Welfare Conditionality and Blaming the Unemployed
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11104223 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Mcgann (0000-0002-2452-6053, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, corresponding author), Phuc Nguyen (0000-0001-7711-2623, La Trobe University, Shepparton, Victoria, Australia), Mark Considine (University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 466-494 |
| Publication date | 2020-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Administration & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0095-3997 • E-ISSN: 1552-3039 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0095399719839362 |
| OpenAlex | W2926648500 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 26 |
| References cited | 38 |
Welfare recipients are increasingly subject to various forms of work-related conditionality that, critics argue, presuppose a “pathological” theory of unemployment that stigmatizes welfare recipients as de-motivated to work. Drawing on surveys of Australian frontline employment services staff, we examine the extent to which caseworkers attribute being on benefits to recipients’ lack of motivation, and whether this problem figuration of unemployment is associated with a “harder edged” approach to activation. We find that it is, although it is diminishing. This reflects how frontline discretion has become more routinized from the application of more intensive forms of performance monitoring and compliance auditing
Audit · Compliance (psychology · Conditionality · Discretion · Economic growth · Economics · Labour economics · Market economy · Political science · Public economics · Sociology · Subject (documents · Unemployment · Welfare · Welfare reform · Work (physics · Accounting · Employment and Welfare Studies · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Psychology · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Social Psychology
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Street-level bureaucrats’ attitudes towards clients in discretionary decision-making
Welfare Conditionality and Social Identity Effect Mechanisms and the Case of Immigrant Support
The politics of piloting. The case of minimum income schemes in European cities
A Hidden Cost
Checking Activation at the Door
The Age-Negotiated Configuration of Welfare Conditionality
A Multi-Dimensional View of Stigma Experienced by Lone Parents in Irish Homeless and Employment Services
Guaranteed Income as Targeted Welfare? Mechanisms and Conditions Linking Income Security, Health, and Crime for Patients in Forensic Psychiatry
Searching for “the usual suspects”
Unpacking the effects of burdensome state actions on citizens' policy perceptions
When means‐testing meets work‐testing
Quid pro quo? A cross-national analysis of European citizens’ opinions toward the universality and conditionality of a basic income
Public service supply chain management
Towards digital dole parole
Towards policies of dignity? The German Participation Opportunities Act as a response to long-term unemployment
"Job seeker" experiences of punitive activation in Job Services Australia
Australian unemployed workers’ experiences of being parked and creamed by employment providers
Australian employment services
Not seeing the elephant in the room
Networks, case managers, and the job‐search experiences of unemployed people
Detective Work and Invisible Assessments
Veilederblikket
The Complementarity of Programme Logic and Critical Systems Heuristics
It's Not a Pattern of Behavior
You had to be the Detective
Getting Welfare to Work
Workfare
Work and the Welfare State
What's Wrong with Workfare?
Employment services in an age of e-government
Disciplining the Poor
On ‘Activation Workers' Perceptions’
Welfare reform, increased conditionality and discretion
Welfare-to-Work Reform, Power and Inequality
Rethinking Social Policy and Society
Social Citizenship and Workfare in the US and Western Europe
The Rudd Government's Employment Services Agenda
Motivating the Unemployed? Attitudes at the Front Line
Australian Workers’ Narratives about Emergency Relief and Employment Service Clients
Workfare as welfare
Policies and discourses of poverty during a time of recession and austerity
Feeling motivated yet? Long‐term unemployed people's perspectives on the implementation of workfare in Australia
Mutuality, Mead & McClure
Neoliberal subjectivities and the behavioural focus on income management
Implementing public employment policy
Welfare State Regimes and Caseworkers’ Problem Explanation
From Street‐Level to System‐Level Bureaucracies
Personalization and Street‐level Practice in Activation
Moving Beyond Discretion and Outcomes
The Organization of Discipline
State Agent or Citizen Agent
Policy Work
New public management and welfare-to-work in Australia
Automating Inequality
Who's to Blame? The Identity Talk of Welfare-To-Work Program Managers
Evidence from the 'Frontline'? An Ethnographic Problematisation of Welfare-to-Work Administrator Opinions
Markets, Networks and the New Welfare State
Activation Workers' Perceptions of Their Long-term Unemployed Clients' Attitudes towards Employment
Activation Work
Welfare-to-work, Agency and Personal Responsibility
Quasi-Markets and Service Delivery Flexibility Following a Decade of Employment Assistance Reform in Australia
| Unique citing works | 26 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 26 |