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  • The Marketization of Employment Services

    The Dilemmas of Europe's Work-first Welfare States

    by Ian Greer, Karen N. Breidahl, Matthias Knuth, Flemming Larsen ...
    Across Europe, market mechanisms are spreading into areas where they did not exist before. In public administration, market governance is displacing other ways of coordinating public services. In social policy, the welfare state is retreating from its historic task of protecting citizens from the discipline of the market. In industrial relations, labor and management are negotiating with an eye to ... Read more

    $74.69 USD

  • Work and the Welfare State

    Street-Level Organizations and Workfare Politics

    by Evelyn Z. Brodkin, Gregory Marston, Michael Lipsky, Flemming Larsen, Susan Lambert, Julia Henly, Joe Soss, Sanford Schram, Richard Fording0, Celeste Watkins-Hayes1, Martin Brussig2, Matthias Knuth3, Michael Adler4, Vicki Lens5, Rik van Berkel6 ...
    Series series Public Management and Change series
    Work and the Welfare State places street-level organizations at the analytic center of welfare-state politics, policy, and management. This volume offers a critical examination of efforts to change the welfare state to a workfare state by looking at on-the-ground issues in six countries: the US, UK, Australia, Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands.An international group of scholars contribute ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Frontline Delivery of Welfare-to-Work Policies in Europe

    Activating the Unemployed

    Edited by Rik van Berkel, Dorte Caswell, Peter Kupka, Flemming Larsen ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Governance and Public Policy
    Welfare-to-work or activation policies refer to programmes aimed at promoting the employability, labour-market and social participation of benefit recipients of working age. Frontline workers delivering these policies are conceived of as policy implementers, as policy makers, and as actors mediating politics in an arena where conflicting interests are at stake. Frontline work plays a crucial role ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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