Work Requirements: Race, Disability, and the Print Culture of Social Welfare Carmody Todd
Work Requirements: Race, Disability, and the Print Culture of Social Welfare Carmody Todd Throughout the history of the United States, work-based social welfare practices have served to affirm the…
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Work Requirements: Race, Disability, and the Print Culture of Social Welfare Carmody Todd
Throughout the history of the United States, work-based social welfare practices have served to affirm the moral value of work. In Work Requirements Todd Carmody asks how work, even the most debasing or unproductive labor, came to be seen as inherently meaningful during this era. In the late nineteenth century this representational project came to be mediated by the printed word with the emergence of industrial print technologies, the expansion of literacy, and the rise of professionalization.
He also outlines how disability itself He explores how the print culture of social welfare--produced by public administrators, by economic planners, by social scientists, and in literature and the arts--tasked people on the social and economic margins, specifically racial minorities, incarcerated people, and people with disabilities, with shoring up the fundamental dignity of work as such.
Social Welfare and Social Value
Race, Culture and Media
Social Work and Poverty