Bureaucratic Manoeuvres : The Contested Administration of the Unemployed / John Grundy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grundy, John, author.

Series:

Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manpower policy--Canada.

Manpower policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (178 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In Bureaucratic Manoeuvres, John Grundy examines profound transformations in the governance of unemployment in Canada. While policy makers previously approached unemployment as a social and economic problem to be addressed through macroeconomic policies, recent labour market policy reforms have placed much more emphasis on the supposedly deficient employability of the unemployed themselves, a troubling shift that deserves close, critical attention. Tracing a behind-the-scenes history of public employment services in Canada, Bureaucratic Manoeuvres shows just how difficult it has been for administrators and frontline staff to govern unemployment as a problem of individual employability. Drawing on untapped government records, it sheds much-needed light on internal bureaucratic struggles over the direction of labour market policy in Canada and makes a key contribution to Canadian political science, economics, public administration, and sociology.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Acronyms

1. Introduction

2. Conceptualizing the Limits of Activation Policy

3. "More Than a Placement Service": The Transient High Modernism of "Manpower" Planning, 1965-1976

4. Making and Unmaking Front-Line Professionalism, 1977-1990

5. Within Reach of the "What Works Best Solution": Evidence-Based Activation, 1994-2000

6. Towards a Culture of Results, 1996-2000

Conclusions

References

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Apr 2019)

ISBN:

1-4875-3024-2

OCLC:

1089195426