Description
| Product ID: | 9781478018070 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Work Requirements |
| Subtitle: | Race, Disability, and the Print Culture of Social Welfare |
| Authors: | Author: Todd Carmody |
| Page Count: | 328 |
| Subjects: | Social and cultural history, Social & cultural history, Disability: social aspects, Ethnic studies, Disability: social aspects, Ethnic studies |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Todd Carmody explores how the idea that work is inherently meaningful was reinforced and tasked to those who lived on the margins and needed assistance during nineteenth-century America. Throughout the history of the United States, work-based social welfare practices have served to affirm the moral value of work. 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. 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. 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. He also outlines how disability itself became a tool of social discipline, defined by bureaucratized institutions as the inability to work. By interrogating the representational effort necessary to make work seem inherently meaningful, Carmody ultimately reveals a forgotten history of competing efforts to think social belonging beyond or even without work. |
| Imprint Name: | Duke University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Duke University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-08-05 |
