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almahu_9949767559702882
Format:
1 online resource (191 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781447367079
Content:
This book offers Ireland's introduction of a welfare-to-work market as a case study that speaks to wider international debates in social and public policy about the role of market governance in intensifying the turn towards more regulatory and conditional welfare models on the ground.
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Front Cover -- The Marketisation of Welfare-to-Work in Ireland: Governing Activation at the Street-Level -- Copyright information -- Table of Contents -- List of figures and tables -- List of abbreviations -- About the author -- Acknowledgements -- One Introduction -- A street-level perspective -- Why Ireland? -- The 'activation turn' in social policy -- Human capital versus workfare models of activation -- The governance turn towards marketisation -- Quasi-markets in employment services -- Varieties of quasi-markets -- Towards 'double activation' -- Two Welfare reform in post-crisis Ireland -- Ireland's 'pre-crisis' welfare state -- Austerity and activation -- Payment cuts, sanctions, and conditionality -- Widening conditionality -- Administrative and governance reform -- The death of FÁS -- Local Employment Services -- Enter JobPath -- Creeping marketisation -- Three Exploring double activation -- 'Double activation' as an analytical lens -- The GAII study -- Frontline workers -- Policy practitioners -- Service-users -- Intersects between workfare and marketisation -- Commodification -- Governing (knaves) at a distance -- Note -- Four Workfare meets marketisation -- Demanding activation -- Demanding time -- Demanding compliance -- Enabling activation -- Work-first versus human capital development -- Work experience, training, and education -- Five Remodelling agency at the street-level -- Performance measurement and the politics of discretion -- 'Supervised' discretion -- Targets and outcomes measurement -- 'Unseen' work -- Commodified performance -- The politics of professionalism -- 'Professionalism' in activation work -- From quasi-marketisation to de-skilling? -- Occupational fragmentation -- From qualifications to dispositions -- Six Conclusion -- The Irish case -- Connecting workfare and marketisation -- Does workfare work? -- References.
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Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: McGann, Michael The Marketisation of Welfare-To-Work in Ireland Bristol : Policy Press,c2023
Language:
English
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