The welfare state crisis and the transformation of social service work [electronic resource] / Michael B. Fabricant, Steve Burghardt.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Irwin Epstein
- 1. The Response to the Poor by a Debtor State: The Economic and Social Crises of the 1990s. Introduction: Unanswered Questions in Unsettling Times. A Deeper Look at the Financial Problems of the 1990s. The Decline of the American Economy: Deindustrialization and the Restratification of the Labor Force. Beyond the "Intensification of Poverty": The Response to the Poor by a Debtor State. An Ominous Future: The Inability of States and Local Communities to Do More
- 2. The Political Economic Framework of the Welfare State Crisis. Introduction. Three Theories of the Welfare State: Conservative, Liberal, and Neo-Marxist. The Contradictions between the Democratic State and Capitalist Society. Why Groups under Capitalism Must Turn to the State: The Development of the State's Accumulation-Legitimation. Conflict-Laden Activities and Processes of the Welfare State: The Role of Class Struggle. The Neo-Marxist Deterministic Analysis of Welfare State Programs
- 3. The Crisis and Transformation of Public Social Services. Introduction. Cost Containment and the Restructuring of Social Service Practice. New Mechanisms of Internal Control at the Workplace. Cost Containment and the Creation of Industrial Services. Proletarianization and the Alienation of the Social Service Labor Force. The Segmentation of the Social Service Labor Market
- 4. The Crisis and Transformation of Not-For-Profit Social Services: A Qualitative Analysis. Introduction. The Not-for-Profits' Partnership with the State. Cost Containment and the Redefinition of the Partnership. Changes at the Level of the Agency and Worker. Cost Containment and the Productive, Efficient Budget: Leaner and Meaner. Narrowing the Service Encounter. Alienation from Client and Service. Devaluation of the Social Service Worker. The Struggle to Preserve Craft and Service. A Deepening Crisis
- 5. Charting a New Direction: Generative Social Services. The Findings and Their Implications for the Future. An Alternate Direction: Limited Pragmatism and the Development of Intensified Forms of Social Services. Formulating a Generative Model of Social Services. The Dilemmas of Generative Social Services. What Is at Stake.