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DESCRIPTION:"Work as unto the Lord:” Enhancing Employability in an Evangeli
 cal Job-Readiness Program.&nbsp\; Gretchen Purser\, Assistant Professor of
  Sociology and Brian Hennigan\, Ph.D. candidate in Geography. Description:
  The 1996 passage of welfare reform radically reshaped the principles and 
 practices of poverty management in the US. On the one hand\, it brought ab
 out an end to welfare as an entitlement and imposed rigid time limits\, wo
 rk requirements\, and a programmatic supply-sided focus on “job-readiness.
 ” On the other hand\, it permitted and promoted the expansion of faith-bas
 ed organizations in the provision of social services. This talk\, situated
  at the underexplored nexus of these two trends\, draws upon our collabora
 tive ethnographic case study of a prominent faith-based job-readiness prog
 ram. This program uses Biblical principles and teachings to expound on the
  moral irreproachability of work and to fabricate “employable” subjects wh
 o submit themselves to both God and the employer. At play is a project tha
 t we call the “righteous responsibilization” of the poor. We use this case
  to extend existing accounts of the impact and implications of religious n
 eoliberalism. Pizza will be served.&nbsp\;\n Follow us on Facebook @     \
 n    PARCCatMaxwell    \, tweet #ConvoInConflict. &nbsp\; &nbsp\;\n    \n
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SUMMARY:Conversations in Conflict Studies presents Gretchen Purser and Bria
 n Hennigan
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p></p><p></p><p><b>"Work as unto the Lord:” E
 nhancing Employability in an Evangelical Job-Readiness Program.</b>&nbsp\;
  <i>Gretchen Purser\,</i> Assistant Professor of Sociology and <i>Brian He
 nnigan</i>\, Ph.D. candidate in Geography. <br>Description: The 1996 passa
 ge of welfare reform radically reshaped the principles and practices of po
 verty management in the US. On the one hand\, it brought about an end to w
 elfare as an entitlement and imposed rigid time limits\, work requirements
 \, and a programmatic supply-sided focus on “job-readiness.” On the other 
 hand\, it permitted and promoted the expansion of faith-based organization
 s in the provision of social services. This talk\, situated at the underex
 plored nexus of these two trends\, draws upon our collaborative ethnograph
 ic case study of a prominent faith-based job-readiness program. This progr
 am uses Biblical principles and teachings to expound on the moral irreproa
 chability of work and to fabricate “employable” subjects who submit themse
 lves to both God and the employer. At play is a project that we call the “
 righteous responsibilization” of the poor. We use this case to extend exis
 ting accounts of the impact and implications of religious neoliberalism. <
 i>Pizza will be served.</i>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p> Follow us on Facebook @     \n
     <a title="&quot\;&amp\;quot\;PARCCatMaxwell&amp\;quot\;&quot\;">PARCCa
 tMaxwell</a>    \, tweet #ConvoInConflict. &nbsp\; &nbsp\;\n    <br>\n</p>
 <p></p><p></p>
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