Temporary employment experiences of women on welfare

Heinrich, Carolyn J.

doi:10.1007/s12122-005-1029-x

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“…Though not protected by the status of a permanent employee or the opportunity to unionize, welfare-to-work staff certainly do not fit into the paradigm of contingent and temp workers situated in the low-wage secondary labor market (Barley and Kunda 2004;Heinrich 2005;Simmons 2002). In Regal County, as in many locations nationwide, welfare reform was accompanied by new flows of money that have provisioned welfare-to-work with comparatively lavish office space and the fiscal ability to treat employees well (Hays 2003).…”

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“…Recent research (see Heinrich 2005) has identified women with recent participation in public welfare as comprising a disproportionate and growing share of temporary employees. This is in large part due to recent changes in welfare policy.…”

Section: Welfare Reform's Clients and The Rise Of Poor Women In Contimentioning

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“…In a sample of welfare recipients Heinrich (2005) found that 40.5% were working with temporary help firms and more than two thirds were dissatisfied with their employment benefits-only approximately 8% received medical insurance or vacation or holiday pay. She also noted chronic job instability.…”

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Contingent Government Workers and Labor Solidarity: The Case of Contract Welfare-to-Work Staff and Their Clients

Ridzi

2007

Qual Sociol

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Contemporary US labor solidarity faces new opportunities and challenges in the midst of global economic and governmental restructuring. Indicative of these changes the 1996 welfare reform has created a new brand of contingent government contract workers to implement welfare-to-work while simultaneously fostering contingent work among welfare clients. In this paper I use ethnographic data from a major city in New York State to explore the relative positioning of these labor groups and I ask whether contingent government workers could mediate between organized labor and welfare recipients, thereby facilitating political collaboration. I conclude by identifying considerable structural and interpersonal barriers to solidarity including lack of contingent worker consciousness, difference in "skill" levels, antagonistic relationships with clients and a tendency to interpret client hardships in terms of personal defects. I contrast these findings with instances where labor unions have become involved in welfare issues and propose steps toward a new paradigm for labor solidarity.

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Contingent Government Workers and Labor Solidarity: The Case of Contract Welfare-to-Work Staff and Their Clients

Ridzi

2007

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“…Some exceptions, although focusing on the U.S. experience, are the study by Bansak and Amuedo-Dorantes (2003) examining the relationship between poverty and a variety of contingent work arrangements using the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79), 14 the analysis of a Michigan welfare-to-work program by Autor and Houseman (2006), and the studies on contingent work and welfare dependency by Heinrich (2005) and Heinrich et al (2005) using data on North Carolina and Missouri. Nonetheless, the regulation and magnitude of temporary employment in Spain make the study of any poverty implications of fixed-term employment in this country of special interest.…”

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Labor market flexibility and poverty dynamics

Amuedo‐Dorantes

Serrano-Padial

2010

Labour Economics

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“…In recent years, state governments have relied on temporary agencies as sources of employment for welfare recipients . In a study, Heinrich (2005) examined the populations of welfare recipients in Missouri and North Carolina . She reported that the number of welfare recipients working at jobs in the temporary help services sector doubled between 1993 and 1997 (Heinrich, 2005, p .…”

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a look into the temporary employment industry and its workers

Kirk

Belovics

2008

Journal of Employment Couns

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This article offers a brief overview of the contingent worker industry and its employees. In addition to defining temporary worker, the authors describe the importance of the temporary worker industry to the U.S. economy and the forces that have driven this industry's rapid growth. The changing profile of temporary workers, the benefits and drawbacks of temporary work, and ways employment counselors can help clients make the best use of temporary work arrangements are also discussed.

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Temporary employment experiences of women on welfare

Cited by 12 publications

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Contingent Government Workers and Labor Solidarity: The Case of Contract Welfare-to-Work Staff and Their Clients

Contingent Government Workers and Labor Solidarity: The Case of Contract Welfare-to-Work Staff and Their Clients

Labor market flexibility and poverty dynamics

a look into the temporary employment industry and its workers

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