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BUYING AND SELLING THE POOR ventures behind the scenes of the
multibillion-dollar welfare-to-work system, offering new insights
into how Australia responds to unemployment and disadvantage. As
the authors tell the story of four local employment offices, they
paint a vivid picture of a critically important social service
which many people are aware of but which few properly understand.
They also reveal the wider impacts that processes of marketisation
and welfare reform have had on these frontline services over
decades, and how the work of frontline staff and service providers
has been transformed. BUYING AND SELLING THE POOR looks closely at
how these services operate, why some succeed where others fail, and
what can be learned from the stories of staff and clients who have
navigated the system. Three decades into this market experiment,
how well are we doing in supporting our most vulnerable citizens to
get back to work?
The debate about our treatment of nonhuman animals has been
traditionally dominated by moral philosophers, and the crucially
important role of politics has been hitherto neglected. This
innovative edited collection seeks to redress the imbalance by
interrogating some vital questions about this so-called 'political
turn' in animal ethics.. The questions tackled include: What can
political philosophy tell us about our moral obligations to
animals? Should the boundaries of the demos be expanded to allow
for the inclusion of animals? What kind of political system is most
appropriate for the protection of animals? Does the protection of
animals require limits to democracy, as in constitutional devices,
or a usurping of democracy, as in direct action? What can the work
of political scientists tell us about the governance of animal
welfare? Leading scholars in the field explain how engaging with
politics, in its empirical and normative guises, can throw much
needed light on the question of how we treat animals, and how we
ought to treat them.
The debate about our treatment of nonhuman animals has been
traditionally dominated by moral philosophers, and the crucially
important role of politics has been hitherto neglected. This
innovative edited collection seeks to redress the imbalance by
interrogating some vital questions about this so-called 'political
turn' in animal ethics.. The questions tackled include: What can
political philosophy tell us about our moral obligations to
animals? Should the boundaries of the demos be expanded to allow
for the inclusion of animals? What kind of political system is most
appropriate for the protection of animals? Does the protection of
animals require limits to democracy, as in constitutional devices,
or a usurping of democracy, as in direct action? What can the work
of political scientists tell us about the governance of animal
welfare? Leading scholars in the field explain how engaging with
politics, in its empirical and normative guises, can throw much
needed light on the question of how we treat animals, and how we
ought to treat them.
Getting Welfare to Work traces the radical reform of the
Australian, UK, and Dutch public employment services systems.
Starting with major changes from 1998, this book examines how each
national system has moved from traditional public services towards
more privately provided and market-based methods. Each of these
three countries developed innovative forms of contracting-out and
complex incentive regimes to motivate welfare clients and to
control the agencies charged with helping them. The Australian
system pioneered the use of large, national contracts for services
to all unemployed jobseekers. By the end of our study period this
system was entirely outsourced to private agencies. Meanwhile the
UK elected a form of contestability under Blair and Cameron,
culminating in a new public-private financing model known as the
'Work Programme'. The Dutch had evolved their far more complex
system from a traditional public service approach to one using a
variety of specific contracts for private agencies. These
innovations have changed welfare delivery and created both
opportunities and new constraints for policy makers. Getting
Welfare to Work tells the story of these bold policy reforms from
the perspective of street-level bureaucrats. Interviews and surveys
in each country over a fifteen year period are used to critically
appraise this central pillar of the welfare state. The original
data analysed in Getting Welfare to Work provides a unique
comparative perspective on three intriguing systems. It points to
new ways of thinking about modes of governance, system design,
regulation of public services, and so-called activation of welfare
clients. It also sheds light on the predicament of third sector
organisations that contract to governments through competitive
tenders with precise performance monitoring, raising questions of
'mission drift'.
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