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Topic: Workfare

	Evidence Is Scant That Workfare Leads to Full-Time Jobs
		Workfare, the mayor often says, has also taught some welfare recipients lessons about the ennobling value of work and the responsibility of contributing to society.
		Where workfare leads is a matter of growing urgency as welfare recipients for the first time face being cut off the rolls under new state and federal laws.
		Workfare in New York dates back to the administration of Mayor Ed Koch in the mid-1980s, when the city began requiring some welfare recipients to choose from a mix of training programs, high school equivalency classes or work experience in city agencies.
	www.duke.edu /~ldbaker/clippings/ny-workfare.html (3071 words)

	WORKFARE TO WAGES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Workfare workers are not recognized as employees, receive no health benefits, sick or vacation days, have no grievance procedure, and can be dropped from the program for 30-90 days if they are more than ten minutes late to a job site.
		Workfare workers can, and often do, work for years in the same department and still be deemed unqualified for an entry-level position.
		Many workfare workers who apply for jobs at their work site are told that the portion of the job they do doesn't count toward the minimum requirements, or that they haven't worked long enough to qualify.
	arc.org /gripp/researchPublications/publications/POWER/powerPg02.html (1061 words)

	Workfare in International Perspective:
		Workfare has always been a politically charged term and has fallen into political disrepute in all the countries covered here and over the last decade it has most frequently been used as a term of abuse by those who oppose policies which they perceive to be eroding rights-based entitlement to assistance (Shragge 1997).
		Despite their differences, workfare programmes face a common set of problems that emanate directly from the fact that they are compulsory, work based and targeted on a population facing formidable barriers to work.
		If workfare policies continue to be expanded then it is probable that they will increasingly be used to target recipients who have greater and greater barriers to work, and who, in an earlier era, would have been considered unable to (or incapable of) work.
	www.warwick.ac.uk /fac/soc/complabstuds/confsem/Trickey.htm (2201 words)

	Dole Autonomy versus the Re-imposition of Work: Analysis of the Current Tendency to Workfare in the UK
		Workfare is being introduced in the UK, not because the unemployed have become 'acquiescent', but because a potentially powerful opposition prefers - misguidedly in our view - to fight over other issues or to seek individual solutions, rather than to defend the conditions that make some of their campaigns and activities possible.
		The current tendency to introduce workfare as part of dealing with the welfare 'problem' in the UK is a political-economic expression of the current retreat of social democracy (which is the other side of the coin of the advance of 'neo-liberalism').
		The present inclination to workfare is the logical expression of capital's current requirement to re-negotiate that settlement: to restrict welfare and to keep down wages through labour market competition; attacking the entrenched autonomy of dole-life is a vital part of this re-negotiation.
	www.geocities.com /aufheben2/dole.html (16213 words)

	PhpWiki - Workfare Slavery
		The main purpose of workfare, in the opinion of most analysts, is to provide a pool of cheap labour for employers rather than to help those on welfare or reduce welfare costs.
		The workfare workers are also denied the right to join or form unions, and are not even covered by minimum labour standards legislation.
		Workfare also violates Article 6 of the United Nations International Covenant on Economic and Social Rights, to which Canada is a signatory.
	www.pnews.org /PhpWiki/index.php/WorkfareSlavery (2912 words)

	9 characteristics of the New Inequality in Europe
		The wave of new workfare projects in Europe since the 1990's, are a similar rejection of the ideal of equality.
		Workfare is local: the unemployed must work in their own region.
		Workfare projects do not allow the unemployed to work in health care in Africa, or on peace projects in Bosnia.
	web.inter.nl.net /users/Paul.Treanor/new.ineq.html (2359 words)

	workfare - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about workfare
		Scheme in which the long-term unemployed, in return for welfare payments, are required to undergo either skills training or work, in jobs supported by state subsidy or in community-service activities.
		Developed by right-wing economists in the USA during the 1980s, workfare seeks to end welfare dependency and to re-establish individual responsibility.
		Initially tried in a number of US states, notably Wisconsin, workfare was the key principle behind the 1996 US federal welfare reforms which, with the threat of a loss of benefits after two years, led to a sharp drop in welfare recipients.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /workfare (205 words)

	Workfare vs. Fair Work
		Workfare is for welfare recipients and assumes that only lack of motivation, not lack of jobs or lack of child care, keeps welfare recipients out of paid employment.
		Workfare, which has proliferated since the early 1980s, forces relief recipients to do additional work outside the home in order to remain eligible for welfare.
		Because workfare increases the number of job seekers without increasing the number of jobs, it tends to further depress wages, standards, and security for millions of workers and weaken unions.
	www.njfac.org /us16.htm (3423 words)

	Workfare -- Slave Labor U.S. Style
		Workfare slave labor is one more fascist weapon in the bosses' arsenal to prepare us for a war to save their profit system.
		Workfare slave labor jobs will become the future jobs for our youth, whether imprisoned in the regular jails or in the workplace concentration camp of workfare.
		Workfare slave labor is a product of capitalism in crisis, another way the bosses hope to lay the burden of their insoluble crisis on the backs of the working class.
	www.plp.org /pamphlets/workfare.html (2790 words)

	WORKFARE
		The underlying assumption of workfare is that individuals should not receive financial assistance from the state unless they are prepared to work or to participate in programs leading to employment.
		The intent of workfare programs is to reduce the number of individuals receiving social assistance by placing them into employment.
		Advocates argue that workfare programs provide the unemployed with training or education thereby enhancing their ability to work and to become self supporting citizens.
	www.cassw-acess.ca /xassoc/workfare.htm (841 words)

	Labor Politics - #29 Sep/Oct 97 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Workfare participants are not actually paid a wage but instead continue to receive their welfare benefits in exchange for fulfilling their required work allotment.
		As a result, the workfare "wage equivalent" varies depending upon the size of the welfare grant (which vary state by state) and the required work hours (the federal guidelines constitute a floor, not a ceiling upon how many hours can be required).
		Those workfare participants who manage to find "real work" (non-workfare) will be constantly menaced by the possibility that they too might be replaced by a cheap and docile workfare participant.
	www.washingtonfreepress.org /29/First.html (1145 words)

	Treatment of Food Stamps Under Workfare Requirements for Purposes of Benefit Entitlement
		If the workfare requirements are fulfilled by the equivalent of five days of work per month or less, it would seem to have little effect, if any, upon a claimant's availability and fulfillment of the active search for work requirements, unless the workfare is concentrated in a week.
		Notice of proposed rulemaking on the workfare requirements was published by the Department of Agriculture on June 8, 1982, 47 FR 24968.
		SESAs are requested to apprise themselves of workfare requirements and practices in their States and to determine, under their respective State laws, the effect of workfare participation upon benefit eligibility and entitlement.
	workforcesecurity.doleta.gov /dmstree/uipl/uipl82/uipl_3182.htm (644 words)

	WORKFARE AND THE NON-PROFITS
		Although the new welfare law allows but does not require states to have a workfare program, workfare is expected to expand nationwide, placing new pressures on nonprofit agencies to increase their workfare participation This fact sheet highlights some of the dilemmas that non-profit agencies can be expected to face.
		The belief that non-profit workfare slots are "better" than public agency assignments rests on two faulty assumptions: (1) that non-profits give recipients white and pink collar rather than blue collar placements; and (2) that filing paper and answering phones is uplifting, while de-littering the parks is demeaning and degrading.
		Workfare and other work requirements are flooding the labor market with droves of hungry people, making it easier for employers to depress wages and harder for unions to negotiate good contracts for any low-paid worker.
	www.sullivan-county.com /id2/workfare_myth.htm (4030 words)

	OPS: Workfare
		It’s become workfare, a program that punishes people in need and provides a pool of cheap labour to threaten and undermine union jobs.
		Workfare should be particularly offensive to OPSEU members.
		If workfare placements receive the training over our members, it closes off another chance for our members to stay in the OPS and get trained for a better job.
	www.opseu.org /ops/workfare/workfare.htm (729 words)

	ACORN Workfare Grievance
		Workfare workers, as you know, are welfare recipients placed into work assignments, primarily with the City, the County, and non-profits, in order to continue to receive welfare benefits.
		The Workfare Project participant may continue to work at their assigned project site during the grievance process or may request to be assigned to a different worksite.
		The Workfare Project participant is encouraged to informally discuss his/her grievance with the Workfare Project Supervisor/Foreman in an attempt to settle the grievance (see Section 6.2B for Exception).
	www.lincproject.org /organizing/newsletters/LINChotnews/raw/acorn/letter.htm (2115 words)

	Workfare V1I1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Workfare programs can be very narrow - a requirement to perform unpaid work of some kind in exchange for welfare - or they can offer genuine opportunities for training, upgrading and access to jobs which many people on welfare want.
		But if workfare produces goods and services that we want, either paid workers are losing their jobs, or the rest of us are getting a free ride - goods and services we value, but not paying a proper wage for them.
		Workfare tries to focus the causes of crisis on individuals and their supposed flaws, and away from the root causes of poverty and unemployment.
	www.welfarewatch.toronto.on.ca /wrkfrw/wrkwtch1.htm (5279 words)

	The Workfare Watch Project and the Ontario Social Safety NetWork (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This Workfare Watch Bulletin examines how the provincial government's use of the language of "dependency" and focus on the size of the caseload has helped to shape perceptions of social assistance recipients and narrows the goals of welfare reform to only one: caseload reductions.
		Workfare Watch is a joint project of the Community Social Planning Council of Toronto and the Ontario Social Safety NetWork.
		It was established in 1996 to monitor and report on the implementation of workfare policies in Ontario and their impact.
	www.welfarewatch.toronto.on.ca (324 words)

	Work Is Moral and So Is Workfare (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In fact, those who accept workfare assignments are receiving payment-in the form of welfare benefits.
		The clergy members and leaders of nonprofit groups who insist that they would be "slave drivers" if they employ people on workfare obscure the fact that recipients are not actually forced to take the jobs the city assigns them.
		Workfare can also pose difficulties for single mothers, who need to find care for their children.
	www.acton.org /ppolicy/editorials/sirico/workfare.html (655 words)

	Workfare Marchers
		Representing 25 organizations, they are calling for changes in the County's Workfare program, specifically in the areas of job creation, training for the former welfare recipients, and child care.
		With the number of people going from welfare to workfare, numbering anywhere from 150,000 to 200,000, there simply may not be enough jobs to go around.
		Anna Menses, Steward of SEIU local 660, notes that Workfare people may be working with department county workers, who may be scapegoated and have Workfare workers used against them.
	www.cridder.com /glue/4-8-98/workfare.html (729 words)

	Online NewsHour Forum: Is Workfare Slavery -- August 6, 1997 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Is not the proposed "workfare" revolution simply a return to the basic premise of the original programs: to provide the worker with the pride of a job and to allow unemployed to learn job skills necessary for survival?
		Bowling gives the best possible case for workfare: it builds the work ethic where it has atrophied, and it imparts the pride that comes with working and accomplishing a goal.
		Neither should modern workfare become an excuse for the government to merely employ more people in its own ranks, doing work only the government thinks is important (as versus what really is important).
	www.pbs.org /newshour/forum/august97/welfare3.html (606 words)

	Alternative to Workfare
		Workfare as presently organized in New York and other locations does nothing seriously to advance the economic status or standard of living of those forced to rely upon it.
		Workfare workers have tried to get the City to use its resources to help employ them in the public or private sector.
		Without a comprehensive federal alternative to workfare (including public works and child care), there will be "a competitive race at the state and local level to shed financial responsibility" for those needing income support.
	www.webcom.com /ncecd/workforcealternative.html (10365 words)

	Amazon.fr : Workfare States : Livres en anglais (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		He is equally devastating on attempts to develop workfare states in Canada and Britain.
		He traces workfare as a political and ideological project, from its origins in 'welfare to work' experiments starting in the Reagan years, to the radical U.S. welfare legislation of 1996, and then to the creation of a new global regulatory model that is already reshaping welfare in Canada, the UK and beyond.
		He makes a convincing argument that workfare is not only a reaction but also a putative successor to the welfare state.
	www.amazon.fr /exec/obidos/ASIN/157230636X (967 words)

	Workfare - Shelley Martel (May 10/01)
		I'd like the government to track how many of those people who left the welfare rolls are single moms with kids who actually returned to an abusive relationship because the money they were getting on social assistance was not enough to support their families.
		So what you set up is a really vicious cycle of workfare recipients being brought in, working for a period of time in a private sector place of employment, and being let go so the employer can turn around and start it all again.
		You've got the scenario now where in many municipalities workfare recipients are going to the top of the subsidized waiting list ahead of other working parents who have been sitting, waiting for child care.
	www.canadiansocialresearch.net /smartel.htm (1945 words)

	Results for Workfare (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Monitors and reports on the implementation of workfare policies in Ontario and their impact.
		Workfare Watch - !http://www.welfarewatch.toronto.on.ca/ Monitors and reports on the implementation of workfare policies in Ontario and their impact.
		In fact, those who accept workfare assignments are receiving payment-in the form...
	www.casimiro.com /buscar/search/Workfare (164 words)

	Welfare-to-Work Transition
		Although the concept of moving welfare recipients into the workforce may be hailed as a revolutionary idea for reforming welfare, "workfare" has existed at different levels across a variety of states and within federal legislation for many years.
		These programs were are aimed at providing job skills, education, and employment opportunities for welfare recipients through a systems approach which recognizes the affect federal, state, and local policies have on neighborhoods, families, and individuals (Vosler and Ozawa, 1992).
		Mandatory job-search followed by short-term workfare in San Diego produced a 6% increase in employment for women and nearly a 23% increase over the control group in average earnings for those in the experimental group.
	www.hec.ohio-state.edu /famlife/bulletin/volume.1/bull14a.htm (1901 words)

	Archives: Welfare-Workfare-State
		Viggo: Here we arrive at another test of your thesis that Workfare is not about work or contributing to the GNP but about compulsion or population control.
		If Workfare were really about work and contributing to GNP any reasonable person would expect that the powers that be would encourage or at least enable enterprising Workfarers to form their own organizations or associations to be self-employed doing workfare and maybe even to attain the holy grail of capitalism - a profit, someday.
		Encouraging-enabling would include plain language documents or advisory services on how to register your own Workfare company or association etc. In Ontario the scope of who can hire Workfarers is becoming so broad now that it would seem to include everyone but welfare recipients.
	www-pluto.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de /~also/welar321.htm (609 words)

	Workfare workers plan mass jobs march in New York Aug. 22 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Calling for "Dignity, respect, and real jobs, not workfare," New York City workfare participants are planning a massive march on Saturday, Aug. 22.
		Workfairness, the organizers of the march, predict it will be the largest-ever protest of workfare workers and people on welfare.
		Organizers say that the Aug. 22 march is the beginning of a national movement to overturn workfare, and an opportunity to rally the many communities and sectors in New York who have come under attack by the mayor.
	www.iacenter.org /thursday.htm (579 words)

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