"Workfare et judiciarisation: nouveau regime de regulation morale dans la vie des femmes assistees sociales.".

Michaud, Jacinthe. "Workfare et judiciarisation: nouveau regime de regulation morale dans la vie des femmes assistees sociales." Canadian Woman Studies/ les cahiers de la femrne. Special Issue: Benefiting Women? Women's Labour Rights, vol. 23, nos. 3/4 (Spring/Summer 2004), pp. 41-48.

This article focuses on one particular aspect of the welfare system: the role that regulates the cohabitation of welfare recipients with another person. 'Ontario Works' renews the old moral regulation of single mothers living on welfare, contributing to their poverty and insecurity. This new regime of moral regulation is called 'judicialization'. In the last section, the article will look at a case of a single mother whose battle with the welfare system--in a context of violence--is a good example of the 'judicialization' of women's lives. (Journal abstract)

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Title Annotation:	WORK AND EMPLOYMENT/TRAVAIL ET EMPLOI
Publication:	Resources for Feminist Research
Article Type:	Abstract
Geographic Code:	1CANA
Date:	Mar 22, 2006
Words:	129
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