Frank Ridzi: 2 books
Selling Welfare Reform
Work-First and the New Common Sense of Employment
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
The 1996 Welfare Reform Act promised to end welfare as we knew it. In Selling Welfare Reform, Frank Ridzi uses rich ethnographic detail to examine how new welfare-to-work policies, time limits, and citizenship documentation radically changed welfare, revealing what really goes on at the front lines...
Does Collective Impact Work?
What Literacy Coalitions Tell Us
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
The book seeks to demonstrate the ways in which collective impact approaches have guided the development of literacy coalitions over time. Since community collaboration strategies developed to address social issues, coalitions have grown from small networking organizations to powerful forces for change....