The Marketisation of Welfare-To-Work in Ireland

Governing Activation at the Street-Level
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4473-6705-5
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 190 Seiten, Format (B × H): 211 mm x 133 mm, Gewicht: 308 g

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence

This book assesses how the practice of contracting-out public employment services via competitive tendering and Payment-by-Results is transforming welfare-to-work in Ireland.

It offers Ireland’s introduction of a welfare-to-work market as a case study that speaks to wider international debates in social and public policy about the role of market governance in intensifying the turn towards more regulatory and conditional welfare models on the ground.

It draws on unprecedented access to, and extensive survey and interview research with, frontline employment services staff, combined with in-depth interviews with policy officials, organisational managers and jobseekers participating in activation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McGann, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wohlfahrtsökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Dienste, Soziale Organisationen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction

2. Welfare Reform in Post-Crisis Ireland

3. Exploring Double Activation

4. Workfare Meets Marketisation

5. Remodelling Agency at the Street-Level

6. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

McGann, Michael
Michael McGann is Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Melbourne, Australia.