Workfare as the forced free labor of social benefit recipients

Le workfare ou la mise au travail gratuit des allocataires de l’aide sociale

Maud Simonet ()
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Maud Simonet: IDHES - Institutions et Dynamiques Historiques de l'Économie et de la Société - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - UP8 - Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis - UPN - Université Paris Nanterre - UEVE - Université d'Évry-Val-d'Essonne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - ENS Paris Saclay - Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay

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Abstract: After presenting the historical stages of the welfare reform and its moral, gendered, and racist foundations, this paper shows how the institutionalization of workfare, this unpaid and coerced form of labor, blurs the frontiers of wage labor and participates in a new regulation of the labor market that both devalues work and makes it invisible.

Date: 2021
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Published in Regards croisés sur l'économie, 2021, Rémunérer le travail, 27, pp.184-193. ⟨10.3917/rce.027.0184⟩

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DOI: 10.3917/rce.027.0184

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