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Abramovitz, M. (1996) Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present (revised edition), Boston, MA, South End Press.Burghes, L. (1987) Made in the USA: A Review...
View Article8 Further resources
There is a wide range of material available on welfare to work. Peck (2001) is undoubtedly the definitive study in terms of policy development in the UK and the USA.Major sources of data on all UK New...
View Article7.4 Conclusion
Despite their very considerable differences, and the very different kinds of evidence they draw upon, it is clear from these brief exchanges between theoretical frameworks that ‘the personal’ and...
View Article7.3 The importance of the individual and gender: post-structuralism and feminism
Reversing the argument, we can begin from post-structuralist theories of governmentality. We might put the case that it is those who ‘act on the actions of others’ at ground level who shape personal...
View Article7.2 The importance of the market and the state: neo-liberalism and neo-Marxism
To begin with neo-liberalism, it is a key premise that the market is the primary means of coordinating economic activity, including the allocation of people to jobs. This assumes that rational actors...
View Article7.1 Introduction
The theoretical interpretations in Section 6 of how NDYP ‘met’ Mandy's life offer important insights, but none provides a definitive interpretation – and all require evaluation that looks critically at...
View Article6 A short biography of Mandy: comparing theories about work and welfare
Figure 7: Exclusion from welfare: the price of resistance?Mandy's biography has some striking parallels with Tamarla Owens', but also some clear differences from it. It comes from an evaluation report...
View Article5 Personal Advisers, personal lives
What is clear from a wide range of New Deal evaluations (Dawson et al., 2000; O'Connor et al., 2001; Lewis et al., 2000) is that PAs provide a critical interface between the programme and its clients....
View Article4.4 Finding ‘the personal’ in policy: responses, refusals and...
The reservation wage is one of many meeting points between personal lives and social policies. Personal lives fundamentally condition the rate of pay at which everyone individually decides they can or...
View Article4.3 Neo-Marxist interpretations of welfare to work
Neo-Marxists interpret welfare-to-work programmes as doubly alienating. First, the programmes deny workers control over the conditions of their ‘employment’ by forcibly constructing their relations...
View Article4.2 Neo-liberal interpretations of welfare to work
Neo-liberalism begins from an emphasis on the free market, individual freedom and responsibility. Neo-liberal approaches use the ‘less eligibility’ principle. Welfare is thought to distort ‘free’...
View Article4.1 Looking at the evidence
Some analysis of the data shown in Figures 4 (a) and 4 (b) is needed to set it in a wider context. We need to know how many openings were created after the NDYP was launched, who participates in the...
View Article3 Personal agency, participation and refusal: gathering evidence
While it is difficult to exaggerate the impact of this construction of ‘welfare dependency’, particularly in the USA, this construction does not go unchallenged. A very wide range of groups of people...
View Article2.2 Rationales for conditional entitlement to welfare
The contingent relation between work and welfare has moved – unevenly over time and place – between extremes of conditionality and separation, with long periods of more complex relations that varied...
View Article2.1 Background and historical overview
As we saw in Section 1, everyday talk, public discourse and political debates sometimes treat the concepts of ‘welfare’ and ‘work’ as separate spheres of activity, or even binary opposites: welfare or...
View Article1 Welfare, work and social policy: an overview
On 29 February 2000, a 6-year-old boy in his first year at Buell School, Beecher, in the town of Flint, Michigan, in the USA, took a .32 calibre handgun to school and shot 6-year-old Michaela Roland...
View ArticleLearning outcomes
By the end of this unit you will be able to:outline the ways in which the relations between work and welfare are made and remade in different places and at different times;explain how these changing...
View ArticleIntroduction
This unit is an adapted extract from the course Personal lives and social policy (DD305)
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