Society, Politics & Law
Remaking the relations of work and welfare
...caring for their children. [Figure 2] Figure 2: Tamarla Owens The US ‘workfare’ programmes (as they are often known) of the 1990s have been celebrated as successes and taken-up as profitable private enterprises by firms as prestigious as Lockheed Martin, the giant armaments manufacturer, which runs many of them. The Temporary Aid for Needy Families Programme was...