Marketisation of Welfare-To-Work in Ireland : Governing Activation at the Street-Level / Michael McGann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McGann, Michael, author.

Series:

Policy Press shorts. Research.

Policy Press shorts. Research

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Unemployed--Services for.

Unemployed.

Welfare economics.

Welfare recipients.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 181 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Bristol Policy Press 2023

Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2022.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book 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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy

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ISBN:

1-4473-6707-3

OCLC:

1394871646