Steps to compulsion within British labour market policies

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ID23158237
AuthorsHeather Trickey (0000-0002-3707-456X), Robert Toovey Walker (0000-0002-5691-7606), Robert Walker (0000-0002-7763-3784)
Year2001
Pages181-213
Publication date2001-01-24
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
Venue'An offer you can't refuse' (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPolicy Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1332/policypress/9781861341952.003.0007
OpenAlexW4205678162
ISBN9781861341952
LanguageEN
Citations received10

This chapter talks about the trend towards compulsory work-for-benefit policies in the UK. It also focuses on the development of these policies by an ideologically social-democratic government operating within a ‘liberal’ welfare regime. The chapter takes a look at the New Deal programmes, which are comprised of three policy strands. It describes the structure of the New Deal for Young People, and points to some of the normative underpinnings of the strategy of the New Labour government towards ‘workless’ people. It also considers supply-side solutions to unemployment and paid work as a desirable goal for all and as a solution to poverty.

Active labour market policies · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Government (linguistics) · Ideology · Labour economics · Market economy · Normative · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Social democracy · Unemployment · Welfare · Work (physics) · Engineering · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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