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Black Women, Work, and Welfare in the Age of Globalization

Sherrow O. Pinder
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      Pinder explores how globalization has shaped, and continues to shape, the American economy, which impacts the welfare state in markedly new ways. In the United States, the transformation from a manufacturing economy to a service economy escalated the need for an abundance of flexible, exploitable, cheap workers. The implementation of the Personal Responsibility Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), whose generic term is workfare, is one of the many ways in which the government responded to capital need for cheap labor. While there is a clear link between welfare and low-wage markets, workfare forces welfare recipients, including single mothers with young children, to work outside of the home in exchange for their welfare checks. More importantly, workfare provides an “underclass” of labor that is trapped in jobs that pay minimum wage. This “underclass” is characteristically gendered and racialized, and the book builds on these insights and seeks to illuminate a crucial but largely overlooked aspect of the negative impact of workfare on black single mother welfare recipients. The stereotype of the “underclass,” which is infused with racial meaning, is used to describe and illustrate the position of black single mother welfare recipients and is an implicit way of talking about poor women with an invidious racist and sexist subtext, which Pinder suggests is one of the ways in which “gendered racism” presents itself in the United States. Ultimately, the book analyzes the intersectionality of race, gender, and class in terms of welfare policy reform in the United States.
      Format: Paperback / softback CONTRIBUTORS: Sherrow O. Pinder EAN: 9781498538985 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 345 g HEIGHT: 220 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Lexington Books DATE PUBLISHED: 2020-06-30 CITY: GENRE: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity WIDTH: 153 cm SPINE:

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      Relating to African American / Black American people, Society and culture: general, Social classes, Ethnic studies, Social welfare and social services, Central / national / federal government policies, Human rights, civil rights, Social and cultural history

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      Sherrow O. Pinder is professor of political science and multicultural and gender studies at California State University, Chico.
      Pinder explores how globalization has shaped, and continues to shape, the American economy, which impacts the welfare state in markedly new ways. In the United States, the transformation from a manufacturing economy to a service economy escalated the need for an abundance of flexible, exploitable, cheap workers. The implementation of the Personal Responsibility Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), whose generic term is workfare, is one of the many ways in which the government responded to capital need for cheap labor. While there is a clear link between welfare and low-wage markets, workfare forces welfare recipients, including single mothers with young children, to work outside of the home in exchange for their welfare checks. More importantly, workfare provides an “underclass” of labor that is trapped in jobs that pay minimum wage. This “underclass” is characteristically gendered and racialized, and the book builds on these insights and seeks to illuminate a crucial but largely overlooked aspect of the negative impact of workfare on black single mother welfare recipients. The stereotype of the “underclass,” which is infused with racial meaning, is used to describe and illustrate the position of black single mother welfare recipients and is an implicit way of talking about poor women with an invidious racist and sexist subtext, which Pinder suggests is one of the ways in which “gendered racism” presents itself in the United States. Ultimately, the book analyzes the intersectionality of race, gender, and class in terms of welfare policy reform in the United States.
      Format: Paperback / softback CONTRIBUTORS: Sherrow O. Pinder EAN: 9781498538985 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 345 g HEIGHT: 220 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Lexington Books DATE PUBLISHED: 2020-06-30 CITY: GENRE: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity WIDTH: 153 cm SPINE:

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      Relating to African American / Black American people, Society and culture: general, Social classes, Ethnic studies, Social welfare and social services, Central / national / federal government policies, Human rights, civil rights, Social and cultural history

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      Sherrow O. Pinder is professor of political science and multicultural and gender studies at California State University, Chico.

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