Gebundenes Buch

Frontline Delivery of Welfare-to-Work Policies in Europe

Activating the Unemployed

Herausgeber: Berkel, Rik Van; Kupka, Peter; Caswell, Dorte

Beschreibung

Frontline work plays a crucial role in determining what welfare-to-work practically means and how they affect the lives of the people they target, yet few books have deliberatively focused on comparing what happens when professional social workers/welfare to work actors meet clients. Pioneering the provision of scholarly reflections on both theoretical and policy relevance of studying frontline practices of delivering activation, internationally renowned researchers present the first systematic comparative analysis of how welfare-to-work/activation policies are actually delivered by frontline staff in selected EU countries and in the United States.

Autor

Rik van Berkel is an associate professor at the Utrecht School of Governance, Utrecht University, the Netherlands. His research interests are situated on the interface of social policy, public administration and public organization studies, and include welfare state transformations, implementing new models for the provision of social services, and processes of change in public organizations. Dorte Caswell is an associate professor at the Department of Sociology and Social Work, Aalborg University, Denmark. She is the head of SAB, a research group focusing on social work at the frontline of active labour market and social policy. Her research focuses on social work under the canopy of active labour market and social policy. Peter Kupka is a senior researcher at the Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany. His research interests include processes of counselling and job placement, the situation of - and case work for - unemployed persons with mental health problems. Flemming Larsen is a professor at the Centre for Labour Market Research (CARMA), Aalborg University, Denmark. His research focuses on labour market and social policy. One major research topic has been labour market models. Another important field of research is analyses of labour market and social policy reforms, studying changes (and trends) in policies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 479g
• ISBN-13: 9781138908376
• ISBN-10: 1138908371
• Artikelnr.: 43680200