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The Politics Of Unemployment Policy In Britain
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Book Synopsis The Politics of Unemployment Policy in Britain by : Jay Wiggan
Download or read book The Politics of Unemployment Policy in Britain written by Jay Wiggan and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2024-07-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an account of the evolution of social security and employment policy and governance in Britain between 1973 and 2023. It explains how this remaking of policy and governance shaped, and was shaped by, the transformation of the labour market and power of claimants and workers. Advancing a class-centred explanation, the text situates contemporary working age active labour market policy as the contingent outcome of a long struggle over curtailment of labour autonomy and the challenges arising from policy ‘success’ for securing social cohesion, state legitimacy and better economic conditions for growth.
Book Synopsis Actively Seeking Work? by : Desmond King
Download or read book Actively Seeking Work? written by Desmond King and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1995-03-15 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integrating archival and documentary materials with an analysis of the sources of political support for work-welfare programmes, this work examines the reasons behind the lack of effective training and work programmes for the unemployed in Great Britain and the United States.
Book Synopsis Unemployment in the UK by : Jeremy Moon
Download or read book Unemployment in the UK written by Jeremy Moon and published by Aldershot, Hants, England ; Brookfield, Vt., U.S.A. : Gower. This book was released on 1985 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discussion of employment policy responses to and political aspects of high unemployment in the UK - discusses political party policies, employment creation and wages subsidy schemes, youth employment and training policies, employment services, local level initiatives and work attitudes; makes comparisons with the USA, Sweden, Germany, Federal Republic and France. Bibliographys, organigram, statistical tables.
Book Synopsis The New Politics of Unemployment by : Hugh Compston
Download or read book The New Politics of Unemployment written by Hugh Compston and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The problem of mass unemployment in western Europe has persisted since the early 1980s. Clearly the policies implemented by national governments and the EU have not been successful in adequately tackling this important social, economic and political issue. The New Politics of Unemployment provides a thorough comparative analysis of the present situation. It looks at how the orthodox unemployment policies of contemporary governments have failed and what new policies might be introduced. A number of radical unemployment policies, from Germany, France, Italy, Britain, Spain, Denmark, Norway, Switzerland and the EU, are outlined. These are investigated with a view to identifying the conditions under which they might become standard components of national and EU strategies to bring down unemployment. This book is the first comparative study of the politics of policy innovation in the area of unemployment. It will be an important addition to the literature of European public policy and important reading for students of comparative European politics and economics.
Book Synopsis British Unemployment 1919-1939 by : W. R. Garside
Download or read book British Unemployment 1919-1939 written by W. R. Garside and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-06-20 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1990 book is a comprehensive study of government reactions to the interwar unemployment problem. Drawing upon an extensive range of primary and secondary sources, it analyses official ameliorative policy towards unemployment and contemporary reactions to such intervention.
Book Synopsis Politics and Economic Policy in the UK Since 1964 by : Michael J. Stewart
Download or read book Politics and Economic Policy in the UK Since 1964 written by Michael J. Stewart and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Politics and Economic Policy in the UK since 1964: The Jekyll and Hyde Years examines the economic policies that have been pursued by successive governments in Britain since 1964 and how such policies have been influenced by two sets of factors: politics and Keynesian demand management. The two basic failures of British economic policy since 1964 are highlighted, namely, the failure to establish a workable long-term incomes policy and the failure to achieve a high and stable rate of industrial investment. This book is comprised of seven chapters and begins with a background on the British economy until 1964, with emphasis on the economic problems faced by the country, including rising prices. The four basic objectives of economic policy to which both Labor and Conservative parties subscribe—full employment, a reasonably rapid growth rate, stable prices, and a satisfactory balance of payments—are discussed. The next chapter focuses on the Labor Party's 1964 Election Manifesto and how the economy fared from October 1964 to March 1966. Subsequent chapters evaluate the economic policies of the Labour government during the period April 1966-June 1970, including devaluation and incomes policy; economic policies adopted by the Conservative government from June 1970 to February 1974; and the country's economic situation since February 1974. The final chapter considers four factors—structural, technical, managerial, and political—that were responsible for much of what went wrong with the British economy since 1964. This monograph will be of interest to economists, political scientists, politicians, and economic policymakers.
Book Synopsis Power, Politics and Policy-making by : Zhengwei Wei
Download or read book Power, Politics and Policy-making written by Zhengwei Wei and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Modern Social Politics in Britain and Sweden by : Hugh Heclo
Download or read book Modern Social Politics in Britain and Sweden written by Hugh Heclo and published by ECPR Press. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Social Politics in Britain and Sweden was the winner of the 1974 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Book Award for the best book published in the United States on government, politics, or international affairs. “[Heclo] painstakingly analyses the evolution of income maintenance policies over the past 100 years in Britain and Sweden in an effort to explain why these policies evolved as they did. He thus poses a question of fundamental importance to both policy and political science and he produces an answer which is neither obvious nor dramatic but which is original, discriminating, and persuasive. His book is an unusually judicious combination of political theory, historical research, comparative method, and policy analysis. And not to be overlooked is the fact that all this is expressed in a crisp, literate prose style, of the sort which has unfortunately become, somewhat rare in our profession. Modern Social Politics represents a major contribution to the discipline on not one but several fronts and stands as a model of how political scientists can tease out of history answers to the question: why?” Samuel P. Huntington, Chairman of the Award Committee
Book Synopsis Politics Of Training Market by : Brendan Evans
Download or read book Politics Of Training Market written by Brendan Evans and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Book Synopsis The Transformation of British Welfare Policy by : Tom O'Grady
Download or read book The Transformation of British Welfare Policy written by Tom O'Grady and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 2010 the UK has enacted radical welfare reforms that have led to greater poverty, homelessness, indebtedness, and foodbank use. It has diverged from other European countries experiencing similar economic and social trends, who have not enacted such dramatic cuts and reforms. Until recently, however, the changes proved very popular with the public, who increasingly hated the welfare system and viewed its users as lazy, undeserving, and likely to be cheating. In this book, Tom O'Grady focuses on policies that provide relief from unemployment, poverty, and disability to uncover why Britain's welfare system has been reformed so radically and why, until recently, the public enthusiastically endorsed this programme. Using a comparative and historical perspective, he traces the evolution of British welfare policy, politics, discourse, and public opinion since the 1980s, and argues that from the 1990s a long-term change in discourse from both politicians and the media caused the British public to turn against welfare by 2010. That, combined with the financial crisis, left the system uniquely vulnerable to cuts. This book explores the roots of public opinion on the welfare system, the motives of politicians who have revolutionized it, and the ways in which the system and its users have been spoken about. It is an account of how the public came to consider deserving recipients of help as scroungers; of when and why politicians and the media vilified them; of political parties whose discourse and policies were transformed, almost overnight; and of Britain's journey from providing welfare as generously as the average European country in the 1970s to becoming an outlier today.
Book Synopsis Britain in Decline by : Andrew Gamble
Download or read book Britain in Decline written by Andrew Gamble and published by Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan. This book was released on 1985 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Adjusting to Democracy by : Rodney Lowe
Download or read book Adjusting to Democracy written by Rodney Lowe and published by Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford Univesity Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ministry of Labour was the department responsible for employment policy, industrial relations, and unemployment relief at the time of the General Strike in Britain. This history of the Ministry not only illustrates the changing nature of government following the advent of universal suffrage in 1918, but also provides a comprehensive account of Britain's interwar policies.
Book Synopsis Handbook of Public Policy in Europe by : Hugh Compston
Download or read book Handbook of Public Policy in Europe written by Hugh Compston and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2004 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation "The Handbook of Public Policy in Europe provides an invaluable overview of the content of public policy across the full range of policy areas in Britain, France and Germany. It is designed to be used by students, experts and practitioners both to help compare public policy across different policy areas and countries and as a source of information on individual policy areas in individual countries."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Book Synopsis The Moral Economy of Activation by : Magnus Paulsen Hansen
Download or read book The Moral Economy of Activation written by Magnus Paulsen Hansen and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2019-09-11 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Activation policies which promote and enforce labour market participation continue to proliferate in Europe and constitute the reform blueprint from centre-left to centre-right, as well as for most international organizations. Through an in-depth study of four major reforms in Denmark and France, this book maps how co-existing ideas are mobilised to justify, criticise and reach activation compromises and how their morality sediments into the instruments governing the unemployed. By rethinking the role of ideas and morality in policy changes, this book illustrates how the moral economy of activation leads to a permanent behaviourist testing of the unemployed in public debate as well as in local jobcentres.
Book Synopsis The Neoliberal Age? by : Aled Davies
Download or read book The Neoliberal Age? written by Aled Davies and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries are commonly characterised as an age of ‘neoliberalism’ in which individualism, competition, free markets and privatisation came to dominate Britain’s politics, economy and society. This historical framing has proven highly controversial, within both academia and contemporary political and public debate. Standard accounts of neoliberalism generally focus on the influence of political ideas in reshaping British politics; according to this narrative, neoliberalism was a right-wing ideology, peddled by political economists, think-tanks and politicians from the 1930s onwards, which finally triumphed in the 1970s and 1980s. The Neoliberal Age? suggests this narrative is too simplistic. Where the standard story sees neoliberalism as right-wing, this book points to some left-wing origins, too; where the standard story emphasises the agency of think-tanks and politicians, this book shows that other actors from the business world were also highly significant. Where the standard story can suggest that neoliberalism transformed subjectivities and social lives, this book illuminates other forces which helped make Britain more individualistic in the late twentieth century. The analysis thus takes neoliberalism seriously but also shows that it cannot be the only explanatory framework for understanding contemporary Britain. The book showcases cutting-edge research, making it useful to researchers and students, as well as to those interested in understanding the forces that have shaped our recent past.
Book Synopsis The Politics of Unemployment in Europe by : Marco Giugni
Download or read book The Politics of Unemployment in Europe written by Marco Giugni and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a state-of-the-art discussion of the political issues surrounding unemployment in Europe. Its unique combination offers both a policy and institutional perspective, whilst studying the viewpoint of individual civil society members engaging in collective action on the issue of joblessness. It is the result of Marco Giugni’s three year cross-national comparative research project, financed by the European Commission, united with hand picked contributions from invited experts. Throughout his study he focuses on how the EU approaches national unemployment, the main national differences in talk about unemployment and unemployment policy, and how the representatives of the unemployed produce and coordinate demands in relation to unemployment policy. This book contains a number of genuinely cross-national chapters along with sections on specific national cases, namely the UK, Ireland, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium and Sweden.
Book Synopsis Austerity, Welfare and Work by : Etherington, David
Download or read book Austerity, Welfare and Work written by Etherington, David and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Etherington provides bold and fresh perspectives on the link between welfare policy and employment relations as he assesses their fundamental impact on social inequalities. Exploring how reforms, including Universal Credit, have reinforced employment and social insecurity, he assesses the role of NGOs, trade unions and policymakers in challenging this increasingly work-focused welfare agenda. Drawing on international and national case studies, the book reviews developments, including rising job insecurity, low pay and geographical inequalities, considered integral to neoliberal approaches to social spending. Etherington sets out the possibilities and challenges of alternative approaches and progressive new paths for welfare, the labour market and social rights.
