response of individual states to the federal overhaul of welfare and the effects of the many changes in the nation's welfare laws, policies, and practices. With a clear approach to a variety of issues, Evaluating Welfare Reform in an Era of Transition will be important to policy makers, welfare administrators, researchers, journalists, and advocates on all sides of the issue.

Author : Mark Considine
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,58 MB
Release : 2015-09-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0191061417

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Getting Welfare to Work traces the radical reform of the Australian, UK, and Dutch public employment services systems. Starting with major changes from 1998, this book examines how each national system has moved from traditional public services towards more privately provided and market-based methods. Each of these three countries developed innovative forms of contracting-out and complex incentive regimes to motivate welfare clients and to control the agencies charged with helping them. The Australian system pioneered the use of large, national contracts for services to all unemployed jobseekers. By the end of our study period this system was entirely outsourced to private agencies. Meanwhile the UK elected a form of contestability under Blair and Cameron, culminating in a new public-private financing model known as the 'Work Programme'. The Dutch had evolved their far more complex system from a traditional public service approach to one using a variety of specific contracts for private agencies. These innovations have changed welfare delivery and created both opportunities and new constraints for policy makers. Getting Welfare to Work tells the story of these bold policy reforms from the perspective of street-level bureaucrats. Interviews and surveys in each country over a fifteen year period are used to critically appraise this central pillar of the welfare state. The original data analysed in Getting Welfare to Work provides a unique comparative perspective on three intriguing systems. It points to new ways of thinking about modes of governance, system design, regulation of public services, and so-called activation of welfare clients. It also sheds light on the predicament of third sector organisations that contract to governments through competitive tenders with precise performance monitoring, raising questions of 'mission drift'.

Author : Chris Warhurst
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 24,75 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0199655367

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Skills and workforce development are at the heart of much research on work, employment, and management. But are they so important? To what extent can they make a difference for individuals, organizations, and nations? How are the supply and, more importantly, the utilization of skill, currently evolving? What are the key factors shaping skills trajectories of the future? This Handbook provides an authoritative consideration of issues such as these. It does so by drawing on experts in a wide range of disciplines including sociology, economics, labour/industrial relations, human resource management, education, and geography. The Handbook is relevant for all with an interest in the changing nature - and future - of work, employment, and management. It draws on the latest scholarly insights to shed new light on all the major issues concerning skills and training today. While written primarily by leading scholars in the field, it is equally relevant to policy makers and practitioners responsible for shaping the development of human capability today and into the future.

Author : Susan E. Roche
Publisher :
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 17,30 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Education
ISBN :

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This book takes the discourse of cooperative learning to new territories. Susan E. Roche, Marty Dewees, and company take a critically reflective look at educational and global human rights philosophy, as well as social work's commitment to social justice. In liberatory teaching and learning, social work educators engage the mechanisms of privilege, power, and authority that inhabit the academic world no less than the practice world. The authors place social work education within a global framework and develop their postmodern educational philosophy around a set of five liberatory principles. These principles question the hierarchies and status-based roles and identities found in social work classrooms and field practica. BSW, MSW, and doctoral educators and students will find helpful case examples illustrating the principles at work. In the final section, the authors discuss the challenges of liberatory education as well as strategies to address them.

Author : Zastrow
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,51 MB
Release : 2003-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780534608477

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Workbook with chapter summaries and experiential exercises.