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Inventing the Needy: Gender and the Politics of Welfare in by Lynne Haney

By Lynne Haney

Inventing the Needy offers a robust, cutting edge research of welfare rules and practices in Hungary from 1948 to the decade of the 20 th century. utilizing a compelling mixture of archival, interview, and ethnographic facts, Lynne Haney exhibits that 3 particular welfare regimes succeeded each other in the course of that interval and they have been in line with divergent conceptions of want. The welfare society of 1948-1968 specified social associations, the maternalist welfare country of 1968-1985 exact social teams, and the liberal welfare nation of 1985-1996 distinct impoverished contributors. simply because they mirrored contrasting conceptions of gender and of state-recognized identities, those 3 regimes led to dramatically diverse lived reviews of welfare.
Haney's method bridges the gaps in scholarship that regularly separate earlier and current, ideology and fact, and country guidelines and native practices. A wealth of case histories gleaned from the information of welfare associations brings to lifestyles the interactions among caseworkers and consumers and the methods they replaced over the years. in a single of her such a lot provocative findings, Haney argues that girl clients' skill to take advantage of the country to guard themselves in daily life lowered over the fifty-year interval. because the welfare procedure moved clear of linking entitlement to clients' social contributions and towards their fabric deprivation, the welfare approach, and people linked to it, grew to become more and more stigmatized and pathologized. With its specialise in moving innovations of the needy, this extensive ancient ethnography brings new insights to the learn of welfare kingdom conception and politics.

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In early socialism, clients maneuvered to negotiate their many social responsibilities. Their strategies were thus integrative in nature: they utilized state resources to become embedded in work and family structures. As the maternalist welfare state narrowed its focus to women’s child rearing, female clients’ maneuvering became more constrained. Their strategies then took on an expansive quality: they struggled to draw into view the larger context in which they mothered and to reengage state actors in their domestic relations.

Qxd 20 1/31/02 / 2:35 PM Page 20 Introduction Table 2. Overview of Case-File Sample by Topic and Period (by percentage of caseload) Welfare Society (1948–1968) Maternalist Welfare State (1968–1985) I. Work-Related A. Needed work B. Needed better work C. Needed better work relations 47% 60 23 17 32% 17 77 6 21% 84 14 2 II. Family-Related A. Spousal problem B. Parental problem C. Extended-family problem 69 27 41 32 81 19 76 5 13 31 69 — III. Poverty-Related A. Inappropriate housing B. Insufficient wages C.

These included benefits-in-kind such as socialized healthcare, housing, childcare, and eating facilities, as well as benefits-in-cash such as family and marital allowances. These policies were connected by their focus on social institutions as the site of the allocation of state resources. The societal-welfare model also included a network of local agencies, the Gyámhatóság. These institutions operated out of district councils throughout the country. Staffed by a small group of caseworkers, these agencies intervened into everyday life to ensure clients’ welfare by integrating them into work and family institutions.

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