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“A
brilliant film about poverty, welfare reform, and the spirit of
the people who suffer both. We will become a better country, with
better policies, if every American sees this.”
—Frances
Fox Piven, Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology,
City University of New York Graduate School, Author of “Regulating
the Poor”
“A
Day’s Work, A Day’s Pay features workfare participants
who refused to take the brutality of welfare reform lying down.
Drawing almost exclusively on the typically unheard voices of recipients,
this beautiful film offers an amazingly authentic picture of workfare
and the people who struggle against it. This compelling story of
brave low income individuals organizing effectively for social change
should not be missed.”
—Mimi Abramovitz, Professor of Social Policy, Hunter
College School of Social Work and the Graduate Center of the City
University of New York, Author of “Regulating The Lives of
Women: Social Welfare Policy From Colonial Times To the Present”
and “Under Attack, Fighting Back: Women and Welfare in the
United States”
“This
remarkable film is about mean social policy and the impressive efforts
of grassroots organizations to fight back. Documentaries often fail
to tell both the human story and the political story. A Day’s
Work, A Day’s Pay tells both.”
—Peter Edelman, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law
Center
“A
Day's Work, A Day's Pay has been effective in helping my law students
grasp how badly the Welfare system treats the working poor. Students
referred back to the film as a seminal moment in the seminar, and
drew on it frequently to illustrate and understand other material
in the seminar. It's a winner.”
—Frank Munger, Professor of Law, New York Law School, Author
of “Working Below the Line: The New Ethnography of Poverty,
Low-Wage Work and Survival in the Global Economy”
“A
Day’s Work, A Day’s Pay is a beautifully crafted and
moving film of the struggles of welfare recipients in New York City
as they confront oppressive administrative practices and inadequate
economic assistance. I have shown it to my Graduate Social Work
students in “Social Policy” and undergraduate students
in the Liberal Education course “Race, Class and Gender in
the United States”. Both groups were stimulated to participate
in concerned and critical discussions.”
—Marek Fuller MSW, MA, Instructor, Department of Social Work
University of Minnesota, Duluth and Community Organizer, Low Income
and Welfare Recipients, East Hillside Patch Program, Duluth, Minnesota
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