Agents of the welfare state : how caseworkers respond to need in the united states, germany, ... and sweden

We have developed an organization here in which a single case worker is Have Globalization Pressures And Neo-liberal Ideas Led To Convergence In How Countries Respond To Welfare Claimants? Through Ethnographic Case Studies Of Social Assistance Offices In The United States, Germany And Sweden, Agents Of The Welfare State Demonstrates Persistent Diversity In How States Structure Needs Assessment And Activation Efforts, Contrasting A Bureaucratic, Flat-grant System In The U.s., With German And Swedish Programs In Which Individualized Assessment Is A Core Organizational Task. It Shows How Responsiveness In These European Programs Is Institutionalized Through Nationally Distinct Legal Foundations, Professional Traditions, And Resource Networks, While Revealing How Resource Scarcities Threaten To Erode These Capabilities. Book Overview: Responding To Need In Diverse State Settings -- Linking Welfare Caseworker Decision-making To State Institutions -- Welfare Caseworkers In California, The United States: Eligibility Technicians And The Regulation Of Desert -- Welfare Caseworkers In Bremen, Germany: Entitlement Scholars In A Highly Regulated State -- Welfare Caseworkers In Malm̲, Sweden. Social Workers And The Consultation Culture -- Welfare-to-work Caseworkers In California, The United States. Institutionalizing The Search For Employment -- Welfare-to-work Caseworkers In Bremen, Germany: Resource Brokering Into Vocational Training And The Secondary Labor Market -- Welfare-to-work Caseworkers In Malm̲, Sweden: The Emergence Of Individualized Employment Services In Municipal Activation Agencies -- Comparing Welfare Administration In The Three Worlds Of Social Welfare. Christopher J. Jewell. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [227]-236) And Index. This book shows how responsiveness in European welfare programs is institutionalized through nationally distinct legal foundations, professional traditions, and resource networks, while revealing how resource scarcities threaten to erode these capabilities. This book shows how responsiveness in European welfare programs is institutionalized through nationally distinct legal foundations, professional traditions, and resource networks, while revealing how resource scarcities threaten to erode these capabilities