Beyond the workfare state : labour markets, equalities and human rights / edited by Mick Carpenter, Belinda Freda and Stuart Speeden.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Carpenter, Mick.

Freda, Belinda.

Speeden, Stuart.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discrimination in employment.

Sex discrimination in employment.

Age discrimination in employment.

Labor laws and legislation.

Labor market.

Right to labor.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 192 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Policy, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Beyond the Workfare State" explores equality, discrimination and human rights in relation to employability and 'welfare-to-work' policies. It draws extensively on new research from the SEQUAL Project, undertaken for the European Social Fund, which investigated seven dimensions of discrimination in a labour market that is theoretically 'open to all'. The book provides an overall analysis of policy shifts and presents a wide and distinctive range of illustrative studies that give voice to a variety of potentially marginalised groups. Chapters deal with obstacles to labour-market access around each of the following themes: gender and class; disability; race and ethnicity; geographical exclusion; sexual orientation; the problems of old and young people; and refugees. The authors draw attention to localised examples of promising practice, but also connect these to a broader 'human rights' agenda, linking them to changing legislative and governance frameworks. Its scope covers the whole of Great Britain and it shows how devolution in Scotland and Wales, and at the regional level in England, is creating new possibilities for mainstreaming good practice in this key area. The book will be of great interest to academics and students in social policy and related fields. It will also be valuable for professionals, policy makers and practitioners in the regeneration, community development and anti-discrimination fields, particularly in the UK but also in Europe and beyond..

Contents:

7. Youth discrimination and labour market access: from transitions to capabilities?8. Employability in the third age: a qualitative study of older people in the Glasgow labour market; 9. Refugees and the labour market:refugee sector practice in the 'employability' paradigm; 10. Origins and effects of New Labour's workfare state:modernisation or variations on old themes?; 11. Capabilities, human rights and the challenge to workfare; Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 19 Jan 2022).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611736422

9781447301547

1447301544

9781281736420

1281736422

9781847423122

1847423124

OCLC:

476249639