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. Cover......Page 1 Table of Contents......Page 8 List of Figures......Page 10 List of Tables......Page 12 List of Acronyms......Page 14 Acknowledgments......Page 16 1 Book Overview: Responding to Need in Diverse State Settings......Page 18 2 Linking Welfare Caseworker Decision Making to State Institutions......Page 36 3 Welfare Caseworkers in California, the United States: Eligibility Technicians and the Regulation of Desert......Page 54 4 Welfare Caseworkers in Bremen, Germany: Entitlement Scholars in a Highly Regulated State......Page 74 5 Welfare Caseworkers in Malmö, Sweden: Social Workers and the Consultation Culture......Page 98 6 Welfare-to-Work Caseworkers in California, the United States: Institutionalizing the Search for Employment......Page 122 7 Welfare-to-Work Caseworkers in Bremen, Germany: Resource Brokering into Vocational Training and the Secondary Labor Market......Page 144 8 Welfare-to-Work Caseworkers in Malmö, Sweden: The Emergence of Individualized Employment Services in Municipal Activation Agencies......Page 168 9 Comparing Welfare Administration in the Three Worlds of Social Welfare......Page 196 Appendix: Interview Data......Page 216 Notes......Page 222 References......Page 244 B......Page 254 C......Page 255 F......Page 256 J......Page 257 M......Page 258 R......Page 259 S......Page 260 U......Page 261 W......Page 262 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