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Discussing by giving a central focus on The Public Workfare Program, which is introduced to public as a new method for eradicating unemployment or poverty, this study tries to apprehend it in its paradigm while accepting that it is not a distinct project. In this framework, initially the big picture is tried to be revealed; that is, in a way it tries to trace the changing features of the social state and its instruments. The position of the state is changing in the new period in the context of its relations with market. And it has already undergone a transformation towards being a facilitative, effective and compatible with market. This new period also leads to relinquish the traditional understanding of social policy and shift the paradigm of the discipline of social policy.Evoking English Poor Laws, a historical experience in struggling with poverty, The Public Workfare Program represents a turning back in struggling with poverty and unemployment in a historical sense. Carried on in Tunceli based on qualitative methods, this field research tries to describe The Public Workfare Program that has been restructured as a Turkish formulation of a paradigm that became widespread with the concept of workfare in the western countries

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