This article uses the concept of convenience as an analytical prompt to investigate how ideas about work organize a cash-based social assistance program financed through foreign aid. Productive Social Safety Nets (PSSN) is a nationwide program providing small regular payments to very poor households in Tanzania. Cash transfers as components of social assistance not predicated on working confront assumptions many Tanzanians share about the importance of work as foundational to self-reliance as the bedrock of personal and national development. The program uses existing architectures of community development to creatively combine Tanzanian values around poor people's responsibility for their own development with World Bank conceptualizations of social assistance as a productive investment. Ethnographic research at the interface between program implementors and beneficiaries provides insights into the attitudes many Tanzanians hold about development and their place in it and sheds light on the ambivalent feelings of insecure middle classes about changing forms of state-managed social assistance. Implementation involves an intricate orchestration of prescriptive ideals about labor, entitlement, and value organized around labor-intensive bureaucratic procedures, public works, and community sensitization sessions. Labor making and making visible different kinds of work characterize program implementation. Prevailing attitudes toward social assistance, and the class relations through which they are realized, are perpetuated through ostensibly novel programs.

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课堂作业：坦桑尼亚的现金转移和社区发展

本文使用便利的概念作为分析提示来调查有关工作的想法如何组织通过外援资助的以现金为基础的社会援助计划。生产性社会安全网 (PSSN) 是一项全国性计划，为坦桑尼亚的贫困家庭提供定期小额付款。作为不以工作为基础的社会援助组成部分的现金转移面对许多坦桑尼亚人的假设，即工作的重要性是自力更生的基础，是个人和国家发展的基石。该计划利用现有的社区发展架构，创造性地将坦桑尼亚价值观围绕穷人对自身发展的责任与世界银行将社会援助概念化为一种生产性投资的概念相结合。在计划实施者和受益者之间进行的人种学研究深入了解了许多坦桑尼亚人对发展的态度及其在发展中的地位，并揭示了不安全的中产阶级对改变国家管理的社会援助形式的矛盾情绪。实施涉及围绕劳动密集型官僚程序、公共工程和社区宣传会议组织的关于劳动、权利和价值的规定理想的复杂编排。劳动制作和使不同类型的工作可见是计划实施的特征。对社会援助的盛行态度，以及通过它们实现的阶级关系，通过表面上新颖的计划得以延续。