Beyond the workfare state : : Labour markets, equalities and human rights /

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

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 discrimina...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
MitwirkendeR:
Bellis, Anne,
Cairns, Teresa,
Carpenter, Mick,
Clayton, Pamela,
Cleaver, Phil,
Freda, Belinda,
Griffin, Colin,
McCarthy, Rhian,
McGrath, Susan,
Merrill, Barbara,
Piette, Brec’hed,
Sheibani, Azar,
Speeden, Stuart,
Walters, Nick,
Watson, Debby,
Wickham, Claire,
Williams, Val,
Šniukaité, Inga,
HerausgeberIn:
Carpenter, Mick,
Freda, Belinda,
Speeden, Stuart,
Place / Publishing House:Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2007]
©2007
Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (200 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • List of tables and figures
  • Notes on contributors
  • Introduction: towards a better workfare state, or one beyond it?
  • Case studies in labour market discrimination and inequalities
  • Beyond the ghost town? The ‘promising practices’ of community-based initiatives in Coventry
  • “It’s about having a life, isn’t it?”: employability, discrimination and disabled people
  • Between work and tradition: minority ethnic women in North West England
  • Discrimination and geographical exclusion: a case study of North West Wales
  • Out of the picture? Sexual orientation and labour market discrimination
  • Youth discrimination and labour market access: from transitions to capabilities?
  • Employability in the third age: a qualitative study of older people in the Glasgow labour market
  • Refugees and the labour market: refugee sector practice in the ‘employability’ paradigm
  • Implications for wider policies
  • Origins and effects of New Labour’s workfare state: modernisation or variations on old themes?
  • Capabilities, human rights and the challenge to workfare
  • Index

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