Selling welfare reform: work-first and the new common sense of employment

Acknowledgments

1. "Selling Work-First": Introduction

2. "You're All Doing the Wrong Thing": Innovation and Common Sense

3. "A New Way of Doing Business": Performance Measures, Rights, and Common Sense

4. New Technology and New Customers

5. "We Are a Thorn in the Side of Those Who Won't Change": Buying into Work-First

6. "Not Everybody Fits into Their Box": Work-First, Gender, Race, and Families

7. "Don't Blame Me, It Wasn't Up to Me!": Policy Recommendations from Everyday Experience

8. Conclusion: Envisioning "A New Common Sense"

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