The moral economy of activation : ideas, politics and policies / Magnus Paulsen Hansen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hansen, Magnus Paulsen, author.

Series:

Research in comparative & global social policy.

Research in comparative & global social policy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Unemployed--Government policy.

Unemployed.

Unemployment--Government policy.

Unemployment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 238 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2019.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Activation policies which promote and enforce labour market participation continue to proliferate in Europe and constitute the reform blueprint from centre-left to centre-right, as well as for most international organizations. Through an in-depth study of four major reforms in Denmark and France, this book maps how co-existing ideas are mobilised to justify, criticise and reach activation compromises and how their morality sediments into the instruments governing the unemployed. By rethinking the role of ideas and morality in policy changes, this book illustrates how the moral economy of activation leads to a permanent behaviourist testing of the unemployed in public debate as well as in local jobcentres.

Contents:

The active turn(s); PART I: MODELLING; Tests, compromises and policy change; Cities of unemployment; PART II: ACTIVATION REFORMS; From looking backwards to forwards; Turning solutions into s̀tructural' problems; Testing thresholds; Intimate scandals; PART III: PATTERNS; Chemotherapy; Infinite testing

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 19 Mar 2021).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781447349983

1447349989

9781447350156

1447350154

9781447349976

1447349970

OCLC:

1114969630