Peter Sunley, Ron Martin, Corinne Nativel

Putting Workfare in Place

Local Labour Markets and the New Deal

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The New Deal for Young People, introduced in April 1998, has been a flagship of the Labour Government. This book is the first comprehensive and authoritative analysis of the New Deal and examines how far the programme has succeeded in responding to the diversity of conditions in local labour markets across the UK. The book argues that profound differences in local labour market conditions have exerted a telling influence on the New Deal's achievements. It proposes that contemporary labour market policy should not only be based on theories and models of the national economy and of individual behaviour, but that policy design also needs to recognise the importance of the local and regional labour market contexts which shape its viability and outcomes. By situating policy in this way, the book not only examines how workfare has been put in place in the UK, but also puts place into workfare.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 554g
• ISBN-13: 9781405107853
• ISBN-10: 1405107855
• Artikelnr.: 21797665

Autorenporträt

Peter Sunley is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Southampton. He has authored around 50 articles on economic and labour geography and on local and regional economic development. Ron Martin is Professor of Economic Geography at the University of Cambridge, Professorial Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and Fellow of the Cambridge-MIT Institute. He has published more than 20 books including Geographies of Labour Market Inequality (2003)and more than 150 articles on regional economic growth, the geography of finance, labour geography, and the geographies of state policy. Corinne Nativel is Research Fellow in the Department of Geography and Geomatics at the University of Glasgow. Her work centres on welfare restructuring, labour market and social policy with a special focus on youth and gender. She has published several books and articles including Economic Transition, Unemployment and Active Labour Market Policy (2004).

Inhaltsangabe

Series Editors' Preface vi

Preface vii

List of Tables ix

List of Figures xi

1 Locating the New Deal 1

2 The Geographies of Worklessness 26

3 Local Disparities in the Performance of Welfare-to-Work 59

4 Welfare-to-Work in Local Context 99

5 A Geography of Mismatch? Employers, Jobs and Training 127

6 Localising Welfare-to-Work? 155

7 Conclusions 183

Notes 208

Bibliography 212

Index 231

Rezensionen

"Not only examines how workfare has been put into place in theUnited Kingdom, but also puts the place into workfare."
International Social Security Review

"Putting Workfare in Place is a diligently researched andempirically rich account of the significant changes toBritain's work-welfare regime. Policymakers need to be awareof how institutional spaces and labour market conditions interactto produce local knowledges and Sunley, Martin and Nativel provideus with compelling evidence to question national assumptions ofsocio-economic development."

Martin Jones, Director of the Institute of Geography andEarth Sciences, University of Wales, Aberystwyth

"This book lays out a thoughtful assessment of the UK's New Dealprogram and the extent to which its underlying theory and ideologyadequately reflect the geographies of unemployment. The authors doa masterful job, and policymakers, academics, policy advisers, andpoliticians will find this book both compelling andconsidered."

Amy Glasmeier, E Willard Miller Professor of EconomicGeography, The Pennsylvania State University

"A thought-provoking book, raising important questions about theimpact of geography not only in shaping labour markets but also inconditioning the success of workfare policies ... Aninspiration for further research into the local dimensions ofworklessness."
Michelle Baddeley, University of Cambridge