Feminist representation(s) of women living on welfare: the case of workfare and the erosion of volunteer time *.

THE NEO-LIBERAL STATE'S RESTRUCTURING of major public policies has impacted powerfully on the relationship between the state and civil society. Of the many economic and social transformations generateed by this restructuring, there is individual that has reconfigured the intermediary manner of makings that were put in place through government institutions and segments of the community sector during the welfare-state era. This picture becomes abundant more complicated when one takes into account in what way the meaning of the work performed within community clusters and women's groups has shifted during the last decade owed to the introduction of public policies of that kind as workfare. By requesting