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Activating the Unemployed A Comparative Appraisal of Work-Oriented Policies
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Routledge
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Routledge
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The last decade has witnessed a conspicuous alteration in policies protecting unemployed people in modern welfare states. Social policies are increasingly designed to encourage economic independence. Policy makers have introduced a wide range of reforms linking disability, unemployment, and welfare programs cash benefits to work-oriented measures.Welfare policies are being framed by a new emphasis... Read more
1: Evaluating Welfare to Work in the United Kingdom; 2: Creeping Workfare Policies: The Case of Italy; 3: Work-Oriented Reforms: New Directions in New Zealand; 4: From Welfare to Work Fare: Dutch Policies in the Nineties; 5: Welfare-to-Work or Work-to-Welfare: The French Case; 6: Moving People from Welfare to Work in the United States; 7: The Emergence of Active Policy in Switzerland; 8: Sweden—Still a Civilized Version of Workfare?; 9: The Norwegian Work Approach in the 1990s: Rhetoric and Reform; 10: Activating the Unemployed: The Challenge Ahead
Biography
Neil Gilbert, Rebecca A. Van Voorhis
