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 |
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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