The Welfare System
To attain social justice, as proposed by feminist, professionals must “scrutinize and monitor gender, racial, ethical and other cultural-based assumptions and processes.” Without a doubt, the welfare system is a platform that interacts with and sustains all of those social determinates factors. Additional, the welfare system is one of the many social service structures in which the organization and working conditions stands as possible causes for this dilemma. These professionals all spoke from previous jobs experiences and at some point, in their professional journeys, they were exposed to the fragmentation of social service care: a heavy caseload, a feeling of never managing the day, no support from working team, or managers and the instability
in working teams. Second, it is very difficult for middle-class professionals to get accurate information about the gains and losses when he or she compares taxes and benefits. The lack of information (which is a systemic power dynamic issue), and if we add to that, uncertainty about the occupational future, are likely to change the basis upon which professional act and presume about the poor or needy people, even while rendering social services. These systemic fragmentations are obstacles to client care. Therefore, these professionals’ scrutinization and apprehension of the welfare systems could be presented as appropriate, valuable perspectives and purposeful in the movement for social justice.
Additionally, for the safety of the professional-client rapport and dynamic, it is imperative that these professionals not only securitize systems but themselves and their personal value system which governs unconscious actions and assumptions. This specific dissonance occurs when front-line workers are unable to observe or internalize their professional interactions and the multiculturalism and diverse situations amongst clients. The welfare system’s recipients represent unemployed Americans with mental or physical disabilities, does who are fit to work, but do not know English, those working but not earning a living wage, and then, those who are seeking jobs but have are not marketable or considered unemployable, mixture of all race, but mostly a particular gender: women
in working teams. Second, it is very difficult for middle-class professionals to get accurate information about the gains and losses when he or she compares taxes and benefits. The lack of information (which is a systemic power dynamic issue), and if we add to that, uncertainty about the occupational future, are likely to change the basis upon which professional act and presume about the poor or needy people, even while rendering social services. These systemic fragmentations are obstacles to client care. Therefore, these professionals’ scrutinization and apprehension of the welfare systems could be presented as appropriate, valuable perspectives and purposeful in the movement for social justice.
Additionally, for the safety of the professional-client rapport and dynamic, it is imperative that these professionals not only securitize systems but themselves and their personal value system which governs unconscious actions and assumptions. This specific dissonance occurs when front-line workers are unable to observe or internalize their professional interactions and the multiculturalism and diverse situations amongst clients. The welfare system’s recipients represent unemployed Americans with mental or physical disabilities, does who are fit to work, but do not know English, those working but not earning a living wage, and then, those who are seeking jobs but have are not marketable or considered unemployable, mixture of all race, but mostly a particular gender: women