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Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Do Street-Level Bureaucracies Matter in a Post-Welfare Era? 1
1 Situated Bureaucrats: Locating Identity in Catch-All Bureaucracies 19
2 Not Everyone Has the Same Bag of Tricks: Identity Discord, Discretionary Toolkits, and Policymaking in a Changing Institution 49
3 Reinventing the Street-Level Welfare Bureaucrat? The Reformation of Professional Identities in Postreform Welfare Offices 82
4 Am I My Sister's Keeper? Race, Class, Gender, and Community in Staunton 123
5 Race, Place, and Politics: Negotiating Community and Diversity in Fishertown 156
6 Conclusion: The Crisis of Identity in Catch-All Bureaucracies 185
Appendix A Professional Identities in the Making: A History of the Profession of Welfare Casework 215
Appendix B Demographic Data 235
Appendix C Methodology 247
Notes 255
Works Cited 287
Index 309
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Liudmila Muysina De Quiros
reviewed The New Welfare Bureaucrats: Entanglements of Race, Class, and Policy Reform on February 14, 2012
The New Welfare Bureaucrats
Fascinating train wreck of a story, but my feminist sensibilities had a hard time allowing the author to lead such a life. She turned down a chance a real love to do what she thought god wanted. Strike one. Followed "signs" to lead her into what she knew would be a life of submission and silence. Strike two. Any children would also be prey. Strikes three, four, and five.
At the hands of men, she had decades full of heartbreak, broken promises, charismatic bullies and endless suffering under the pretense of it all being god's command. Religious brainwashing, faith, call it what you will, is not an excuse - for all of her yelling and screaming she didn't try to help herself until it was almost too late.
I just couldn't summon sympathy for her and was at times disgusted with her alternating tales of strength and weakness - "refused" to allow her husband another wife? Well, he did it anyway and she accepted it. Children malnourished because this husband was off working, marrying, etc. elsewhere? Oh well, she'll just beg and borrow food instead of holding the man who kept her helpless accountable. This ain't no "Big Love".
Compelling book, but the author? Well, she just pissed me off.
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