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Activation or Workfare? Governance and the Neo-Liberal Convergence (Hardcover)
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Activation or Workfare? Governance and the Neo-Liberal Convergence (Hardcover)
Series: International Policy Exchange Series
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The last decade of the 20th century was marked by a shift in how
welfare-states deal with those at the bottom of the income ladder.
This shift involved the introduction/strengthening of
work-obligations as a condition for receiving minimum income
benefits - which, in some countries, was complemented by efforts to
help recipients return to the labour market, namely through the
investment in active labour market policies (ALMP). Based on
case-studies of developments in the US and eight European nations
(UK, Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, Germany, France, Portugal and
the Czech Republic), this book argues that this first set of
reforms was followed by a second wave of reforms that, whilst
deepening the path towards the focus on work, brings important
innovations- be it the tools used to help recipients back to the
labour markets (ex., financial incentives) and in how activation
policies are delivered (ex., integration of benefit and employment
services). Looking at the array of developments introduced during
this period, we discern two key trends. The first concerns the
strengthening of the role of the market in the governance of
activation, which is visible in the strengthening of the focus on
work, or the marketisation of employment services. The second,
concerns a move towards the individualisation of service delivery,
visible in the expansion of the use of personal action plans or in
efforts to streamline service delivery. Finally, we show that the
onset of the sovereign debt crisis in Europe, has triggered a new
wave of reforms. Whilst tentative only, our analysis points to a
worrying trend of the curtailment or benefits (Portugal) and
activation services (Netherlands, Czech Republic) to minimum income
recipients and, in parallel, a further deepening of the focus on
work-conditionality (UK and Norway).
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