0 in the US, a government scheme under which people who receive welfare (= money from the government) and are able to work must work
1 a government program under which people who receive welfare (= money from the government) and are able to work must work
2 in the US, a system that is based on the principle that unemployed people should only continue to get welfare (= money from the government) if they agree to do some work or to train for a job:
a workfare program
Indeed, the initial assessment of alternatives to workfare is a relevant prelude to rendering a comparative assessment of workfare itself.
Contemporary workfare initiatives are of course only the latest in a long list of attempts to link work and welfare.
Their incorporation both expanded federal assistance to the poor and helped solidify the workfare paradigm.
Many of the most standard ordinary social welfare programmes assume some other form of mutuality than that embodied in workfare.
In so doing, they are able to show that workfare is a considerably more complex and multifaceted entity than is commonly assumed.
Even workfare initiatives were primarily championed by policy advocates and experts.
This argument engages recent scholarship on workfare and on welfare state retrenchment.
In accomplishing this task so successfully, the editors have furnished us with a much-needed account of contemporary workfare arrangements in key welfare regimes.
