SWP 402 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Precarious Work, Intersectionality, Pink-Collar Worker
21 Mar 2016
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Normaive professional, set standard (below in need) Perceived what people want what they feel they need. Expressed demand to have need met (although need may exist, may go un- Relaive comparison with one already receiving the service. Shit from universalism, standardizaion, uniformity to paricularism, fragmentaion & targeted. Myth of value neutral policy (ex. system is gender & colour blind) Less suscepible to cutbacks than selecive programs, especially for the poor. Waists money providing for those not in need . Promotes sameness & lacks response to diversity. No such thing as one uniied ciizen or community . Assumes everyone equal/fair system but some more equal than others. I. e. feminizaion of poverty, representaion in criminal jusice, immigraion & race/ethnicity, heteronormaivity in welfare, myth of separaion of state & religion, etc. Fraser (1987) - analyical framework for understanding how social needs are interpreted. The poliics of need interpretaion interpreing people"s need is itself a poliical act.
